This doesn't affect performance on the device - however I've noticed some very strange behavior when testing using Cocos 1.0 in the Retina Display simulator 4.3.2 . Not only do framerates cap at exactly 30.0 fps instead of the usual 60.0, but also time literally slows down 2X - so my seconds timer takes 2 seconds for each second... Has anyone seen this themselves or does anyone have any idea about what maybe causing it? Of course since it's fine on the device it doesn't affect my development THAT much, but it's nice to test retina graphics on the simulator.
Retina Simulator Halves Framerate
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Blue Ether
Member@actinism is right about the software renderer. The speed it runs at will be highly dependent on your system specs. Even really high spec machines can struggle with the iPad/ Retina simulators.
I think it is important to note that the term "emulator" is not accurate to describe the simulator though, because it is NOT emulating iOS. It is only giving the appearance of running iOS. An emulator seeks to exactly mimic (emulate) all of the behaviors, limitations, and quirks of a given hardware. The simulator doesn't attempt to do that, which is why many times the two behave in different ways. If you think about it as an emulator you can start to make bad assumptions about your code.
Those familiar with Android development - Android uses an actual emulator. But you pay the price for it- you'll frequently get 1-5 FPS, even with a high end machine. Which, as you can imagine, makes it as good as worthless.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Thanks for the replies, guys. I would definitely understand a drop in performance just due to simulator performance... but we're talking about a very exacting halving here. A max framerate of EXACTLY 30.0 instead of 60.0 and time being stretched out by EXACTLY a 2x factor. Isn't that more than performance, but some kind of behavioral symptom?
Posted 1 year ago # -
No. Again the graphics are all rendered in software. The number of pixels to render are increased by 4x! The reason why it's exactly halved is probably because you are using a display link to control the framerate and are taking longer than 16ms to render due to the extra pixels. So it only draws every other frame.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I've noticed in the simulator if you get more than 60 frames it stays at 60 and if you have less than 60 it syncs to 30. I'm not sure if it's a Cocos2d thing or the simulator.
Also if your timer is taking two seconds instead of one then I assume it's frame based and that's generally not a good practice.
Posted 1 year ago #
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