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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0004101 | Valley 1 | Note To Test | Sep 27, 2011 3:16 pm | Sep 27, 2011 3:42 pm | |
| Reporter | leb0fh | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Product Version | 0.501 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.502 | ||||
| Summary | 0004101: Lag On First-Load Of Larger Rooms | ||||
| Description | When I load into a new area/room along the lines of Pyramids and "Maze Rooms" I get a good couple of second lag before it lets me in (I assume it's generating the room?) - is this normal? incase it's something specific to my setup, I'm running Windows 7 x64, 8GB ram, GF460GTX, SSD drive | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | New | ||||
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It's generating the room, yes. I wouldn't expect that much lag, but it's going to be processor dependent. That's definitely not out of the normal range, as maze generation requires a lot of operations. |
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I get the same thing on a Vista 64bit, 8GB RAM, GeForce GTX 460, "normal" harddrive. |
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Yes, it's all a computational thing, nothing to do with the hard drive or GPU and not much to do with RAM. It just takes it a bit to generate this big complex room from scratch. |
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Purely out of curiosity... When is it decided what the room will look like? At the generation of the world (i.e. a seed is placed in the room and no matter when you go there, the same room will be generated) or when you first enter the room (i.e. it's not randomised from a seed but as the game goes on)? |
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It's a mix of most of the above. The general policy for this game is to "lazy generate" as much as possible. This has the advantage of general speed of creating new worlds and regions and such, and it also has the advantage that when you first enter a new region on a new version of the game, you get the latest version content. Versus you having to wait for regions you haven't been into yet. In terms of rooms and such in any dungeon, the overall dungeon map of the whole building is generated at once (when you first enter the building), and so there is some basic data in that (what general type of room, etc -- stairways, halls, etc). The actual details of any room aren't filled in until you step into the room for the first time, though. Otherwise generating a new building would be something like a 30+ second affair, and with frequent updates your existing buildings would not take on the newer improvements. And your world file would get much larger much faster for no real reason. With the lazy generation system, if you stop in the middle of the building, then we do a patch that adds a bunch of new stuff to rooms in buildings of that sort, then you load up and continue exploring that building, the unexplored rooms will have the new content while the previously-explored ones will largely not. |
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Pretty much every part of the world, be it an outside chunk or an interior layout is created only just before you need it. This means your computer isn't spending time creating rooms and chunks you aren't ever going to go into anyway. |
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I should have pointed out in the initial report my processor isn't slow (4.4GHz Core i7) - I will assume though that your original response still stands and it's just a result of having such a (potentially) huge game :) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Sep 27, 2011 3:16 pm | leb0fh | New Issue | |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:19 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Internal Weight | => New |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:19 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0013959 | |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:19 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => closed |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:19 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:19 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => no change required |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:19 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Fixed in Version | => 0.502 |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:21 pm | Toll | Note Added: 0013963 | |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:25 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0013967 | |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:35 pm | Toll | Note Added: 0013968 | |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:40 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0013970 | |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:42 pm | tigersfan | Note Added: 0013972 | |
| Sep 27, 2011 3:42 pm | leb0fh | Note Added: 0013973 |
