Solving group-related slowdowns?

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:19 am

Whenever a group of more than ~6 ships appears in view - even when they're so far away that they appear as single pixels - the game slows down significantly. I'm not sure what's going on here, but I'm getting the feeling that stuff is being rendered which the player doesn't actually see.

Any ideas what might be the cause of this? Is it buggy performance loss, or just my video card's shortcomings?

Breakable · Post by **Breakable** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:21 am

A good idea:
when faced with performance problem - use a profiler!

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:49 pm

What's a profiler?

Post by **loki1950** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:07 am

A debugging tool that allows you to see which sections of code are executing at which time and how fast they really are usually good for finding bottlenecks and such there are several available.

Enjoy the Choice

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:31 am

Thanks, I'll see if I can find one...

Post by **loki1950** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:45 am

Valgrind should be in your distro's repos not trivial to set up though none of the profilers is easy or intuitive to use that and knowing the code base kinda helps

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