Hello!

I have created a small aquarium in PICO8, with the idea of running it on a corner of my desktop while I work on other stuff. But I have noticed that PICO-8 runs much slower when it is not the window under focus.

Is this Working-As-Intended behavior? I can understand the reasoning, but I would like to have pico8 run at full speed even when not under focus - is there a way to do that?

Cheers!

i havent noticed this on windows 10(but i have 32gb of ram so i have more than enough overhead), system info might help get an answer

Pretty sure this "as designed" - in fact, I find it quite useful for debugging now and then as it slows down the draw rate! ;)

As for overriding it? I'm not aware of a way, one for zep to answer.

Can confirm this happens on Ubuntu 16.04 with 12GB RAM too. Standard 30FPS loop runs at about 15FPS when unfocused. Doesn't bother me to be honest :D

Happened in Windows 7 too.
It seems it is really intentional.
No problem for me usually, except when playing idle game in PICO-8.

Being able to have a small aquarium running in the corner of the screen is a really strong argument for making this customizable. I'll add a config.txt option for 0.1.11.

Cool! I'd appreciate this feature as well.

I had checked the docs since I thought it already was a customizable thing. But I guess Zep would know that :p

Thank you, zep!

any interest in posting the aquarium?

I actually had already posted it :-)

But here is the link again

Actually, I just posted an updated version there.

Huh, did not see this in the changelog... Did you add that?