andi_s Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Strange...I only get 90 to 100. What CPU are you running and which OS?
andi_s Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 Thanks Duion. I think it's mainly the cpu then. Granted, my pc is by far not the latest and greatest, but still it's disapointing how slow T3D is.
Duion Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 Slow compared to what? Did you make any comparisons with measurements?The big mainstream games are often heavily optimized and a lot of tricks are used to make it looks good and run fast, the engine is not the only factor.For example Torque uses realtime lights for everything by default, if you bake the lighting instead you can increase FPS by around three times, at least this is what I got when I tested it.
JeffR Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 Thanks Duion. I think it's mainly the cpu then. Granted, my pc is by far not the latest and greatest, but still it's disapointing how slow T3D is. To be sure, there are parts of the engine that are slow, but part of my intent with getting the T3D demos is to give us a very concrete baseline that everyone can use to test.So now that we have a baseline, we can start getting consistent performance figures like what you've been providing and it gives us a clearer picture of what can be optimized.One thing I'd like you to try, is to go into scripts/client/prefs.csAnd change $pref::TS::maxInstancingVerts = "200"; To...say, $pref::TS::maxInstancingVerts = 3000"; By default, T3D has a rather low vert count for instancing(it's largely meant for groundclutter with this setup). I've seen some improvement if you up the instancing amount so it kicks in for trees, so if you could test that and let me know how that impacts performance?
NekoDemon117 Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 I have some stutter problems, but I am getting around 145-170 FPS on the default Desert level. This is with a Galaxy GTX 660 GC and a FX 8350 at 1920x1080 on max settings. RAM is 8GB (2 x 4GB) @ 1333mhz. OS is Windows 7 Ultimate x64.I haven't finished downloading the Pacific Demo to be able to try it yet.
buckmaster Posted June 28, 2015 Author Posted June 28, 2015 Thanks JeffR. Is there a Project Manager that I should be using to make a scene in Linux? What's the process for starting a blank project?Sadly no Linux PM - here's an article describing setting a project up without it.
triggerfish Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 Thanks buckmaster, I was able to follow that tutorial earlier to get all the files in the same folder as my executable. Please see my post on page 3 about the error I'm getting when I try to start the project. Please forgive me if my terminology is completely wrong. I'm new at this stuff, but I like to learn.
NekoDemon117 Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 I'm only getting 20-30 FPS outside in the Pacific Demo, depending on the area. I get 20 FPS worst-case, but I'm only averaging 23-24. It won't let me enter the cave because something is wrong with the collision in that area.
buckmaster Posted June 28, 2015 Author Posted June 28, 2015 @NekoDemon117 would you mind doing some profiling and posting the results? It'd be very interesting to see what your CPU is being spent on.@triggerfish ah sorry I missed that. Might be good to post the console.log somewhere like pastebin for us to see the whole thing. Sounds like something serious!
NekoDemon117 Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 I couldn't find where to attach files on this forum, so here is a Mega link. My performance was even worse this time, so hopefully it will have the information you're looking for.https://mega.co.nz/#!k5VGGDZK!Y1JfzMDro-0unnX5VGuT0xPn5w-9T6wLg9QY6sd9y-0
buckmaster Posted June 28, 2015 Author Posted June 28, 2015 @NekoDemon117 thanks for that! I've started a new thread for performance and optimisation discussion.
andi_s Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 Thanks Duion. I think it's mainly the cpu then. Granted, my pc is by far not the latest and greatest, but still it's disapointing how slow T3D is. To be sure, there are parts of the engine that are slow, but part of my intent with getting the T3D demos is to give us a very concrete baseline that everyone can use to test.So now that we have a baseline, we can start getting consistent performance figures like what you've been providing and it gives us a clearer picture of what can be optimized.One thing I'd like you to try, is to go into scripts/client/prefs.csAnd change $pref::TS::maxInstancingVerts = "200"; To...say, $pref::TS::maxInstancingVerts = 3000"; By default, T3D has a rather low vert count for instancing(it's largely meant for groundclutter with this setup). I've seen some improvement if you up the instancing amount so it kicks in for trees, so if you could test that and let me know how that impacts performance? JeffR, this helps a bit. i get around 5 fps more this way. I know shipped games are heavily optimized, I was just thinking that compared to for example unity, it seems T3D performs worse on the same Hardware. Regarding baked lighting, how would I do this....do I Need to buy purelight from the GG Store?
andi_s Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 I just tried the old original T3D 1.1 Pacific demo...and guess what, it runs around 10 fps faster than using the latest T3D 3.7 MIT pacific demo....did you notice the same or might this be something related to my machine or Setup only?
triggerfish Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 Thanks buckmaster,Here's the link to my console.log on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/frTmXMBsI was not able to post the entire thing as pastsbin said it was too big. The last messages just repeat thousands of times.Do you need my system info? Here it is:http://pastebin.com/GYuLdZ9AThanks for all your hard work!
JeffR Posted June 29, 2015 Posted June 29, 2015 Also, in alignment with the OP's statement about us focusing on stability for 3.8, I've started drafting a "hard" list of things to test prefacing a release.It's intended as a checklist to make sure we hit as many parts of the engine to ensure it's functioning without surprise gotchas we didn't catch in general testing, which is how we've had the instability slowly creep up on us until now.As such, I've started a new wiki page that I'll be filling out with an as-exhaustive-list-as-possible listing that we can walk down and check off to make sure a release is as stable as we're going to be able to make it before getting it to the masses.That page is here.If there's anything you can think of that needs to be tested, feel free to modify that page or pass it along here or to me via PM. The entire problem we've been having is it's almost impossible for one person to think of EVERYTHING that needs testing, so even if I detail an exhaustive list, there's no doubt some things I'll not think of or forget that you people have noted or tested yourselves.
triggerfish Posted June 30, 2015 Posted June 30, 2015 Hi buckmaster. I wanted to check to see if you were able to open the pastebin links I sent in my last post. Please let me know if you need any more information from my system. Thank you!
buckmaster Posted July 1, 2015 Author Posted July 1, 2015 @triggerfish I have, thanks for that. Not a lot of time right now but I'll try to find a moment to have a look!
saindd Posted July 1, 2015 Posted July 1, 2015 I've just noticed that the Visual Studio 2012 project files does not contain x64 configuration. Where i can get it?
saindd Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 If there's no 64 build configuration in the trunk yet, how do you guys do it? Ming GW?
buckmaster Posted July 3, 2015 Author Posted July 3, 2015 Usually by using CMake to generate 64-bit VS solutions, not the project generator.
Recommended Posts