Ipad Cross resolution with GPU rendermode

[shoey1432]

Using Flash CS6 and the newest air sdk v14.

My 1024x768 air for iPad app gains a dramatic performance boost when render mode GPU is enabled. However if I set resolution to high the app is only half the screen size on the new 2048x1536 iPads, and if I set to standard the quality is bad.

Direct and cpu render modes have pretty bad performance on all iPads. It's just very simple app, just images buttons and videos in their simplest form with a few page in and out tweens..

Is there any solution to getting good performance & quality on both iPad resolutions?

Thanks,

Matt

[Colin Holgate]

stage has scale modes. You're currently setting that to "noscale". Don't do that.

[shoey1432]

Thanks for your reply.

I did not set any scalemode, so unless there is a setting somewhere that's changing it when publishing the .ipa file it's still the default 'showAll'.

[Colin Holgate]

showall should scale the app to fill Retina screens. Look around for anywhere that the scalemode is being changed.

[shoey1432]

The scalemode is still 'showAll' when I read the property value while the app is running. Could something else cause this? Perhaps the version of air?

I'm assuming if my stage size is 2048x1536 it will fix for retina iPads but will only see 1/4 of the app on older iPads, not to mention needing to get new 2x larger assets for all my images.

[Colin Holgate]

I have done quite a lot of apps, with either showall or noborder. They all work ok on Retina screens.

Can you post a simple test app somewhere, that shows the problem?

[shoey1432]

As it turns out the problem is NOT due to the GPU setting.. my mistake sorry.. I accused this setting as the problem forgetting I had also changed the video code!

The real reason for the problem is because I am now using stageVideo, which plays a video when the app starts on the 1st frame.

I moved the video to the 2nd frame so now the app is fine on the 1st frame with the GPU setting yet the problem returns on the 2nd frame, stageVideo causes the entire app to be permanently shrunk to half its size in the top left corner on retina screens.

Is there a solution for this, or alternative to stageVideo?

Other than this issue stageVideo works much better than the video player code I was previously using. The mp4 videos are packaged with the app, I need to play high quality videos.

[shoey1432]

I am using the stageVideo code from the sample file in this post:

video playback on iPad 2?

[shoey1432 · Accepted solution]

I started a new thread with a different title to better reflect the problem here:

stageVideo with Retina display shrinks app