The Performance Update: Titans Build 99377

I haven't got an eight or sixteen core xeon though like Amazon has...

Doesn't uber host their servers on 'PlayFab' now? As in a propitiatory service? I thought they only dedicated 1 or 2 cores per game on their servers (so there'd be no benefit)...

static const float RECONNECT_DELAY = 0.5; // seconds

I was under the impression that playfab was hosted on Amazon, my bad. The bolded is probably the case because until now, there was no reason to dedicate more than 2 cores per game.

So glad to see development is still ongoing. Haven't played for a few months but this game is still special to me.

<3 you all.

so how is it with artilleryunits such as grenadiers running into their death instead of stopping at max range? do you guys still have problems with that?

Thanks for posting this.
I fired up PA after a very long time again to test this patch, only to find that this bug still exists.
This is still the most annyoing thing in the entire game.

Awesome! Massive update, still reading through the changes. You fixed the disappearing CSGs!!! I can build planets again!!! Great update overall. Thanks a lot and very happy to see continued updates.

I was being serious. This makes the game unplayable for me as all the units keep suiciding.

So the game is definitely faster. I haven't seen simulation slowdown yet and I used to see it a lot, down to 30% or worse at times.

The editor is fixed indeed. I was able to finish my maps without the frustration of disappearing CSGs.

Thanks again for the update.

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Tonight I joined a game in progress as a spectator. Chat was closed.I clicked/opened the 'Friends' popup. I then closed the friends popup and I was no longer able to rotate or zoom in on the planet. I could still switch planets but had to resort to F5 to restore navigation

Fixed... you must have minimised via the tiny minimise icon on top right (vs icon toggle) so the capture was still active to prevent zooming of holodeck while scrolling contacts list.

Thanks!

me & my friends had a LAN this weekend! we were expecting a nice performance improve for PA:T, because the dropping SIMSPEED was the reason we stopped playing PA:T & PA & SC & ...
we had 1 match: we 3 against 3 AI [difficulty: 1/4, 2/4 & 3/4] on 1 big custom planet (radius was 1300) without any mods. the first 20-30 minutes, SIMSPEED indicator at bottom right showed 100%, but after that it dropped until 30-40%. we could still play compared to old versions where you almost got no movement at all, possibly at a SIMSPEED at 1-10%? but still, every second took 2-3 seconds & my friends got bored!
now my big question i have:
how do i know for sure whether i have multicore feature active or not???
i just created a game by adding a tick to "Spiel lokal ausrichten" (have a german version, but it could be translated to something like: "set local match"). now did this enable multicore or did we still run on single core? because as i said, we still weren't convinced from these new performance improvements. one friend uninstalled the game right after this one match...
is there a guide for enabling multicore mode?

When you enter your server settings, make sure you have "local server multi-threading " switched on.

As I said, multi threading is done on a per planet basis (1 core per planet) for the simulation.

A single r1300 planet won't benefit from the multi thread sim as it's one planet. you would be much better playing that match on 4 r500 / r600 planets than one much bigger one imo.

You should still have got some improvement as the AI is now multi thread as well, and things like area patrol use much less, however the system you picked is going to benefit much less than a multi planet system due to how the multi threading works.

As @Heizmeister says you need to go into settings, local server and tick the multi thread enable box to turn it on, but you also need a multi planet map to get most out of it (and keep the planet sizes down! r1300 can kill fps on any rig- I'd keep your planet sizes to r800 or less for all except gas giants).

Ah! You mean:
SETTINGS / SERVER / LOCAL SERVER MULTI-THREADING --> ON
Okay, already had this enabled for the mentioned match. so the match should have been already on multi threaded?!
Whats about:
SETTINGS / SERVER / LOCAL SERVER --> AUTO / ON / OFF ?
I have it on AUTO.
And the mentioned "Spiel lokal ausrichten" is found under:
MULTIPLAYER / CUSTOM GAME below the button CREATE GAME
I had this ticked for the mentioned match.

Yeah, the decision for 1 big planet VS more small planets was made by my friends, already told them that performance would be better for latter one.

Thanks for the quick reply!

I still hope they'll tweak aibehavior with weaponranges :/


orbital also still needs work ... like seriously its visibility needs rework imho

Never in the history of the Internet has 'I think you should do X' followed by zero justification, been a compelling argument.

simple ... it´s TOO visible ..
something i wrote on a steamthread about orbital scouting
http://steamcommunity.com/app/386070/discussions/0/1842367319516184832/#c152391920351159493

as for ai weaponrange behavior .. for how long do grenadiers and hornets run into their deaths not being realy used now? over 3 years?