Question

I’m developing a game where I update the height the player has already gone. this is my code:

self.intScore++;
[self.lblScore setString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", self.intScore]];

but when I set the lblScore with the current score, the framerate drops from 60fps to 40fps +-

I’m testing with an iPhone 4.

If I comment the [self.lblScore… then the framerate maintains in 60fps, but the score is not updated.

Any recommendations?

Answer 1

Ok, so here is what I done to solve this issue.

I had a function that updated the score every millisecond and yes, that was awful. So I changed the score updating to happen a little less.

I added this to the .h file

@property (nonatomic,assign) int slowScore;

and added this to my function on the .m file

if(slowScore < 5){
  slowScore++;            
}else if(slowScore == 5){
  self.intScore = self.intScore + 5;
  slowScore = 0;
} 
[self.lblScore setString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", self.intScore]];

By doing that I was able to keep the same score but it gets updated leed times and by doing that, my framerate keeps nice at 60fps 🙂

+1 to @jonmorgan for suggesting the change to CCLabelAtlas.

I tested my new code with CCLabelTTF and CCLabelAtlas and both keep the framerate at 60fps, but running some tests with other parts of the code, CCLabelAtlas is performing much better.