Save battery on mobile

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What's the best way to save battery life on a very simple game? I lowered graphics settings to the minimum and and I capped the framerate to 60 fps but the game still burns 1% of the battery per minute.

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Answer by SpectreX · Aug 20, 2014 at 12:11 AM

You should use 30 fps instead, it's not that noticeable and if you want to lower the energy draw that's a way to cut your battery leeching. Also you might look into optimizing your scrips, lowering pixel counts where you don't need them in your textures, etc.

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Bonfi_96 · Aug 20, 2014 at 12:23 AM 0

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I lowered the framerate to 45-50 fps, it's a fast paced game and the difference between that and 30 fps i very noticeable :) The scripts are optimized and and no "find" methods or similar are in any Update. About lowering pixel counts, well... all the textures of my game are well packed in a 56Kb file and there are no 3d models in the only scene the game is made of. I'd like to ask you what other optimizations I could do to the scripts? Btw thanks for your answer!

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Answer by Bonfi_96 · Aug 22, 2014 at 07:31 PM

Setting the rendering path to "Vertex lit" seemed to decrease battery usage by 50% on some devices. This choice was suitable to my game because I'm not using any light, shadows or lightmap.

If you want to use this option in your game I reccomend to do various tests to verify it's effectivity.

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