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DRY 0-bandwidth-overhead-serialization in C#: virtual, delegates or reflection?

I'm (de)serializing some datastructures for a network-multiplayer game, and for each datastructure that's to be (de)serialized, I want to define the order of (de)serialization only once for ...
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Vector2's static methods and the garbage collector

I discovered that Vector2's static methods return a different Vector2 from the parameters you give them and I'm under the impression that creating new objects and dereferencing old ones on this kind ...
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How many BasicEffects do you have in a Game? What is the best way to render multiple objects/shapes at once?

I'm trying to understand 3D rendering and it seems that everytime you render a new object (A 3D Cube or something) you need to have a new BasicEffect for each Box you render unless you want the exact ...
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What kind of performance issues does multiple instances of the exact same object have on a game?

I'm fairly new to programming, and I've pretty much learned all the things I know on the go, while working on projects. The problem is that there some things that I just don't know where to begin ...
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Higher Performance With Spritesheets Than With Rotating Using C# and XNA 4.0?

I would like to know what the performance difference is between using multiple sprites in one file (sprite sheets) to draw a game-character being able to face in 4 directions and using one sprite ...
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Xna performance [closed]

I'm thinking about starting to write a game and my primary concern is performance. I was thinking about writing it in xna (client), and then also writing the server in c#. Will this be fast enough for ...
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A* algorithm very slow

I have an programming a RTS game (I use XNA with C#). The pathfinding is working fine, except that when it has a lot of node to search in, there is a lag period of one or two seconds, it happens ...
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Why does using multithreading during my load screen increase my load times? [closed]

OK, I added a loading screen to my game, and in order for the game able to update and show a loading screen and load stuff in the background I came to the concludsion that I needed to host the loading ...
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XNA game randomly drops to 40fps

I have a fairly straight forward 2D game written in XNA. I'm finding that it arbitrarily drops from 60fps to 40fps. I've tested this drop extensively and have concluded it's not related to graphics ...
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Computing volumetric light effects analytically

In my previous question I have asked about an effect on how to visualize light spheres. The question resulted in a very nice formulated answer which described pretty well how to achieve this by adding ...
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Designing a flexible tile-based engine

I'm trying to create a flexible tile-based game engine to make all sorts of non-realtime puzzle games, just as Bejeweled, Civilization, Sokoban, and so on. The first approach I had was to have a 2D ...