Performance issues

Hello

this is my first post so apologies if I am asking something that has been covered to death.

I am trying to run a game on RPG VX Ace, and basically the issue are the FPS. When I launch the game, it goes at 60 FPS, but as soon as I start playing it drops to 8-10, making every combat absolutely unbearable.

I have tried disabling every background program (I cannot get below physical memory of 40%) and increasing virtual memory to 6 GB, but to no avail.

Does anyone have any suggestion?

Thank you

That sounds as if you have used a badly written parallel process inside the game project - all parallel processes automatically loop every frame, unless they are either switched off or set to wait for several frames.


Generally speaking, unless you know exactly what you're doing, you should not set events to parallel process, especially you should not use parallel process for automatic moves (that's what the autonomous movement settings are for, no need to set the trigger to parallel).


You'll have to search for the cause inside the game project, not outside of it...

Is it ONLY in combat that the problem happens, or on the map and in the menu as well?


If it's only on the map, I'd say Andar has hit the nail on the head.


If it's only in battle, it could still be an event problem.


If it's ALL the time, then it's likely related to scripts. In that case, let us know what scripts you're using and provide links to them. If you've written or modified your own and you're not an experienced scripter, then you can easily cause problems like this.


If it's all too hard to figure out, zip up your project and load it up somewhere (not 4shared please - I can never download from that site), and I or someone else will take a look.

Hello,

thanks for the replies!

Andar: - it is a game I downloaded, not that I made. I have noticed the same drop in FPS in all the games I have downloaded

Shaz - it happens during combat. The overland movement seems fine (even though FPS are low, but the perception is that I am moving forward).

The games are essentially almost unplayable during multi-encounter combat (and there are a lot of random fights). When my party is facing only one enemy, the game becomes as smooth as it should be, so the issue seems to be with multi-encounters.

I was wondering if there was a script or something that could make the base version of RPG VX Ace faster. The games are a 'given' to me.

Thanks!

If it's a game you downloaded, then you need to go back to the creators and find out if they can do anything about it.


Unless you have the original uncompressed project, you couldn't do anything with it even if we could give you a solution.


What game(s)?