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Jasoco wrote:

bartbes wrote:Garbage collection, perhaps?

Is there anything I can do to stop it happening like that? It causes noticeable framerate lag when it happens.

You could experiment with calling [manual]collectgarbage[/manual] every frame.

Robin wrote:

Jasoco wrote:

bartbes wrote:Garbage collection, perhaps?

Is there anything I can do to stop it happening like that? It causes noticeable framerate lag when it happens.

You could experiment with calling [manual]collectgarbage[/manual] every frame.

Unfortunately that ends up lowering the framerate drastically. Where I get mostly 95% smooth framerate before, it drops the overall FPS to 20-30.

Edit: I tried putting it on a cron timer and it still still slowed it down. I really need to figure out what it's cleaning up and why it's constantly creating it. Something is dirtying up the global space. Probably my old crappy coding methods.

Jasoco wrote:

Robin wrote:

Jasoco wrote: Is there anything I can do to stop it happening like that? It causes noticeable framerate lag when it happens.

You could experiment with calling [manual]collectgarbage[/manual] every frame.

Unfortunately that ends up lowering the framerate drastically. Where I get mostly 95% smooth framerate before, it drops the overall FPS to 20-30.

Edit: I tried putting it on a cron timer and it still still slowed it down. I really need to figure out what it's cleaning up and why it's constantly creating it. Something is dirtying up the global space. Probably my old crappy coding methods.

I may be 100% wrong here, but from my understanding the garbagecollector runs every now and then regardless of any dirty varaibles. the lag might not be from an unused reference/table, but instead simply because the garbagecollector is searching through the global space looking for unused stuff - whether or not there actually is any.

I don't know anything about this, but you could try pausing the garbage collector at startup and only do a step each frame, if you haven't already.

Let's keep the thread on topic, shall we? You can make a separate thread about that heartbeat thing.

Robin wrote:I don't know anything about this, but you could try pausing the garbage collector at startup and only do a step each frame, if you haven't already.

Alas I just tried this and it ends up crashing (Stopping abruptly) the game after a few seconds on large worlds if I don't step, and slowing it down immensely if I do step.

Oysi wrote:Let's keep the thread on topic, shall we? You can make a separate thread about that heartbeat thing.

Could a Mod split this then?

Been doing some more proper texture mapping, as well as making a skybox thingy. =)




EDIT: (I just had to...)



EDIT #2: (I just had to again...)



EDIT #3: (Stop me before I break it)



EDIT #4: (Haha, I actually broke it)

Oysi, this work is incredible! I love the screens you have been posting.

Are you planning to make a game at some point, or are you just focused on the rendering and physics code?

Dont you see its already a game!

CUBEPOCOLYPSE 4:CUBE OF MENACE, HARBRINGER OF CUBE:THE GAME

anyhow, im starting to develop a strong inferiority complex everytime i see oysi post new screenies ... is that normal?

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wow, looking closer... 300 bodies and a FPS good enough for console games...