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- alastair
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Okay I bought a Lenovo gaming laptop in order to test this.

And the above comment is correct!
- The tag "--force_high_performance_gpu" allows my game to use the nvidia GPU! It runs wonderfully smooth.
- But if I also have the "export for steam" button checked, it will NOT use the nvidia GPU, and instead the weak one, and does not run as well.
Ashley should we now update the NWJS "Export for Steam" option's "--in-process-gpu" with the new one: "--force_high_performance_gpu"? I'm not sure what the old tag did, but since it's blocking laptop's GPU's from being used maybe it should be changed so the games run better for more of our Steam players.
- alastair
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There was a comment a couple years ago here with a solution:

github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/5732

I found that the --force_high_performance_gpu flag seems to make NW.js run with a discrete graphics card by default, but with the --in-process-gpu flag it will not work.

Is that a good tag we can use?

Is it okay to replace the old "in-process-gpu" which has become common for people to use?
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- alastair
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There use to be issues with people playing games on laptops with NWJS, since I think people said it wouldn't use the graphics card GPU.

Is this a problem still with nwjs 71+?

EDIT: Solution was found: https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/gaming-laptops-broken-182785#forumPost1115152
- alastair
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calminthenight thanks for the idea. I'm surprised it worked for gamerguy1234 but not for a Linux user that's complaining to me.
This is my settings, could it be something else?:
- alastair
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Continuing old topic construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/try-run-full-screen-nw-js-169783

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On my windows 11 Laptop, if I run either the win32 or win64 files and try to enter full screen mode it just windows in the top left corner

Like This

calminthenight

Did you set the resizable window option on export?

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That Worked! Thank you so much!
- alastair
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An action roguelike platformer. Started working on it years ago haha, but it's now released.

store.steampowered.com/app/2921600/Angvik_2
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- alastair
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fantastic thanks everyone!

dop2000 when I used the action to set collision cell size to 10x10 it reduces the checks down from 125000 to 800. So it seems it does that cells help a lot to reduce checks!
- alastair
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dop2000 thanks for testing too! Maybe we have to set the collision cell size first? Did you have an action doing that?
Perhaps a manual entry could help to explain this concept.
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Thank you for clarifying that it's still a thing!

I don't think I'm good at making performance tests, because when I tried doing it I get better performance when it was a subevent. 😅 So I'll just have to trust you.
- alastair
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Over a decade ago in C2 there was a new thing called "collision cells", and in order to use them you had to have your "overlapping" condition be first in the top level event (not as a subevent).

It can feel counterintuitive, because often we prefer to have other filtering conditions before doing something as expensive as a collision check. But apparently it was worth the trade off.

I couldn't find anything about this in C3 manual, is this still the best practice?

Here's the old blog post that explains the feature: construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/collision-cell-optimisation-914
- alastair
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Good question! I recently discovered how to do this for my game.
- I use Greengrinds addon for Steam.
- I use the expression "Greengrinds.UILanguage" to load the appropriate translation project file.
- It uses values on this page from the "API language code" column
  partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/localization/languages
It works well, I changed the Steam interface to Korean, then tested my game and it changed the language.