A25 Git extremely slow on Windows 10.

[Yekaterina]

The A25 dev version from git downloaded and compiled itself with reasonable speed. However, actually running the game was extremely slow: it took 10 seconds for the main menu to appear, then another 10 seconds to see the structure tree. When I tried to play a 1v1 with petra bot on Normal Mainland the game took more than 5 minutes to load 23%. 

I wonder if this is caused by it being a debug version, or poor optimisation by the programmers, or outdated git, or just Windows 10 being a rubbish OS?

[Stan`]

6 minutes ago, Yekaterina said:

I wonder if this is caused by it being a debug version, or poor optimisation by the programmers, or outdated git, or just Windows 10 being a rubbish OS?

You got one correct here, but not in the way you think. You need to switch to release

 

The debug build is barely used, because it runs with 0 optimizations.  It also runs extra checks, which make the game slower.

[Freagarach]

I won't fight that last statement.

But the main game comes with pre-cached visuals, while they need to be cached on-the-fly for the development version. That can take a while. Not minutes though.

(And @Stan` reads better.)

Edited May 12, 2021 by Freagarach
Stan` beat me to it.

[Yekaterina]

OK seems like I built it in the wrong way... No wonder so many error messages

[Stan`]

@Yekaterina
there ^