brittle narwhal
after being stumbled on why the performance of my game was so crappy after adding FX Layers i figured out that, on my laptop atleast, gamemaker uses the integrated gpu of my laptop instead of the dedicated gpu.
is it possible to force usage of the dedicated GPU? i don't really want to tell the player to mess with their nvidia/amd system settings in order to get my game working properly.
hollow hedgeBOT
after being stumbled on why the performance of my game was so crappy after addin...
tidal sapphire
There technically is a way to allow your game to utilise the dedicated gpu automatically, but there’s two caveats
Which isn’t really that convenient, especially if you just want to test it often in VM
There is some other ways of doing something similar, one via a CLI tool to inject the exact headers. And I have built a build script that can do this automatically on every build, for YYC
I also don’t have it uploaded anywhere
carmine robin
that sounds like it would be a huge help for anyone with this issue
tidal sapphire
Yeahhh I mean tbh this doesn’t cover VM
I think I have it setup for export
But during testing you use the runtime runner
carmine robin
yeah still not great for troubleshooting
tidal sapphire
So there’s really no point, unless you patch the VM runner for each runtime
Exactly
nik originally shared this one
brittle narwhal
ive seen the official article about how to do that in YYC, not entirely sure if thatll help me as the game uses VM and im not sure how much i have to change when i wanna transition over to YYC 😅
ill look into nvpatch. I would just apply the patch every time i build the game.
for debugging or running the game straight from the IDE i am just setting the nvidia settings to use the GPU of mine.
tidal sapphire
Right well for VM, the only way you can get it to update every time is if you either change your nvidia settings, or patch it on every single runtime update
For exporting you can automate it
I’ll see if I can find an upload
@brittle narwhal it’s been a hot minute, but I believe I do have a workaround included here for debugging with VM within the extension options
You just need this installed on your end
brittle narwhal
huh interesting. So the log within Gamemaker stated that nvpatch ran and it returned OK. Once i started the game it still used the IGPU. when i manually patched the .exe it worked and used the GPU.
tidal sapphire
huh interesting. So the log within Gamemaker stated that nvpatch ran and it retu...
Did you toggle the checkbox in the extension?
tidal sapphire
Lol
Yeah okay something went wrong there
It’s not an exact science
Especially since I don’t have access to an iGPU/dGPU system
So it’s kind of hard to fix it
brittle narwhal
Yeaaa hahahaha, all good nw. i will just patch it manually :3
ill take a look into the .bats. maybe i can find something :)
tidal sapphire
If you can tinker/get it working on your end, feel free to send me the edits back
It’s the only thing stopping me from just giving it out publicly
brittle narwhal
will do! :)
tidal sapphire
🫡
brittle narwhal
@tidal sapphire Okay got it.
i realized that the executeable within the Temporary folder was indeed patched but the zipped project wasn't.
so i just changed post_package_step.bat -> pre_package_step.bat.
now the game gets built with the patched version in the zip :)
brittle narwhal
no prob ^^
tidal sapphire
Do you have a GitHub username I could credit?
