found a pretty big bug here I think, During the mapchange it resetted the player count, also in the server browser and allowed new incoming connections, making reserved slots useless, and I don't know what happens with ppl who are already connected to the server during mapchange....
Feels slightly smoother, though i can still sense the weird sluggishness on the mouse later on in the game. Also, Combat mod is non operational. Loads everything and then it's just a black screen and orange mouse cursor. And then i have to Alt+F4 to exit the game. Ugh...
I guess i can't complain over the slight improvement. It's better than nothing for sure.
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Minor request, disable the player limit in the server.exe, every time there is update I have to modify the server.exe
I couldn't find it when I scanned the changelog, but are there any server side performance improvements made?
Not much. The problem is really that in order to scale the Spark1.0 engine properly (to much more complex environments and higher playercounts), you would need to multithread the server - and doing that is ... well, technically possible in that I have an idea how to do it, but it would be arseloads of work and involve rewriting much of the lua code.
268 will contain new ways to monitor server load though.
Should we be using the new multi-threaded physics option if we have PhysX GPU acceleration already turned on? Does this allow physics to be calculated by multiple CPU cores and GPU at the same time?
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Do you have any crash dumps?
This one's really going to turn into a praise fest more than anything.
Error: lua/menu/GUIMainMenu_PlayNow.lua:95: attempt to perform arithmetic on upvalue 'closerTo' (a function value)
If you want more details I can reproduce it at any time.
I guess i can't complain over the slight improvement. It's better than nothing for sure.
Not much. The problem is really that in order to scale the Spark1.0 engine properly (to much more complex environments and higher playercounts), you would need to multithread the server - and doing that is ... well, technically possible in that I have an idea how to do it, but it would be arseloads of work and involve rewriting much of the lua code.
268 will contain new ways to monitor server load though.
Thanks for the reply, system_options.xml is as below:
<options> <system> <runs>3</runs> <build>267</build> </system> <graphics> <display> <x-resolution>1280</x-resolution> <shadows>true</shadows> <bloom>true</bloom> <y-resolution>800</y-resolution> <display-buffering>0</display-buffering> <anisotropic-filtering>true</anisotropic-filtering> <anti-aliasing>true</anti-aliasing> <quality>1</quality> <window-mode>fullscreen-windowed</window-mode> <atmospherics>true</atmospherics> </display> <texture-streaming>true</texture-streaming> <device>OpenGL</device> </graphics> </options>[Does this mean there is a Spark 2.0 being worked on?
The actual game also seemed to have gotten better, I think. Luckily though it doesn't turn every marine into a pro shooter after all
Edit: appears to get stuck during loading though, somewhere after "Loading config://ConsoleBindings.json"
Nope. Not happening.
It looks like the issues come from outdated mods, so no hotfix in order
Some changes to fonts and characters were made, we have already asked our programmer that worked on that to help with your issue for the next patch.
Cool female idle animations! She does some strange thing with her left hand when throwing the axe though.
Obviously... girls can't throw an axe