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poor performance with kinect sdk and xna (color stream)

I'm trying to make an augmented reality game for advertisement, using the kinect sdk 1.6 and xna 4.0. I need to use the color image format rgb 1280X960, in spite of the fact that it runs at 12fps, ...
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Problem of saturation of ram on XNA?

I developed a small xna games. For some time I have a problem with the saturation of RAM. In fact everything works perfectly, the game runs with a "Frame" of 60fps. But strangely I do not know for ...
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Optimize maximum performance “Frustum.contain ()” on XNA?

I wonder if it is possible to optimize the performance of "BoundingFrustum" requesting return of the visible elements that are found only on the part of the ground before the player .. Checker and not ...
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XNA Kinect Color Stream Performance Issues

I am developing an XNA game using Kinect. It requires using Depth and Color streams for extracting only the player's image from the color image. So far I can extract the image and set their data into ...
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SpriteBatch.Draw with scale or rotation trigger a new batch?

I recently read that any transformation changes will cause a new batch to be triggered. So, if I have 10 Sprites and each has a different rotation or scale will there be 10 batches sent up? Or is ...
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MonoGame performance better then XNA?

I am currently thinking about porting a XNA game to other platforms using MonoGame. Do I understand this correctly that I can expect the game to render faster even under Windows 7 due to the use of ...
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Vector3 vs. Vector2 - performance, usage?

I'm currently playing around with XNA, and creating a simple 2D platformer. I was thinking of adding multiple layers to make it a little bit of challenge. In stead of having a Vector2 for my ...
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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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Improving SpriteBatch performance for tiles

I realize this is a variation on what has got to be a common question, but after reading several (good answers) I'm no closer to a solution here. So here's my situation: I'm making a 2D game which ...
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Information about rendering, batches, the graphical card, performance etc. + XNA?

I know the title is a bit vague but it's hard to describe what I'm really looking for, but here goes. When it comes to CPU rendering, performance is mostly easy to estimate and straightforward, but ...
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Does using the XNA Content Pipline eliminate the overhead caused by file IO when working with a large number of files?

I'm working on a game in XNA with my goal being that it is fairly data driven so that I can easily tweak the system without having to update code. The research I've done shows that using XML files ...
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XNA stuttering at regular intervals

I'm trying to do hardware instancing but I'm hitting some strange performance problem. The average framerate is around 45, but it's extremely choppy. Windowed SynchronizeWithVerticalRetrace = false ...
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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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Windows Phone Performance Analysis makes game run faster. Possible reasons?

A XNA game I was making was running slowly on my WP7 device. However when I started it in Windows Phone Performance Analysis to find the bottleneck, the game ran smoothly on the same device. I ...
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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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Automating XNA Performance Testing?

I was wondering what peoples approaches or thoughts were on automating performance testing in XNA. Currently I am looking at only working in 2d, but that poses many areas where performance can be ...
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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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Fastest way to get all adjacent tiles?

What is the fastest way to get all adjacent tiles in a two-dimensional array of tiles, converted into a single-dimensional array? If you don't know the answer, then the fastest way to do it in a ...
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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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How should I manage events in XNA on the Windows Phone 7 without impacting performance?

It's best-practice to not to create lots of short-lived temporary objects the heap as it'll eventually force a garbage collection during game-play. It is best to create short lived value objects. ...
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Farseer: what are its performance on xbox360?

Are there any performance issue related with lots of "new" calls and things like that? Did anyone test it? Something to take care of? Thanks