Simple game performance question

Hi all!
Today I installed a simple Mah Jong game on my mothers Mac mini Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz. The CPU performance should be roughly the same as on my iMac(as specified below). She uses a VGA display and has 1GB of RAM and this game doesn´t require very much RAM. How important is the graphics adapter for the performance of this very simple game with very little 3D effects as compared to the latest games on a pc? Do I get a speed boost because of 256 MB instead of 128 MB VRAM? Is it just Intel GMA 950 to blame for less performance or has it something to do with the VGA display?
I´m very curious about this. Thanks for your replies.

+is it just Intel GMA 950 to blame for less performance+
Probably. Integrated graphics can't match a dedicated graphics card.
Another possible contributor would be if the Mini with 1 Gig of RAM has a significant number of other memory-consuming programs running at the same time. This would be especially true if any of the programs invoke Rosetta emulation.
The 2 gig of RAM in the iMac would be a real advantage if it reduces virtual memory activity vis-a-vis the Mini with 1 Gig.
A fair test would be to make sure no other programs or widgets are running, and then test the game.

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Simple performance question

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for (int i=0;i<dimension1;i++)
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I guess my real question is, will the compiler optimize the condition check out when it realizes the boolean value will not change through these iterations, and if it does not, is it worth doing that micro optimization?Almost certainly not; the main reason being that
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but I will follow amickr advice and not worry about it.Good idea. Saves you getting flamed with all the quotes about premature optimization.
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Simple game design,

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lord_midnight wrote:
]morgair: I have done some small projects here n there, mostly just demos, I am almost finished with a retro styled platformer, just placing tiles and entities, finishing up the art, code is done except for a few custom routines for a boss. this project is actually pretty small, other than being online, its a good choice for a first game type of project. Im confident it is within my skillset.Thank you for the reply, I was unsure what level of help you needed, many on here come in and have never done any programming before, let alone, an actual game on-line or otherwise. It's nice to hear where you're at.
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]soultech2012: Im actually in college, I took java this spring, and Im taking advanced java as soon as its offered online. still, its not so much instruction I want, as discussion.
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real language interaction with characters (pattern matching for content)
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How to design a simple game?

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scenario created:
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classes extracted:
player
token
board
row
column
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i know scenarios should include every possible way of
utilizing the software but it gives countless
possbilities and i was wonder if scenario for every
single way of utilizing the product should be created
or maybe not? i suppose that number of scenarios
depends on how the product is complicated but in case
of very simple game like connect4 aproximately how
many scenarios would be expected?Very few. This program is small and the interaction
with the user is minimal.
2. having above scenario ready i've used noun
extraction method to extract candidate classes and so
i have:
player
token
board
row
column
assuming that state of token, row, column will not
change, i skipped those and left only two classes
board and player. after a while i also noticed that
another class named connect4 would be needed to put it
all together.Things like "player" or "person" are rarely if ever real classes.
Imagine you were designing the control program for an
elevator. Just because a person clicks on the button for
a floor doesn't mean you make them a class in your design.
Likewise, just because a player clicks on a column doesn't
mean you make them a class.
In reality, this program is small enough for one major class,
the gameboard itself. You may have an enum for the token
color but that's about it.
What can you do with this gameboard? Not much:
1. Add a token to column X.
2. Check for a win.
3. Obtain a copy of the board.
Your gameboard only has to maintain the state of the
board and allow you to add a token or check for a win.
Your class to display the gameboard and accept user
input will probably be larger than anything else.
You can write this program with only two classes. The
gameboard and the display.
3. having one scenario ready and classes extracted i
went directly to drawing sequence state diagram which
i've put hereOverkill for a program of this size.
4. next i draw detailed class diagram (here) and more
or less decided on methods for every classAlso overkill for a program of this size. Unless this is
an assignment at work or school, all of these documents
are unnecessary and likely to be several times larger than
your entire program.
5. then i started writing pseudocode but while writing
i'm finding myself adding additional methods,
variables etc and keep changing design while coding,
what dosent seem to be a good practice. i was wonder
how it works in real life and what is the chance to
get application designed correctly for the first time,
i mean extract the classes with methods etc.If you find your design doesn't work while writing code
then yes, you should go back and change your design
document. This isn't too big of a sign of disaster unless
you need to step back another step and change the
requirements document. That's usually a sign you
really messed up.
By all means, go back and change the design document
if you need to before you finish coding.
In this case however, its probably overkill.
to be honest i got lost a little cause according to
shach's book i missed state diagram and few other
things and dont know how important those bit are in
real life and designing real software. as i said i'm
real beginner in software engineering and any help
would be much appreciated. than you very much in
advance for any comments regarding my design and helpIts next to impossible to go through a structured design
process on a project this small while working by yourself.
You really need a bigger project with multiple team members
to see how its all supposed to play out.
Projects of this size are written almost as soon as you start
thinking about them and any documentation you generate will
dwarf your source code printout.

