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Blecki
Performance : Soak tests
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Freezing and stuttering: The game itself runs fine at first. But after a few hours the game starts freezing and stuttering so bad it becomes unplayable. I'm not sure what triggers it, tho I assume it's a memory leak on enteties.
Save game corruption: After 5 hours on my first map, my save-times suddenly skyrocketed from 5 seconds to 5 minutes. Loadtimes also rose exponentially up to the point where all versions of my saves where suddenly corrupt. (Game froze when it had to load entities).
Reported May 4th, so might be gone. Doubt it. One of us should run a soak test.
Would be interesting to get save files from this person. Seems you've encountered something similar in #651. I don't understand the save/load times increasing, as it's something I've never experienced before and I'm not even sure what would cause it other than something creating a huge number of entities that don't get cleaned up or something. Obviously it's a bit tedious to test the game for 5 hours at a time, so I'm wondering if there are ways we can reproduce these issues in an automated way.
I am experiencing this issue as well, I can upload my save if you like. It happens every time I play for many hours (not sure exactly when it starts happening) I will say there are a fair amount of orphaned objects in my world my dwarfs will not pick up which may be a contributing factor. Dwarfclaimed Hills_633_131724368089112869.zip
FYI, we just ran a few "soak tests" and have plugged a few memory leaks that might be contributing to this issue. Still investigating.
Would be interested to hear from more players after our last release. I'm hoping there should have been a significant improvement.
I haven't been able to log any serious hours in yet but so far everything seems much smoother better. The only complaint I have is that the task selection highlights (specifically mining designated blocks) do not render outside of their layer. This makes it hard to plan multiple layers out because you have not context for what is above/below you. This should probably be a new issue but it would be nice to be able to see selected blocks/items a layer above and below your current layer.
I also want to mention that the speed at which the issue would show up was directly proportional to the frequency of the autosaves. It got worse more often autosaves occurred, at least on my system. I slowed autosaves down to every 30 mins and got several days of 2-5 hour play sessions before I noticed an issue rather than one 2-5 hour play session at the default autosave interval.
I haven't been able to log any serious hours in yet but so far everything seems much smoother better. The only complaint I have is that the task selection highlights (specifically mining designated blocks) do not render outside of their layer. This makes it hard to plan multiple layers out because you have not context for what is above/below you. This should probably be a new issue but it would be nice to be able to see selected blocks/items a layer above and below your current layer.
Unfortunately we had to make this change for performance reasons, though I can see if there's a middle ground.
I also want to mention that the speed at which the issue would show up was directly proportional to the frequency of the autosaves. It got worse more often autosaves occurred, at least on my system. I slowed autosaves down to every 30 mins and got several days of 2-5 hour play sessions before I noticed an issue rather than one 2-5 hour play session at the default autosave interval.
That's an interesting point. I think our next soak tests should focus on autosave.
I've made a request for soak saves from the players on Discord. We'll see what we get.