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Dibidoolandas
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So I'm very green when it comes to Game Maker (Studio), but I've been working on my platformer game for a while now and am starting to implement graphics. I've tested on a couple of other machines and they've performed well, however on 2 laptops that I tested the game just ran in slow motion. I don't think it has anything to do with memory leaks or anything like that because it was right out of the gate, but seemed like it might be tied to my parallaxing backgrounds.
I'll admit my background images are large and there's a lot of artwork, but the visual style of the game is important to me. Still, I might be just using stupidly large images. Here are a few examples of background images in my level:
http://i.imgur.com/llJsXGy.png
http://imgur.com/6a4YFh1
http://imgur.com/t0WiJCo
Suppose it could also be my parallax code, though I pulled that largely from someone on this site who had positive responses.
If you'd like to actually see the game, I can provide a link to the exe. Is there a better way to share the game? I'm sure DLing an exe might make some people nervous. The game is very much in progress so just expect it to be like swiss cheese if you see errors/crashes (you WILL see one if you die). Arrow keys, Z/X to jump/run-shoot. Anyways here's the link to the standalone exe.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiTPeNT5oR9jiYovFLTU9PCkKLddYA
Any help would be appreciated. Maybe those laptops just suck at running games? I know my wife's crappy one does, it can barely use the web.
I'll admit my background images are large and there's a lot of artwork, but the visual style of the game is important to me. Still, I might be just using stupidly large images. Here are a few examples of background images in my level:
http://i.imgur.com/llJsXGy.png
http://imgur.com/6a4YFh1
http://imgur.com/t0WiJCo
Suppose it could also be my parallax code, though I pulled that largely from someone on this site who had positive responses.
If you'd like to actually see the game, I can provide a link to the exe. Is there a better way to share the game? I'm sure DLing an exe might make some people nervous. The game is very much in progress so just expect it to be like swiss cheese if you see errors/crashes (you WILL see one if you die). Arrow keys, Z/X to jump/run-shoot. Anyways here's the link to the standalone exe.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiTPeNT5oR9jiYovFLTU9PCkKLddYA
Any help would be appreciated. Maybe those laptops just suck at running games? I know my wife's crappy one does, it can barely use the web.