SwiftXShadow Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 For some reason my game slows down to a quite unbeareble level when i get to a very foresty aeria. Normally like where the pigs are around there. It is honestly so bad that i avoid that place like the plague. How to fix that?Intel® Core i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.0 GHz Performance Rated at: 5.00 GHzRAM 8.1 GBMicrosoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bitGeForce GT 540M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatYggdrasil Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 same problem here BUT you can chop down a lot of trees to minimize the slow down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftXShadow Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 same problem here BUT you can chop down a lot of trees to minimize the slow downthat will take forever... i set the entire forest on fire hoping to fix it but that didnt do much, well it did get me through the night with out a campfire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excess Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Intel® Core i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.0 GHz Performance Rated at: 5.00 GHzRAM 8.1 GBMicrosoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bitGeForce GT 540MThat sounds like a machine that could beat Kasparov in a hand-to-hand chess game.I think the problem here isn't about the machines, several of us have pretty decent rigs and yet experiences low FPS while in heavy forested areas. I think it's a limitation of Chrome. Fortunately, the game will most likely launch on Steam when ready. Unfortunately, it's not ready Could you tell us your general FPS and your forest FPS? You can activate a FPS counter typing about:flags on the address bar and activating the option FPS counter. That may help the devs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Kevin Posted October 4, 2012 Developer Share Posted October 4, 2012 You can toggle the game's debug rendering by pressing backspace. When the debug rendering is enabled, there is a rough performance breakdown in the top right hand corner of the screen- it tells you how many milliseconds it took to render and how many it took to update the simulation. If these two numbers add up to more than 32, your game slows down.When you are experiencing the slowdown, what do the numbers say? They jump around a lot, so they can be a bit hard to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyD Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 (edited) I had a slow down today. LAGGING in game.Never happened before and I wasn't even in a hard to render area. Grasslands with nothing but yellow ahead.It was weird. Never lagged in game before...EDIT- its not my computer... I BUILT this... My Frankenstein Monster shall NOT fail me!!! Edited October 5, 2012 by LadyD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excess Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 If these two numbers add up to more than 32, your game slows down.No wonder my forest is laggy, my "update" number in 47 flashing 50's. Also, the date is all wrong down there, I took this screenshot today, 4th of October O_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explosivelimes Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 The game gets super slow for me too. I thought originally it had something to do with the fog around graves which are usually within heavily forested areas. Typically when I leave said fog the games speeds back up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Kevin Posted October 5, 2012 Developer Share Posted October 5, 2012 The date is the build date for your executable, not the current date.Interestingly, from your screenshot it looks like the physics system is what is slow. I wonder what's causing that - I would have guessed it was either rendering or the game scripts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatYggdrasil Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 maybe the movement of the trees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excess Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 (edited) The date is the build date for your executable, not the current date.Oh, that makes sense.Interestingly, from your screenshot it looks like the physics system is what is slow. I wonder what's causing that - I would have guessed it was either rendering or the game scripts.The pigs don't had anything to do with it, there weren't with me when the lag started. It's the forest. I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say it's the shadows. I didn't experienced this kind of lag in previous builds, when the shadows where broken and appeared whenever they wanted. A lot of trees, a lot of shadows. Also, at night the lag ain't that bad. Edited October 5, 2012 by Excess I accidentally a word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Kevin Posted October 5, 2012 Developer Share Posted October 5, 2012 From the numbers in your screenshot, it looks like you are rendering the shadows fast enough. I think you are encountering another, more sinister bug. I'll PM you to see if we can get some more info about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Kevin Posted October 5, 2012 Developer Share Posted October 5, 2012 OK, I've looked into Excess' save file, and managed to bring the physics timing from ~4ms to <1ms on my machine. So, yay!Poking something as fundamental as the physics system necessitates a lot of testing, so I don't want to push a hotfix. You should see these changes with the next normal update, which is on the 16th.Thanks for the feedback, guys! We have a limited range of hardware to test things on at the office, and most of the computers that we have are beefy development machines. It's very helpful to know when people are having performance problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explosivelimes Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Super excited about this. I do tend to avoid areas that run slowly, it'll be nice to actually explore those now. Woo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Kevin Posted October 5, 2012 Developer Share Posted October 5, 2012 Note - this won't help you if your problem is graphics-related. You can tell which camp you are in by looking at which is the higher of your update and render times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excess Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Yay, no more running naked in slo-mo through the forest! Glad I could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excess Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Yay, no more running naked in slo-mo through the forest! Glad I could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptCalavera Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Have the same problem in fog and dense forests. And in pig villages since last update. Hope this will help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leothorn Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 I think thread is related to the problem i posted somewhere else in the forum . My Update time is hovering around 35-40 while rendering i at 10-12 . So I guess my problem will be addressed when this problem is hot-fixed ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cellusious Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 alot of trees are causing lag, and i got a pretty good pc.burned them all down, that fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinmist Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 I have a computer with well more than enough to play run 50 games of this quality at once. Although it does get a bit slow i noticed. It is probably because it is running in a browser atm , what does it run flash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Kevin Posted October 16, 2012 Developer Share Posted October 16, 2012 How does the latest build (67554) run? Are the forests any more playable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptCalavera Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Forests and pig villages work great for me now. Graveyards with fog are still laggy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Kevin Posted October 16, 2012 Developer Share Posted October 16, 2012 Forests and pig villages work great for me now. Graveyards with fog are still laggy though.Awesome! Can you take a look at the relative update and render timings in the fog areas? I think that's a different issue than the one that I fixed, but I want to confirm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptCalavera Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 (edited) Screenshot good enough?Less laggy when I went in to the fog this time though. Edited October 16, 2012 by cptCalavera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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