Smoke Lag?

[LandMarine47]

Is it regular for iPads to lag when a large amount of smoke is deployed? So far this happened when playing PC/or Mac players. It's quite annoying frankly

[pipfromslitherine]

Yes - I would expect to see that, especially on earlier model iPads. The game actually reduces the size of particles on the iPad 1 to try and avoid the worst of it, but the gfx chips in the iPad have especially poor performance when rendering many layers of alpha. The smoke mods probably don't take this into account when emitting their lots of particles

Cheers

Pip

[LandMarine47]

Explains it. I'm running an iPad 2. Are newer models faring any better?

[pipfromslitherine]

The newer models have more gfx horsepower yes, but alpha suffers on all the PowerVR chipsets because of the way that the rendering is built - it's an unfortunate side effect of their architecture.

Cheers

Pip