Shop is blurry and laggy

[ashen jewel]

Why does it look like this? I reloaded discord and rejoined the game but it´s not changing anything.
And additionally it´s very laggy and I can´t buy the stuff in the shop as fast as I could do in the past. ;(

[glossy thorn]

Why do you open a bug when there is no bug?

[inland smelt]

what do you have your resolution set to in the game’s settings?

[ashen jewel]

i think it isbecause its extremely blurred and laggy

[ashen jewel]

idk i never changed them i can look

its on 94% automatically

only the shops are blurred
for example my collection book is still normal

[inland smelt]

that would be why. you’ve changed the zoom setting on either discord or your computer so the game is being forced to draw at a weird size and scale everything

probably you need to zoom out one step

in discords settings or your computers

94% is the game doing its best given those constraints

as for it being laggy - the screenshot shows 60fps, but if you take a video maybe we can see something different?

[ashen jewel]

oh thats interesting i will try to change

[ashen jewel]

its laggy in that way that i spam on my mouse 10 times but the game only takes 6 times

[inland smelt]

can you send a video? it should give you exactly as many as you buy

[ashen jewel]

i do get what i "buy" but when i press 10 times the game only takes 6 and therefore i only buy 6 so i have to press like 15 times for "10 times"
and i tried to change it in the game i now have 100% but its not like it was a week ago :C but its better

[inland smelt]

hmm that's strange, are you using an autoclicker or something?

[barren mauve]

Dealing with the same thing. Mobile here. Shop is a bit more laggy. It ran smooth a few days ago. Not a storage thing on my end, or anything. Tried it on two phones, on discord and on the IOS app.

[scenic rivet]

I also know what you mean. It hasn't been a problem for me so far, though. The cat on the right in the video has a counter that increments with every mouse click. I stopped clicking right away when there were no more seeds left. However, at least when spamming, it takes more clicks than it did before the update. It's the same on my phone. Hope the video helps!

[ashen jewel]

no just my hand

[scenic rivet]

also not using an auto clicker, mods or anything. just my ||(probably data stealing)|| bongo cat

[fickle oasis]

shop is indeed a bit laggy when clicking fast to buy multiple seeds

im having to slow my click pace so it registers it

[scenic rivet]

Yeah, when going slower you will lose less clicks, just spamming is problematic

[fickle oasis]

buying carrots has been interesting

[scenic rivet]

I feel like I should still mention that I really like the new shop. The seed icons load much faster now, too. I think the name of the bug report is a bit over the top. Good work and thanks for the update! 💜

[ashen jewel]

youre right i ment the ugly to blurry and not as before

Shop is blurry and laggy

[fickle oasis]

thank you for changing that 🙏

[fickle oasis]

i also use low render so my pc doesnt heat up like a toaster and shop has always been kinda blurry

its probably blurrier than before id say

[inland smelt]

what framerate do you have set in the game's settings?

[inland smelt]

i will investigate this

[barren mauve]

Automatic, so I’m not sure. But I’ve tried the rest and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Not that I can tell at least

30 btw. Sorry I forgot to mention it.

[inland smelt]

that would be why - automatic is good, but if you limit to 30 it will (of course) feel laggy

previously lowering the frame rate did not impact the shops

but now it (correctly) does

[mortal vessel]

@timid kettle

[timid kettle]

It's so funny, I've been meaning to make this post the last couple of nights 😅 The clicks are defintely an issue, buying 5 cactus often takes 7-8 clicks. I think it's if you click the button before it animates back up? I'm not entirely sure.

I can also make another post, but I've personally had an issue with the scroll speed. I think I used to be able to get to the binders in one and a half scrolls, but it's a minimum of four to four and a half with the updated shop.

[inland smelt]

i would suggest making another post for this - the scrolling is indeed completely different - previously it used whatever the browser default would be. now it's my own handrolled scrolling engine (as used in the journal since a couple months ago)

i am open to feedback on tuning it of course

[inland smelt]

definitely sounds like there are some lost click issues i need to investigate here

[timid kettle]

yes! sorry to distract from the clicks 😅 I'll write that up after I finish my work

[inland smelt]

no rush!!

meanwhile i MAY have found a solution for the "blurry" complaints at lower resolutions

[inland smelt]

ok great news

fixes for ALL of these issues are on the way

[inland smelt]

ok, here's the sauce

• for fuzzy text in particular, the game now automatically uses double the resolution on lower-resolution monitors - so it looks less blurry

• however, for SUPER CRISPY MODE, you can now select a new even-higher Render Scale option in the game's settings

this makes everything look crispier, especially UI, but it's expensive on the GPU, so this is opt-in

i have other tricks planned to improve UI crispiness without that

but it's here now for anyone who has a decent graphics card and wants to use it!

[fickle oasis]

love this btw, since its out, can this maybe also include pet ability text and seeds numbers one day? 👀

[inland smelt]

it does - all text

not just the shops, but those were the most noticeable

[fickle oasis]

i never complained about it bc i didnt want to bother, but this has always troubled me. Thank you very much!!✨

also shop clicking is SUPER fast

and scroll on mouse is better than before

[inland smelt]

im so glad to hear!

you should try the new higher option in the Render Scale too

it improves things like little 'jagged' artifacts on rounded corners of UI

(im also genuinely curious if its noticeable, either because it looks better or feels laggier)

[fickle oasis]

lets try it 👀

so smoooth

im on browser, it must look even better on discord

[timid kettle]

Out of curiosity, is this just on lower-resolution monitors or also intentionally through render scale?

[fickle oasis]

it does feel a bit laggier, but it can be bc of my pc. its in need of some repair

[inland smelt]

also wait about the text - i just checked, i was slightly wrong. not all text, just most - any text that gets translated gets the auto-crispy. some text is never translated (like the names of plants, which are not translated currently) are not crispy

[inland smelt]

the text-only sharpening happens only if your render scale is less than 200%

[mortal vessel]

So the seed shop be affected ? correct ?

Ex.left (seed notification pop up) v. 347 & right v. 349

[inland smelt]

ok i was double slightly wrong. in the code, any translated text gets crispy automatically

the shop is NOT translated but I did manually enable crispification

[mortal vessel]

hmmm

[inland smelt]

basically: it's more than just the seed shop, but less than ALL text - assuming we're talking about the under-200%-text-only-crispification

[fickle oasis]

the seed shop got affected for me

[inland smelt]

ah if your resolution is set below native, it's gonna lose all that no matter what

[fickle oasis]

its much clearer

[inland smelt]

that looks like 50% or 75% render scale or somethign @mortal vessel

[mortal vessel]

ahhh so 50% in the iOS app is gonna remain blurry !

[inland smelt]

correct. the way to think about it is it's a pipeline

[mortal vessel]

Thanks for the clarification ! I was just curious what it impacted and how ! 😅

[fickle oasis]

i have always used 50%...

[inland smelt]

basically: when the game wants to render some text, it asks the browser to draw it onto a scratchpad. then, we copy the pixels out from the scratchpad onto the game's frame. the automatic text crispy trick i introduced makes the scratchpads bigger, but not the frame.

the "Render Scale" option is changing the size of the output frame. at 50% render scale, that's 1/4 as many pixels as your screen actually has (half width and height). that's why it's blurry. and it doesn't matter if we made those scratchpads like GIGASIZED, becasue it's getting scaled way down before we show it to your screen anyhow