FPS drop heavily on Android whenever Tint Screen is running

[Lee Sang]

I have a game running on Android device, but whenever I play to every scene that has Tint Screen is activating, the FPS just keep dropping and I can't be able to play the game. The game run pretty well on PC but it's almost can't be playable on Android device because of the Tint Screen command. I've tried a lot of methods to fix that but non of them worked.


I hope you guys can help me with this, thank you guys so much. 

 

[Andar]

Tint Screen is a mathematical formula applied to the entire display data, and that requires a lot of processing power - something that is always more limited on mobiles than on full computers.


The performance might be improved after the next updates as those are planned to switch to a newer display engine and solve a few memory leaks, but it also depends on the processor of the mobile device - if that is too slow, then nothing will prevent the lag when using tint screen.

 

[Lee Sang]

Tint Screen is a mathematical formula applied to the entire display data, and that requires a lot of processing power - something that is always more limited on mobiles than on full computers.


The performance might be improved after the next updates as those are planned to switch to a newer display engine and solve a few memory leaks, but it also depends on the processor of the mobile device - if that is too slow, then nothing will prevent the lag when using tint screen.





 

Oh, this is sad...


Thank you for replying, Andar. I guess i'll have to wait for the next update then.

 

[Shaz]

My first thought is that you could have it set up in a parallel process event that you don't erase after the tint is done.  This is a common problem, causing it to repeatedly tint for the entire time you're on the map.  Tint Screen needs to happen once, then not again until you return to the map after leaving.  So if you've got it in a parallel process event, use an Erase Event command afterwards to stop it continually trying to tint the screen the whole time you're on the map.

 

[Lee Sang]

My first thought is that you could have it set up in a parallel process event that you don't erase after the tint is done.  This is a common problem, causing it to repeatedly tint for the entire time you're on the map.  Tint Screen needs to happen once, then not again until you return to the map after leaving.  So if you've got it in a parallel process event, use an Erase Event command afterwards to stop it continually trying to tint the screen the whole time you're on the map.





 

Nope, no parallel process event was using.

 

[Shaz]

  Do you have any plugins that might be affecting this?  Are you able to show a screenshot of one of your Tint Screen events?  I was hoping there might be a solution other than "wait for the next version", but maybe there isn't.

 

[Lee Sang]

Here are the plugins I used in my project. And below is my Tint Screen event.

Spoiler

Oh gosh, I really hope I did something wrong because if this problem is caused by the engine then I'll have to wait for the next version.





 

 






 

 

[Shaz]

I assume that event has a second page conditioned by self switch A, that's set to Action Button and has no event commands?


I don't really think it would have anything to do with it, but if you disable the GALV_LayerGraphics plugin, does it make any difference?  It would surprise me if it did.


There are no other events on that map (or common events that would be active) that are set to parallel process or have anything to do with tinting screen?


The only other thing I can suggest is to make sure all your plugins are the latest version.

 

[Lee Sang]

I assume that event has a second page conditioned by self switch A, that's set to Action Button and has no event commands?


I don't really think it would have anything to do with it, but if you disable the GALV_LayerGraphics plugin, does it make any difference?  It would surprise me if it did.


There are no other events on that map (or common events that would be active) that are set to parallel process or have anything to do with tinting screen?


The only other thing I can suggest is to make sure all your plugins are the latest version.





 






 







 

I've tried everything but none of them worked. I knew it was because of the Tint Screen itself. It runs well on my PC but not so much on mobile devices. And the event has a second page and it was a blank page and it was set to Action Button.


There was another Parallel event on that map but it doesn't have anything to do with Tint Screen. It was just a show picture event and It erases itself after it's activated. I'll send you the game to test by yourself if you want to.