List of things that slow down GE plz.

[blendenzo]

From an old thread:

@blendenzo

The largest causes of long load time are

• large textures
• large .wav sound files
• high face count or object count
• complex armaturesThe largest causes of slow framerates are
• poor OpenGL support (make sure you have the newest driver for your card from the manufacturer, not from Microsoft or the OSS community)
• lots of physics (the more collision enabled faces the slower the game)
• large or wrongly sized textures (always use dimensions that are powers of 2, generally keep dimensions to a max of 1024x1024)
• high face count
• complex armatures
• code errors (check the console window for error reports)
• duplication and unnecessary firing of logic bricks

Also, I take issue with a couple of items already in the list

@Wunderlust"

9. Logic Bricks in general (use python)

This is simply not true. Please remove it from the list. See these two links for more information on the subject:
http://www.blendenzo.com/tutPyVsLogic.html
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showpost.php?p=894858&postcount=30
I especially recommend the second link for anyone hoping to increase the speed of their game.

@Wunderlust"

13. Running the game engine under linux.

To the best of my knowledge, this is because of graphics drivers, not because of Blender.