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You may be using the video card to help with tasks other than rendering the game, as the video card usage reaches 15%.

When performing an evolution with many entities, the time per generation is wrong because of the slowdown due to the amount of entities. And to solve this problem it is necessary to optimize or separate the tasks to be carried out, which can be done with the cpu cores. Instead of a single core having to perform the calculations for 100 entities, let the task be divided equally among the other available cores. My computer contains 14 cores, each core could be performing the calculations of approximately 7 entities instead of 100. When performing the evolution with the quoted amount, the game only uses:

CPU -  10%-15%  -- 65% available

GPU -  4%-8%  -- 86% available

MEM -  2%-3%  -- 93% available

it is visible when you have around 100 entities and quote 5 seconds per generation, which in the end takes 12 seconds to switch to the next generation.

I would recommend relying on the computer's internal time for the time to work properly.

if (startTime - currentTime >= GenerationTime)
    nextGeneration()

One more idea, when saving the evolution of a body, the name of the evolution is the name of the body, date and generation. which I would like it to be possible to change how the saved name will be, an example would be the name of the body, generation and structure of the neural network

I don't know if you are still performing updates or if you will see this, but one idea I have would be to be able to change the neural network of an evolution.

With this, it would be possible to teach the basics of body movement with a simple neural structure and further on leaving the neural network more complex and taking advantage of the previous knowledge used

I wanted to know where the game save is, so I can change the skin.