framerate dramatically slowing down in some map areas...

[WARCHILD_89]

Hey guys,

I use the flashlight by "the zombie killer" and somehow for unknown reason it slows down my framerate to a dia show and every frame is seen at least for 2 seconds...with other words: the game becomes unplayable slow, even very simple designed areas and redesigning the area does not work.... does anybody have an idea why this happens?


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[WARCHILD_89]

okay, I figured out it has definitely something to to with the Action I´m Using

ACTOR FlashLightBeam
{
+NOGRAVITY
+NOCLIP
+NOBLOCKMAP
+DONTSPLASH
+THRUACTORS
Renderstyle None
Radius 1
Height 1
States
{
Spawn:
TNT1 AABC 1 A_AlertMonsters(10.0)//Alert monsters causes the flashlight to slow down the game in some areas for unknown reason
Stop
}
}


The point is, the flashlight works fine when removing the "Alert Monsters" action....

[Popsoap]

A_AlertMonsters(10.0)//Alert monsters causes the flashlight to slow down the game in some areas for unknown reason

Was the area populated heavily with monsters? This looks like it was doing a ton of distance checks for alerting them.

[WARCHILD_89]

There are no monsters in these areas, the areas are empty because at the moment the map design has priority and is under construction, I have only a few finished areas with lots of things (Monsters, Linedefs, Skybox viewpoints, dynamic lights.....) and I got no problems, so why is it slowing down in an area containing absolutely nothing?

[WARCHILD_89]

A_AlertMonsters(10.0)//Alert monsters causes the flashlight to slow down the game in some areas for unknown reason

Was the area populated heavily with monsters? This looks like it was doing a ton of distance checks for alerting them.

I found a solution, it´s not perfect but much better now. Problematical areas are still lagging, but less. The game stays playable. I changed the code to reduce the distance checks. They are now made randomly, so the number of checks depend on the value I set:


ACTOR FlashLightBeam
{
projectile
+NOGRAVITY
//+NOCLIP
+NOBLOCKMAP
+DONTSPLASH
+THRUACTORS
+PAINLESS
Speed 14
Renderstyle "None"
Radius 4
Height 4
States
{
Spawn:
TNT1 AABC 1
goto Death
Death:
TNT1 A 0 A_jump(100,"AlertMonster") // "100" is the random value reaching from 0 to 256 as known.
Stop
AlertMonster:
TNT1 A 0 A_AlertMonsters(15.0)
Stop
}
}

However it has a silly but logical side effect:
The lower the value, the less the game will lag in the problematical areas, but the monsters will also have a random time to react, when being illuminated...

So You see it is still not a perfect solution, but a little improvement.

[edward850]

This could be debugged if you uploaded an example wad.

[WARCHILD_89]

Yes but how and where.....

I also changed the code to make the flashlight be bullet puffs, not missiles and it works, but alerting monsters does still not work.

[edward850]

Yes but how and where.....

To any file shearing service you deemed fit. If you honestly don't know any, point your browser to dropbox and start there.

[WARCHILD_89]

problem solved.

I have to buy a more powerful computer, this is the solution.

[cocka]

If you honestly don't know any, point your browser to dropbox and start there.

And how about Google drive? I haven't found file hosting service with so high uploading speed and stability.

Storage space at least 15 GB and there is no file size limit and of course they won't delete your files if someone hasn't downloaded them for at least 90 days.

[WARCHILD_89]

could give it a try .... thanks