Hey when I played this on my own computer I got fantastic speed and the game was a lot of fun. When I played a server it ran at about 1 tenth of the speed.
What's up with that? It's a small game, small maps, text only. Really shouldn't have any lag at all let alone going this slow.
ID:1199414
 Mar 15 2013, 6:38 pm
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Oh right yeah. I noticed the bots weigh heavy on the server. I'll put it on my ByondPanel sometime and see how it goes.
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Alright, I'm hosting it as I type this. Gonna leave the server up 24/7.
I played it myself and I'm from New Zealand so maybe that's affecting it but the game is unplayable from my computer. It takes a few seconds to recognize that I've attempted to move or shoot. It's an American hosted server, please try it for yourself MagicSofa and you should see what I mean. I currently also host a 24/7 server for Biocrisis which has graphics, overlays, explosions, physics and hundreds of mobs and I can still play it from New Zealand. This is a small Ascii game with 5 mobs on the screen and I can't play it online at all. Kind of sad cause I really like this game. The feeling that I'm getting without looking at your code or setup is that there's a lot of stuff going on in the background that's either not helping or has efficiency problems. Not to dis the game, I love the game but I just can't play it as it currently is. Also, without trying to seem like a negative nancy there's some cool stuff you could do I think which would make the game a lot more friendly. One thing is to let server hosts set their own title, that way people can see the servers they like instead of a generic default name which is ambiguous with the rest. Also, a message of the day would be nice (letting the host set it). I like to stay engaged with people playing my server and let them know about changes I make. Okay, so there's my thoughts today after my hosting attempt. | |
Played again on a different computer, this time I got good speed for 5 seconds and then massive lag and then good speed again. It continued like that for about 30 seconds then just consistently lagged to a unplayable level again.
Also, when 'use graphics hardware' was turned off my screen would switch between blurred and not-blurred, particularly when I was around lava or water. Anything flashing seemed to compound lag. Oh and one more thing, I never respawned unless I exited the game and played again. Don't know what that's about. Would be interesting if you could shed some light on any of this because like I said it's very strange to experience these lag issues with such a simple game. | |
Also, I just tested on my home computer and looked at the CPU usage. It's ridiculous...
Just plain man, this thing eats CPU. I don't know what code you're using but it's mega intensive. Each bot by the way adds about 1.5% CPU usage. This whole game shouldn't use more than 3%. That code needs serious revision man if you ever want it to play smooth or even just play smoother. | |
I may try to make the bot code more efficient, in the next update. However I just went onto the server and added 15 bots. Dream daemon cpu usage was maximum about 11, averaging 6. Dream seeker stayed under 20% regardless of bots. And anyway, this is with 15 bots which is a lot. With 3 it did stay around 3% cpu.
I think this is more of a latency issue, since I can join the server locally and it plays just fine. I'll try to improve the code though, I wonder how old is your computer? | |
Also, the respawning bug is fixed now so that will be in the next update as well
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Thanks for the update on the respawn bug, that helps a lot.
Yeah interesting results. The computer I was using is: Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 System Model: Dell System XPS L502X Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.2GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M | |
Updated to v 0.95
o Fixed not being automatically saved to the admin list when hosting o Fixed the sound bug o Fixed a bug where you became invisible after spectating and re-joining o Fixed the survival game-over loop bug o Minor tweak to bots efficiency o Cleaned up the admin menu + Added server name setting + You can now start on any survival wave | |
Also, the bot code is a bit resource intensive, but with only three bots on the server I don't think that was the issue.
Thanks for letting me know!