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Performance drop with adwhirl

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Started 2 years ago by tof42
Latest reply from didillon

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tof42
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Hello everyone,

I am currently testing the adhwirl sdk and when the ads are on I can see a performance drop of my game. This worse is when the ads update itself, the game seems to hang for a really short period but it's definetly annoying.

If someone here is using adhwirl in a cocos2d game, please could you tell me if you also have a performance drop ?

Many thanks !

Posted 2 years ago #
pabloruiz55
Member

Hi! I haven't used it, but the slowdown may be due to it is made with uikit elements...
The hang you see also happens to me when openfeint tries to login, so it maybe a connection issue, when it tries to retrieve some data from intenet...

Posted 2 years ago #
tof42
Member

I agree for the connection issue, but everything should be multithreaded on their sdk to avoid this kind of problems.

I am currently in contact with their technical support, they are replying really fast (good point for them). It may be caused by one specific ads network and not adwhirl (which seems to embed all the libraires of each ads networks).

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

I put admob in my lite version and noticed significant drop in fps. I had to take it out as my game is pushing the limits anyway.

Posted 2 years ago #
ob1
Member

Did you have the ads only in the menus or also during the game ?

I have ads in the menus of my lite, and I didn't notice performance drops during gameplay. I made sure to remove the view and dispose the objects during gameplay though.

Posted 2 years ago #
tof42
Member

I am testing with ads during the game, at the bottom of the screen.

Posted 2 years ago #
slipster216
Moderator

Hmm, given the number of cocos2d games, it might make sense to start converting some of these systems to cocos-native libraries. I wonder if we could convince adwhirl or some ad provider to do it, because it would definitely increase the number of people using whichever service offers it. And while we don't have access to adwhirl as source, we do have access to OpenFeint and could write a standard cocos-wrapper for it to prevent these types of frame rate drops when in-game notifications happen.

Posted 2 years ago #
ob1
Member

Well, it's not a good idea to mix openGL and UIKit performance wise according to Apple's docs.

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

I had the ads in game too. I don't think people spend enough time on my menus to make it worth it. I'm fairly sure it was causing 5-10 fps drop. Possibly more.

So as ob1 alludes to, it's probably not a great idea during gameplay if your game needs the fps.

Posted 2 years ago #
tof42
Member

My game is not fps intensive, it's a puzzle game :D
But the fps drop is annoying when you move your items, seems like the game is not really responsive.

I agree mixing openGL and UIKit is not a good idea. If one of the ads aggregator could implement a cocos2d native system I would definetly go for this one.
But for now I will have to deal with adwhirl I think...

Posted 2 years ago #
ob1
Member

@jd ad clicks in the menus are not as good as in the game, but it is not that bad nonetheless. Still makes a significant percentage of revenue.

@tof42 Your problem might no be a performance drop but a problem with how the touches are dispatched between Cocos and UIKit.

Posted 2 years ago #
tof42
Member

@ob1 you may be right, do you have any advices for me to solve the problem ?

Posted 2 years ago #
tapjoy
Member

Hi all, I'm one of the founders of Tapjoy and we have an alternative to AdWhirl which you might find quite helpful; key advantages:

-downloads ads in a background process
-works with over 10 ad networks
-we're NOT owned by an Ad Network (like AdWhirl) so we are completely unbiased
-we are iPhone developers ourselves and you can reach us day or night at tapjoy.com or support @ tapjoy.com

Furthermore, we would be VERY interested in making changes to accommodate cocos2d; is there anyone who would be interested in chatting with us? partners @ tapjoy.com

Please check us out: http:/www.tapjoy.com

Best regards,
Lee

Posted 2 years ago #
tof42
Member

@tapjoy I have contacted you by mail. Let's see what you can do for us, cocos2d users :D

Posted 2 years ago #
x0661t
Member

Did anyone solved the problem with slow perfomance? Cause it's really slow.

Posted 8 months ago #
didillon
Member

Last post here is 2 years old, but I still wanna try. I added Adwhirl to my just finished cocos2d game and I am having performance problems especially when the game start and getting the first ads. The same thing happens when the ads get changed. When I disabled adwhirl the performance is constantly by 60fps. I am wondering if anyone solved the problem or could tell me if this problem disappears with Tapjoy. Thanks in advance!

Posted 5 months ago #

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