Loading Resources externally to improve performance

[♫Sani Sani Disco♫]

So one reason the game is slow is that it's in Game Maker.

Another notable reason is that everything is precached and the game is bloated. We can solve both those problems at the same time if we keep only the essentials in the game (Like ctf mode and game-essential objects and scripts) to make it a little easier on the game. Also it can still stay bloated.

Or at least the sound files those are huge and shitty

[Isumi]

so keep the essentials inside the game but make the less important stuff external so reduce lag, if it reduces lag i dont see why not

[♫Sani Sani Disco♫]

The biggest problem is that it's a long and tedious process.

[Isumi]

then this probably isnt going to happen considering how lazy every one here is 

[NAGN]

Externaly loading through Game Maker's notoriously slow parser isn't going to do much other than make map switching and boot up times much longer

That being said, its rather simple to dump all the materials (backgrounds , sounds, and sprites) to an external folder and load them on the fly, but considering the fact that you need nearly all recourses anyways other than external maps, which are dynamically unloaded and reloaded between maps anyways, I don't really see the reasoning behind that

And no that won't boost framerates. I don't even see how that logically boosts framerates

[Humble Master]

Don't know if this would work. What if you put all the sound and sprites and whatnot into a plugin that then loaded the resources onto GG2 as needed? We already have the programing for Plugins so it wouldn't need an exessive amount of modifications.

[NAGN]

that would actually make it even slower, because parsing gml into gml is reallly really slow, from the actual importing feature being slow and frame locked as well

not only that but there's no reason to do so anyways. The only problem is that GG2 takes up an excessive amount of memory, but that wouldn't cause a decrease of speed, and even that wouldn't solve it considering mostly everything has to be preloaded anyways