Memory usage
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Azurian
The Azurian
SVN 6103, 4GB RAM, Windows 64 bit.
The initial loading (getting to menu screen) went from 5 minutes to about 40 seconds. wow, C2C loaded really fast!
The initial loading (getting to menu screen) went from 5 minutes to about 40 seconds. wow, C2C loaded really fast!
strategyonly
C2C Supreme Commander
Watch your spelling, its important when doing XML, i am just getting you used to making sure is all, ok, no biggy here, but in the committing it would have been
One thing i have noticed though is the turn times have INCREASED. I know compromise is one thing, but heck, i like both!!
Il Principe
Prince
I also noticed a turn time increase with the new automated version, compared to the manually set fixed radius version.
The price for easier scrolling I suppose.
The price for easier scrolling I suppose.
Each turn slice IF you have moved the view at all since the previous turn slice, but its very low cost. I'm pretty sure he is imagining it. If someone can do timings on the SAME save game in the SAME turn and demonstrate this I'll look into it, but given the nature of the code it's implausible at least if you have 'minimize AI turn times' on (it's more plausible but still very very improbable if you don't). If you don; move the view while the turn is processing it is never called at all.
Il Principe
Prince
Don´t have the time to check it with various settigns ( vieport, paging) now, but I think it is not the recalculating of paging needs that makes my turns slower ( not uch..talking maybe 10 to 30 sec here), but the design of the auto paging using all available resources, and cutting stuff if it runs out of those.
The manual setting could be set values that left a lot of memory room, at the cost of more/longer in-turn loadings.
I wouldn´t worry too much about it, since I think total turn time didn´t change. End turn time got longer, but in-turn jumping of views got faster, canceling each other out.
The manual setting could be set values that left a lot of memory room, at the cost of more/longer in-turn loadings.
I wouldn´t worry too much about it, since I think total turn time didn´t change. End turn time got longer, but in-turn jumping of views got faster, canceling each other out.
It should stick just over 2G now unless you modify the global define values, unless that isn't enough even with everything but what is immediately visible pages out.
If it operated reliably for you up to 2.8 you might benefit from setting the threshold it trims to a bit higher than the 2g that it is currently set to. I chose 2g to be a bit conservative, because I was seeing memory allocation at around 2.5, and I wanted to leave a float because it can only adjust at the start of every time slice, so the ai usage for one turn can always add into that before it gets a chance to trim back again.
Just to give you designers a heads up: I wanted to improve my pc performance, I have a diesel gaming laptop ($3000), but its getting pretty old now.
I've been fideling with my computer for ages trying to optimize performance. Today, I installed PC Matic (you know like on TV) and I just came back from martial arts class so I can see how it is going to handle my gaming.
BTW, PC Matic, specifically identified Caveman to Cosmos as the only program on my computer as "highly fragmented" and then it compressed the distance to read better. The program said the issue is fixed. This is from the defragmentation part of the fix.
I would say there are only two things slowing down Caveman to Cosmos and it isn't the amount of data. (My Skyrim game is like 15.5 GB compared to C2C's 1-1.5 GB...).
I would say it is the distance of the files, not compressed enough, and the beyond horrible gamebryo engine. I hate this gaming engine. If someone can tell me how I can get civ 4 to run on one or two processors that would help, that usually helps with the horrible engine, also used on other games.
EDIT: I'm already experiencing huge performance increase. The Sevopedia has much less lag for example, about to start up a new game.
I've been fideling with my computer for ages trying to optimize performance. Today, I installed PC Matic (you know like on TV) and I just came back from martial arts class so I can see how it is going to handle my gaming.
BTW, PC Matic, specifically identified Caveman to Cosmos as the only program on my computer as "highly fragmented" and then it compressed the distance to read better. The program said the issue is fixed. This is from the defragmentation part of the fix.
I would say there are only two things slowing down Caveman to Cosmos and it isn't the amount of data. (My Skyrim game is like 15.5 GB compared to C2C's 1-1.5 GB...).
I would say it is the distance of the files, not compressed enough, and the beyond horrible gamebryo engine. I hate this gaming engine. If someone can tell me how I can get civ 4 to run on one or two processors that would help, that usually helps with the horrible engine, also used on other games.
EDIT: I'm already experiencing huge performance increase. The Sevopedia has much less lag for example, about to start up a new game.
strategyonly
C2C Supreme Commander
Il Principe
Prince
At least I think I get the fragmentation part. Especially with SVN the C2C files probably get way more fragementation then other games, because you write over them so often. IF this really makes much of a difference would depend on your computer, mostly the hard drive.
Azurian
The Azurian
I hope someone knows what the heck he is talking about, i am lost
He is talking about Disk Fragmentation, which is a standard computer maintenance program. If you have a normal hard drive to need to Defrag your hard drive at least once every 1-2 weeks.
Download this program called Smart Defrag, its free.
http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html
I hope someone knows what the heck he is talking about, i am lost
Defrag the mod.
God-Emperor
Deity
Since Windows 7 (or possibly Vista) it automatically defragments your drives once per week. Well, I think that is the default - you can change it to some other interval or turn it off. It defaults to something like "1 am on Wednesdays" and if your computer is not on at the time it is scheduled to start it might not be doing it.
The point isn't just to defragment the individual files, I believe, but to make sure that all the files are located relatively close to each other as well. This is one of the reasons a lot of games pack their small resource files into larger (uncompressed) packs.
Yup, circa 700M is what it costs to load the map and all the assets with more or less no graphic - it's roughly the floor memory usage of the mod.
strategyonly
C2C Supreme Commander
Not needed as GE said above, in Win 7/8 it does it automatically now.
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