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Upgrading to Windows Phone 8.1 Performance Issues

Discussion in 'Windows' started by LeeDenbigh, Nov 14, 2015.

  1. LeeDenbigh

    LeeDenbigh

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    Hi, I have been working on a 2D platform game for Windows Phone 8 for a few months and I have just noticed that WP8 will be made obsolete in the version 5.3. So I upgraded to Windows Phone 8.1.

    The game runs so smoothly on 8.0 and when I tested it using 8.1 its ridiculously laggy. Is there a way to set it up so that it runs just as well as on WP8. Why is there such a huge difference in performance when 8.1 is supposed to be the better OS?
     
  2. Tautvydas-Zilys

    Tautvydas-Zilys

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    Is there any chance you're running in debug configuration? If you are, then it's definitely the reason you're seeing the performance impact. Switch to Release configuration for testing.

    As far we've seen so far, games targeting WP8.1 usually perform up to 50% better due to multithreaded renderer which is not available for games targeting WP8.0.
     
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