Game dropping FPS on a low end laptop

[Beckerzineo]

Hello,

I have a Chromebook running Windows 10, an Acer... something, all you need to know is it has a Celeron N4020 CPU and 4GB of RAM.

I have the game running and nothing else, and it seems to work fine on the menu, but in game, it consistently starts "lagging" (dropping to like half FPS) after a little while. I played Spelunky, Towerfall, CaveStory+ and other 2D games just fine in this machine, in fact I used to make little games with Game Maker, and all also ran just fine, but this (these?) game(s) lag for me, pretty hard.

The most curious thing is that if I Alt+Tab in and out of the game (I'm running nothing else on the laptop, also, before anyone), it comes back to normal speed, for a few seconds (then it becomes laggy again).

I know it's a pretty low end device, running a OS that isn't even meant to be running, but I can work on it just fine, in fact I only played a bit of Rakshasa and the shooting driver game because I gotta get back to work, but both lag like this. I'm wondering if it's a problem with Game Maker Studio or the implementation of delta timing whatever on this game, maybe it being a weird processor messes things up for it. Hopefully it gets patched soon, I've been waiting so long for this game... (and I can't wait for it to come to Switch, btw, I rather it comes sooner to Switch then this gets fixed lol, but I thought I had to at least report my problem, maybe someone else has it too).

Best regards,

[foldspace]

Despite all of the patches, performance of the game still hasn't improved on my laptop.

Following advice above, I downloaded the borderless gaming app[github.com], switched UFO 50 to windowed and 1x scaling, then made the game fullscreen in borderless app and it runs fine at 60fps.

Given the game runs fine at 1X windowed and the slowdowns are entirely caused by whatever approach the UFO 50 team has used to apply the scaling and filtering, it shouldn't be too difficult for the team to find a fix for this. Please do!

[gerg]

Laptop people: try this
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1147860/discussions/0/4638238419731892992/