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BPM performance question

Guys,
I do understand that ccPBM is very resource hungry but what I was wondering is this:
Once you use BPM, does an extra step decreases the performance significantly? Or does it just need slightly more resources?
More specifically we have quite complex mapping in 2 BPM steps. Combining them would make the mapping less clear but would it worth doing so from the performance point of view?
Your opinion is appreciated.
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Viktor Varga

Hi,
In SXMB_ADM you can set the time out higher for the sync processing.
Go to Integration Processing in SXMB_ADM and add parameter SA_COMM CHECK_FOR_ASYNC_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT to 120 (seconds). You can also increase the number of parallel processes if you have more waiting now. SA_COMM CHECK_FOR_MAX_SYNC_CALLS from 20 to XX. All depends on your hardware but this helped me from the standard 60 seconds to go to may be 70 in some cases.
Make sure that your calling system does not have a timeout below that you set in XI otherwise yours will go on and finish and your partner may end up sending it twice
when you go for BPM the whole workflow
has to come into action so for example
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if you do it in a BPM the transformation step
can last 2 seconds + one second mapping...
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so the workflow gives you many design possibilities
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slow down the process and if you have
thousands of messages the preformance
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see below links
http://help.sap.com/bp_bpmv130/Documentation/Operation/TuningGuide.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/d92e428819da2ce10000000a1550b0/content.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/3.0/sap%20exchange%20infrastructure%20tuning%20guide%20xi%203.0.pdf
BPM Performance tuning
BPM Performance issue
BPM performance question
BPM performance- data aggregation persistance
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Comments/Suggestions for Simple Game?

I have a super simple game I made. You can download it here:
http://www.filedropper.com/catchphrase2
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TokyoTony wrote:
I'd like to try something else please. The reason is as follows:
When I put in a name for the document and then scan the documents, the file still comes up as untitled. I don't get that.
When I want to rotate a page that is supposed to be landscape and do the rotation in Image Capture, all it does is cut the top and bottom out--it rotates the selection, not the image. I know I can do this in a PDF editor but why not have everything I need done in one application?
When I do want to select A4 size, I don't see it unless I hide details. Seems a bit strange.
Thanks,
Tony
Are you scanning into a program, or to a file? Either way, it seems to work for me with Preview. I didn’t try another app.
I can’t replicate your other problems, either. Rotation works as expected and I have both Letter and A4 available on both interfaces.
I have an Epson all-in-one, though.
Perhaps if you listed your HP model number, others with that same printer/scanner could help.
One thing to try, though. Log into another user on the Mac and try to scan. Same results?
Boot into Safe Mode and try to scan. Same results?
OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
Those two steps will see if the problem is system-wide or caused by some additional software you have running at startup.

Bad game performance, but, why?

I got my new computer yesterday. It's a macintosh 2ghz 20-inch iMac, with Memory of 512 mb ram and under the memory section in about this computer it says its running at 667mhz. I have 256mb ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card and 207.96 gb free in my macintosh HD.
I have been having really crappy game performance. THe only game I have is UT2004, but I can't play it at all with the graphics turned up, and while single player works once i put them down to average quality, but even at LOWEST quality multiplayer is really hiccupy. Why is this and can I fix it?
Message was edited by: James Bosha

Hi there,
here is the link to explain the memory you need to buy and how to fit it yourself....(Very easy to do, by the way)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303085
With regards to how much it costs, the Apple online store will sell it to you...check it out!
Are you in the UK?
Stephen.
iMac Intel 2GHz Core Duo and iBook G4 1.2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Simple game performance question

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