Optimizing

Hey all, I’ve been chipping away at my low poly 3D game in Godot and finally got to the point where I’m setting up a little test scene for quests, dialog, NPCs, etc. While working on that, I started t...

Hi there, (caution: maybe bad english ahead) my testing device is an old Samsung S7 edge. I want to the game run also on older devices so i use this model to get a wide audience. The Problem is the th...

Hello! I'm a CS Student working on a project analyzing aspects of the Godot engine, and was curious if anyone could help me understand what exactly the RenderingServer does to further optimize the ren...

I'm working on a system that uses a custom resource to hold conditions and another resource (let's call it Resource2). If the conditions are met, then the system is supposed to use Resource2. The prob...

I'm making a short Metroidvania game for a game jam. I'm developing it on my well-loved craptop, so naturally I need it to be somewhat well-optimized. So far I really only have the Player scene, but t...

Here's a BEFORE and AFTER video below [ I couldn't really track what really just happened. It occured after putting resources of every nodes needed, bullet nodes, shooter nodes, enemy nodes, etc. Howe...

Can you tell me if the camera node uses an improves rendering performance by processing and rendering only the objects within the camera's field of view, defined by its frustum while excluding those o...

Hi everyone! I've got a question today about game optimization. (my actual least favorite thing) I want the demo I'm working on to run well on lower-end machines. Not too low-end, but I'd love if it c...

Are there any good examples for "pre-warming" particles systems for Godot 4? I am trying to build out a little HTML5 project with Godot 4. The issue now is particle systems have a very bad slow down t...

I am creating a large cube of many (hopefully >500,000) somewhat complex meshes (100 vertices). It performs decently well when there are fewer than 100,000 meshes, but it lags heavily when creating mo...

I am making my first 2D game to run in a web browser, what techniques can I use to maximize the optimization of my game to run and work without delays in a web browser? I will be glad of any help and ...

Hello, community! I'm reaching out to you again, as I can't find answers to my questions on the vastness of the internet... I've started developing a multiplayer game, and I'm using udp protocol to tr...

I keep getting an error called "breakpoint" almost immediately after running the game and I cant figure out what it is. It gives me no information and I know its nothing to do with my code because eve...

Hi! I'm making a commentary system and my intent is to show them fast in real time. So I need to have an array of commentaries that include profile photo, dialogue box animation and more. I was using ...

Just having the game open in this one map causes these lag spikes I've searched for a while and have no Idea what can be the cause, many people were saying about shaders but I don't have a single one ...

Hello all, I am looking for a suitable engine for a 2D game with massive tilemap (up to 20,000x20,000 tiles, each 4x4 pixels) that needs constant updates through a cellular-automata-like system. This ...

I was wondering about this because technically if you send more data to the GPU, I would think that it costs more performance. I personally think that not using "set_custom()" via surfacetool would no...

I pinpointed this particular frame when clicking on a scene transitioning button on my main menu which apparently gets stuck for a whopping 13,7 seconds.....? I know the issue is the scene I'm transit...

Hello, we are making clone of Crossy Road. But we currently have a terrible performance running this simple 3D scene. On my boss's phone it only get 20 ~ 40 fps. If you have done Godot 3D game on andr...

I have a task that can be somewhat performance heavy but is not necessarily essential for it to update at a fixed frequency. Is there a way to determine how much time has elapsed in the current physic...