for me the timescale mode works perfectly. Could be because i just reduced the resolution to 640x480 and used 2x window...
But yeah when you bump up the resolution the game slows down...

I really haven't noticed anything to dislike about timescale mode. Is it supposed to skip frames or something? Because it doesn't. It only kicks ass.

CC is a TOTALLY different game for me now. So great, because I get tired of games pretty fast.

Me too. I've been playing with timescaling on all the time, but just yesterday I gave it a go and it wasnt so cool after all. I mean yeah, it was 1.00 speed, but the choppyness just wasnt worth it. Although now I use it if I want to "speed things up" for a moment.

On top of that, playing CC at normal speed is slightly harder than usual.

EDIT: I also keep my resolution low(640x480) when playing a normal game.
I only use higher resolutions when I'm making maps/bunkers.

Well duh - that should be a reason to have it normal! Games aren't fun when they're easy.

uhm, you ended up chopping that quote wrong. numgun said that, not me. -_-;;
in other news, because this laptop mauls CC, i can play in 1.00x timescale most of the time anyway. promgrounds is completely lagless for me, which initially meant i had to go grab a lot more accuracy and speed to be able to survive, but now im better at CC. woot.
now, im off to bed. its two in the ♥♥♥♥ morning. modding contest can wait <_<

The timescaling annoys me a lot at times so I try to play with timescaling off but at 0.70-0.80 instead of 1.00 so that it doesn't get too ridiculous.

So sorry, but which is sposed to lag:

One sim update per frame, or not that one?

Thanks

Depends on your definiton of lag. In timescaling mode (one sim update per frame), everything can move very slowly if your timescale is very low, but you won't have frameskipping. Without timescaling, the speed of the game is preserved, but you may experience bad frameskipping.
I tend to think of frameskipping as lag, so non-timescale mode is very laggy according to me.

Ya, id say the choppy version is worse, cuz when the game lags from too many particles, it skips like 50 frames..

I usually use timescaling, and like it most of the time too. When playing on a slower computer though, I turn it off and timescale it manually. Still haven't figured out all of the little variables like Deltatime and Sim updates per frame or whatever. Anyone like to clear that up, or is it not really that useful for optimizing?

I've never played with them, because they alter the game loop itself, but if you increase DeltaTime by small increments (0.005-ish) you might be able to reach a happy medium where the game isn't impacted too much but runs at a decent framerate.

My game is slow-as-hell with timescaling, yet doesn't skip a single detectable frame without. I don't understand how that works. Could my computer just be better at one sort of graphics computing than another?

By the way, I REALLY mean slow. Like 1 in game second takes 6.

Probably something's up with how the framerate detection thing works on your machine. If the computer thinks you're getting horrible framerate without timescaling, it'll turn timescaling down, so if it's working incorrectly it'll turn it down for no reason.

I play with timescale, as it doesn't seem to lag when it's on unless I MAKE it lag.

I use the sounds to tell

According to the messages,i think i should try that Ctrl+O thing....