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Very low fps on high-end gaming laptop

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OneOnline911

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Hello, I have a performance issue and it looks like a GMS2 bug. I set the game speed to 60 and my gaming laptop shows about 40 frames. There is only 1 empty object in the project room with a draw gui that shows fps, nothing else. When I set fps to 120 or 144, draw text shows the same fps in the game, but it's still wrong fps. I checked it this way: two clients (android and pc, both locked at 60 fps) are connected via udp and send ping every second (alarm = room_speed). In a minute or two, I can already see the PC lagging behind the smartphone. I checked the fps and saw that I had about 40, which is ridiculously low, and my laptop has no integrated graphics, only RTX 2060. Then I set the game speed to 144, and an hour later I saw a lag of about 2000 packets, again android is ahead of the pc. If I hadn't noticed 40 fps on my PC, I would have thought that the problem is in my phone. What can I do? I have not tried the YYC compiler yet, can this be the case? I have the latest version 2.3.1.542 and a fresh project (just one room 500x800 without views, with one object drawing on gui and waiting for 2 buttons).
 
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Yal

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GMC Elder
There's a setting called "sleep margin", try setting that to a really high value (e.g. 1000) - there's a known issue where Windows thinks your game is a background process and stops prioritizing it if it's too efficient, and setting the sleep margin high enough so that it never sleeps will prevent this.
 
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OneOnline911

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Wow really, my project had 1, but the default should be 10, right? It looks like this value was overwritten by the imported project ... Thanks a lot, the problem is solved :)
 
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