I have 2 questions about profiling

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  1. What does this number mean (3.73ms)? Its average time spend on 1 frame? So I can calc FPS from it by 1000/3.73? So it very good?

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  1. How can I debug frame rate Hick-ups? Like, if my statement above is right, the average FPS is actually very good. But it constantly drops down to 31 fps and then goes back to 61.

I measure with ToString(round(1/TimeDelta()))

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I’d looking forward to someone answering our first question - there’s scant information to what the profiler actually tells you.

I found a similar issue with the variable fame rates. However, I run a timer and increment a variable every frame, resetting once the timer exceeds 1.

I found that the browser was interfering quite a bit. Check task manager to see what’s hogging the CPU & GPU.

I also found that using ‘Repeat for every object’ conditions seemed to hammer the CPU, as does sprite masking.

Also, if you put your events into groups, then they come up in the profiler. You can then narrow down which events are taking a disproportionate amount of CPU.

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I found a similar issue with the variable fame rates. However, I run a timer and increment a variable every frame, resetting once the timer exceeds 1.

What do you mean with this?

Check task manager to see what’s hogging the CPU & GPU.

Found nothing special. In GPU 3d tab stable 20% usage, CPU also stable 15% usage from the game. Same with default platformer example. So I don’t understand the hickups in mine.

The real funs starts on Mobile device , ehhhhh

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Yeah. This probably show more precise Picture of the overall FPS

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But I still don’t understand the profiler results. According to it I should have ~450 FPS :smiley:

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Btw same here. On Simple masking ~10 FPS drop. When I play with plain PIXI is not a problem at all. :confused:

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  1. I think it’s the average time spent on processing each frame.
  2. How to debug poor game performance [GDevelop wiki]
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Thanks for the link, @Gruk. I hadn’t come across that one before, and it has some suggestions I wouldn’t have thought of.

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when i try using this nothing shows up. no number at all

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You need to create a text object and place it in the scene so it’s visible when you play. I named mine ‘DebugText’.

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i have the text in the scene already. i had attempted just the 1/TimeDelta() and it showed up but i was looking for more of the accuracy that you have.

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Give a screen shot of your events, and we’ll see if we can spot what’s going on.

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did you figure out your problem? I have the same one: good numbers in the profiler but poor performances on old computers and phones

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@yoloyolo Please don’t revive old posts - this one is more than 2 years old. You have also already opened a topic on this problem in the forum.
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