Legacy GM Place Meeting slowing game based on distance

[Cblurban]

Hi,
I'm having trouble optimizing my game's instance_place collision checks on mobile devices because it appears that the amount of processor power required is distance based and increases unreasonably high despite my every effort to optimize. I understand that it is checking the collision on every pixel of the object with precise masks, but does anyone know of any ways I could speed these up?

Below is an example of the problem:

Thanks,
Cameron Urban

 

[Bingdom]

Instead of using instance_place, you can try place_meeting(), it's a little faster.

 

[Cblurban]

Instead of using instance_place, you can try place_meeting(), it's a little faster.

Thanks, I do need the id of the instances though so I can't really use that route.