The Powder Toy

Voyager15

I wondered if there could be a "time warp" button that can speed up/slow down physics. For the slower computer users (like me), it would be awesome. For those super fast PC users, they could use the slow-mo if their PC is "too" fast. Just a little idea.

spoon

I think you can only slow down the game. The "TPT" do not run at the highest speed possible?

CeeJayBee2

tpt.setfpscap("x")
Where x is a number. Default speed is 60

Protcom

@CeeJayBee2 (View Post)

Nope this is the maxemam of fps that the game can get to. don't change it to a high number because it will take so much cpu and don't change it to a low number because the gui can't get any sign from you.

mecha-man

@Protcom (View Post)

Some peoples CPU's can handle higher FPS than most.

You just have to hold the button down if it doesn't register.

boxmein

@Voyager15 (View Post)
Speeding up physics means we have to calculate more things in a second than we would normally, let's say two times more. If right now your computer can only perform 15 full updates per second (update all particles that need updating, render them) then you can't really press a button to make it 30. It's not up to TPT.

Here's some things you can try though:

Close other demanding processes (browser, video player, Spotify, Skype, stop the antivirus from scanning, etc)
Reduce TPT's load on the processor (open less complex saves, use other display modes than Fire/Fancy)
..don't really do this, but modifying the thread priority may help with speed. This has the consequence of making your system unstable and other dangerous things.
Take a deep breath, and accept the fact that TPT is a game in which the framerate varies a lot during a single simulation, depending on a lot of things. It's what particle simulation is all about!

Other people are suggesting you reduce the delay between two updates, or raise the FPS cap. This has the potential to make your process eat up a lot of processing power and probably make the game very touchy to input. Lowering the FPS cap also lowers the speed at which button presses and stuff are checked, so the user interface gets unresponsive.

h4zardz1

for those ultra fast PC users, if you want to reduce the speed, just reduce the FPS cap. (recommended that FPS cap is above 30)

jacob1

@Voyager15 (View Post)
There is nothing that can be do to just easily speed up the game, if there was we would have done so already. For fast computer users, they can just use tpt.setfpscap, but the default cap is 60 which is nice.

You can use other people's suggestions to make the game run a little faster though, just turn down the settings and run less demanding simulations. Deleting logos and other useless things often speed things up more too.

yocheese

You can speed up or slow down the game using cheat engine!!!!! EVER TPT!!!

jenn4

@yocheese (View Post)
No you can't. If your simulation runs on 30fps, it means your machine can't run the simulation at the wanted 60fps. You cant use software to improve hardware so your fps would improve.

Time Warp