GMS1.4 and GMS2 Performance Discussion

[Evanski]

First off all Idk if this is the right place for this but I wanted to get people's thoughts, and knowlage about the inner workings of the Game Maker engines, like How many objects can each of them have running all at once before you have memory leaks or crashes? And which has better performance?

 

[Lukan]

Memory leaks are entirely dependent on your code, not the engines'.
The performance is harder to gauge, since that's related to your skill as well in a way, however GMS2 is bound to be better in the long run as it's still being updated and supported.
1.4 still runs fine, and even supports Windows XP if that's a thing you're interested in, but GMS2 uses newer technologies and has more platforms and updates coming.