cocos2d for iPhone

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   pabloruiz55
   Member

   Hi!
   I have a few problems with loading times in my game.

   1) It takes 5 seconds to start loading anything. I mean, i run it, loading.png appears and then after 5 seconds it runs through the appdelegate.
   What can i do to lower this time?

   2)In my delegate i load the sounds. If i loadbuffers directly it takes 5 seconds to finish that. I want to show a progress bar, but for doing so i have to load them async. If i load them that way it takes more than 13 seconds to fully load them (soundEngine.asynchLoadProgress >=1)
   Any idea why is that? Or if this can be solved?

   Thanks

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Steve Oldmeadow
   Administrator

   Regarding point 2 - the time taken depends on what else your app is doing whilst you are loading the sounds. If you are displaying a progress bar at 60fps that is going to eat up a lot of CPU, try dropping the frame rate down to something like 4fps.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   pabloruiz55
   Member

   Thanks Steve, that did the trick.

   Regarding point 1, is that normal? Does it take like 5 seconds for you to start starting?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Steve Oldmeadow
   Administrator

   @pabloruiz - 5 seconds sounds long but it would have to depend on the app. I would guess app size is a factor and it certainly seems to me that big fat 3d apps that are 80Mb+ take a lot longer to get going than the calculator app.

   Also the amount of global/static initialisation in the app would be a factor.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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