Windows [SOLVED] Problem with FPS

[TheBroman90]

I have a problem with my frame rate and I can't understand what's causing it...

When I run my game inside Game Maker everything is fine. I can even create a .exe file, run it and play without problems. BUT! When I close Game Maker and exit Steam and then run my .exe file again I get 20 FPS less than before. And if I start Game Maker again my FPS goes back up.

What is going on?

EDIT: My friend got 40 FPS on his computer too, even though the real fps was over 2000. So I told him to download Game Maker on Steam. He then ran Game Maker in the background and the FPS in the game went up to 60. This makes no sense!

 

[PNelly]

Your question implies something going on in the backend of GMS as opposed to GML programming so you'll probably get a better response in the tech support part of the forums, or you can open a ticket with the yoyo games help desk

 

[TheBroman90]

This is driving me crazy. All my game projects I create require me to run game maker in the background, or else the fps drops to 40 even though the real fps is 2000+. How's that even possible? It's the same on all computers I test on.

I asked in the tech forum and sent a qustion to yoyo games but got no reply. Is it just me who have this weird problem?

 

[TsukaYuriko]

I'll move this to Community Tech Support. I doubt it's a technical problem with GM, though.

Is your CPU set to maximum performance at all times? If not, it may be underclocking itself if it's on low load, thus leading to lower performance. Steam's client makes my CPU load peak as long as its UI is open, so the scenario you described makes the results sound logical to me if this is what's happening.

 

[Juju]

That the debug overlay is giving you a number in the thousands, I'd consider this test to be an edge case. Add some weight to your project and see what happens.

 

[TheBroman90]

Is your CPU set to maximum performance at all times? If not, it may be underclocking itself if it's on low load, thus leading to lower performance. Steam's client makes my CPU load peak as long as its UI is open, so the scenario you described makes the results sound logical to me if this is what's happening.

How do I set it to maximum performance? I opened Steam, ran my game and got 40 fps. Then I started Game Maker and the fps went up to 60.

EDIT: I noticed that running games from Steam also gives me 60 fps, so it's not just Game Maker.

That the debug overlay is giving you a number in the thousands, I'd consider this test to be an edge case. Add some weight to your project and see what happens.

I get 2000+ real fps in the beginning of the game. Then when the action starts and body parts are flying all over, the real fps might drop to 500 or something. And again, I get 60 fps with Game Maker running and as soon as I close it the fps drops.

 

[Arjailer]

This has been discussed several times before. This thread in particular appears to have a solution near the end of the thread (setting Sleep Margin to 10).

Edit: Not noticed the problem myself, so don't know if the Sleep Margin fix actually works - just remembered seeing that tread and thought it might be relevant

 

[TheBroman90]

This has been discussed several times before. This thread in particular appears to have a solution near the end of the thread (setting Sleep Margin to 10).

Edit: Not noticed the problem myself, so don't know if the Sleep Margin fix actually works - just remembered seeing that tread and thought it might be relevant

Thanks! I think that solved it