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  • If you find additional information like settings that work around the problem, remember it would be useful to add those details to the Chrome bug report too.

  • Why does it matter? Surely actual players will run either the x86 or x64 builds only and not switch between them?

    If you trust the Steam Hardware Survey to be representative of your own audience, that is showing that virtually all Windows systems are 64-bit, so you probably won't miss much if you go x64 only.

  • My best advice is: make measurements and be scientific about it. I regularly see weird claims and things that sound technically impossible. People often do things like make multiple changes and then misattribute the thing that actually helped, or make mistakes and misattribute the thing that is making it worse. Software systems are complex, results are not always what you'd think, and even experienced software engineers lose track of the things they've changed along the way.

    If you think something is causing a performance problem, you should be able to measure it, make a single specific change, and then measure a significant improvement afterwards. If you're not doing that, it's not much better than rumour.

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  • Unfortunately this problem is generally caused by broken graphics drivers and not Construct. Try installing any available system software updates or see if you can find an update for your graphics driver.

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  • It's not currently possible for web content to limit the FPS in a way that correctly handles both CPU and GPU overload. For example if you want to limit to 30 FPS, but the GPU is overloaded and running at 25 FPS, it's not possible to handle that properly in JavaScript code without it descending in to a janky mess. You can code something that tries to skip frames or some such, but it won't handle cases like that properly.

    Star this Chrome issue to show support for proper FPS limiting in browsers.

    However if your only goal is to save battery on high-framerate mobile devices, AFAIK these devices already drop the framerate in power saving mode. So if that's your only reason to limit the FPS then I'd argue it's not necessary as it's already handled by the system.

  • Here are a few points for consideration!

    • If you are using event sheets and don't want to program, then a tool like Construct makes it possible for you to make your game whereas otherwise it could have been impossible.
    • A vast range of high-level features speed up development time a great deal, such as built-in physics, pathfinding, line-of-sight, platform movement, etc.
    • Being web-based makes it uniquely good for integrating HTML and CSS for things like forms and data tables, which can be tricky in other tools.
    • There is genuinely an identical codebase for all platforms meaning cross-platform issues amongst the supported export options are rare.
    • Browser performance is outstanding these days - many people still assume it's slow but it is in fact so fast now it can far out-perform competing tools
    • Publishing to the web provides a way around paying 15-30% of your revenue to a platform owner
    • Web technology is the future! Construct started when everyone was still using Flash, and the editor itself is fully web-based, and I believe that's the direction everything is going in long-term.

  • I don't believe we have made any changes to Construct that would cause such a large increase in the build size - it would have been a major problem for a lot of people if we had done so. In fact we've introduced features like WebP image support that allow further reducing the exported size.

    Almost all the build size is likely taken up by your own project's content - perhaps you accidentally imported some resource or perhaps even a third-party addon that increased the size a great deal.

  • Thanks, I've starred the issue so I'll also be notified of updates in case I can provide any assistance.

    I'm not sure if anyone is able to narrow it down to a specific time, or even Chrome release, where this issue first started happening (if that's the case and it hasn't been there forever), but if you could that would potentially be a key detail to help the Chrome developers figure it out, in case they made some important change to something around that time.

  • The advice doesn't say "never update Construct". It means you should not try to use source control when everyone's on different versions. The solution is to make sure everyone on your team updates the version of Construct they are using at the same time, and then everything should work fine. Construct prompts you when a new version is available, so when you first see that, just remind everyone on the team to update as well.

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  • Issues like this are tricky to deal with as it's difficult to fully follow the bug report guidelines. However if you file an issue as best you can anyway, hopefully they can look in to it. I don't believe I've ever observed this issue, and usually dealing with a bug report involves a back and forth as the developers ask questions or suggest things to try and the person affected responds to those; if I don't see the issue there's no way for me to respond to those questions, and so if I file the issue all it does is slow down the process and make it less likely to get fixed. If you post the link to the bug that's filed here I can follow it and answer any Construct-specific questions if they come up.

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