[Peformance]Poor FPS on the cloth map

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Hello,

I've seen alot of complaints about how the game runs when it's zoomed in below the cloth map but i've not seen one about poor performance ON the cloth map. Infact i think i heard one of you say in the video tutorials that you had to code in a frame limiter just to stop the frame rate from going stupidly high and stressing the system more than it needed to.

Here's a screenshot with an FPS overlay:

 

So yeah, 9 FPS on the cloth map.

 

System Specs:

OS: Windows 7 x64

Processor : AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition x4 3.4Ghz

RAM: 4GB 1333Mhz DDR3

Video Card: Asus ATI Radeon 5870 1024MB

Not sure what else is relevant really.

 

Also i'm still expriencing the out of memory crash after about 250 turns. It's been aleviated a little since the last patch, before it would crash just under 200.

 

I think we can agree that my computer should be more than upto the task of rendering the cloth map at a decent frame rate atleast. Considering you designed it for low end PCs and notebooks.

 

link to my debur.err file on pastebin

link to a few crash dumps from yesterday

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

How is your performance without stacking jewelry for near-unlimited sight range?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Necromancy. I know...

I've just gotten back to reading replies after loosing interest in elemental for a while and now coming back to it with the 1.1 patch looming.

 

Anyway the jewelry makes almost no difference at all. I was using it at the time to see if the amount of monsters was the cause or not, there's another picture of the same world that I posted where the entire map is pretty much completely saturated in monster pins.

But anyway i'm sure you devs have tweaked the code enough that it behaves now and I should hopefully be able to play the game once 1.1 goes live. (i'm still getting memory leak related crashes in 1.9E)

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