Strange BufferStrategy issue - Game runs fast only on Intel GPUs

Question

I ran into a very strange problem, I tried searching for an answer for days and days. My game just got a new particle system, but was too slow to be playable. Unfortunately, Buf

Answer 1

Check the size of the pictures compared to the caches, and try to diagnose the number of cache misses. Read up on data oriented design, it's usually a part of that.

An alternative is to change the way you do the explosions to a way where you don't load in 200 sprites and spread them out (do you reuse them, or do you load them every time you do an explosion?). Making an animated explosion takes less power, though it might not be as spectacular, and you would need to do some animating then.

Java also isn't the most optimal language for making games. You're working very high level, and the JVM slows things down a bit. My friends had similar problems when making small games, it was difficult to make a game that didn't lag tons.