Are backgrounds more effecent that actors?

I have a large actor that I'm realizing could just be a background, but I'm trying to keep the scene from getting laggy so which would be more efficient?

I'd say background, or better yet, an image.

Image?  Is that new?

No, it's the Image API

Yeah, after you mentioned it I looked it up on Stencylpedia, but I found it confusing to say the least.  Is there maybe a video tutorial?

It's complex to get your head around at first, but as soon as it clicks its actually very straight forward.

Try https://www.youtube.com/user/TheIndieStation

Thanks, that had some good info in it, though not really anything about images.  Though I had a thought, are Tilesets similar to images in terms of memory usage?

Not sure. Backgrounds are probably lighter than tiles.

Ok, thanks I'll try that.

Edit, ok I got it to work, just this is basic behavior took sooo much trial and error.  Thought I better post it in case someone else has the same difficulty.