Performance problems in alpha 17?

[JuKu96]

I have download the source from the svn repo and tried out the development version alpha 17, but i think the alpha 17 has many performance problems?

Alpha 16 loads faster than 1 sec., Alpha 17 needs more than 6 seconds, by loading or creating a new game, its the same.

At the loading the ui is also not loaded completly, the ui itself will be loaded by loading a game.

If I have loaded a game, the textures arent load, the load in the next 6 seconds.

Is this only in the development version causes by compilation or no zipping?

I attached 3 images.

[Stan`]

The source needs time to cache texture, while A16 has precached texture. Hopefully when the game gets zipped and packaged, this is no longer visible.

[niektb]

It is no longer visible in the release.

[serveurix]

AFAIK svn version only needs to cache the textures once, so if you launch the game a second time, the cached textures should take less time to load.

Right after you install a svn version, you can launch the "Units Demo" demo map and wait for a few seconds. This will cache the textures of all units and buildings of the game at once.

Edited October 11, 2014 by serveurix

[JuKu96]

How can I launch the Units Demo?

[JuKu96]

At the second start of the game the game loads faster!

But if I would save the game I get this error message:

Function call failed: return value was -100407 (Symbol nesting too deep or infinite recursion)Location: wdbg_sym.cpp:1455 (udt_dump_normal)Call stack:While generating an error report, we encountered a second problem. Please be sure to report both this and the subsequent error messages.errno = 34 (?)OS error = 0 (no error code was set)

The second error message was

error while formatting the error message.

What means this error message?

Edited October 11, 2014 by JuKu96

[historic_bruno]

When you try to save, are you playing with an AI? Does it always fail to save, or only sometimes? Does it make a difference if you play without an AI?

When it fails to save like that, please attach the crashlogs, as you did for failing to load a saved game.

[JuKu96]

Yes, I played with an AI.

But makes it sense to play an single player game without an AI?

It often fails to save the game.

Edited October 12, 2014 by JuKu96

[serveurix]

 

How can I launch the Units Demo?

 

It's in the scenario demo maps.

[JuKu96]

thanks!

[historic_bruno]

Yes, I played with an AI.

But makes it sense to play an single player game without an AI?

I'm only asking for testing purposes

[JuKu96]