What happened with the latest update?

Zeldafanboy

I haven’t noticed any in game optimization problems (and ostensibly all the updates jip has made are to increase performance) but I have noticed more network instability and host timeouts, and the client is buggier when displaying games.

FemtoZetta

Do you have any replays where this happened or just anecdotes?

ZooDoo4U

@femtozetta Most every game i play now. And for the most part as vanillas as it can be, not mods.

QuietJoy

OP, with respect, vague anecdotes are not a starting point for troubleshooting. It's not that we doubt you believe what you are saying but help us help you... give some games numbers and timestamps y'know?

TheVVheelboy

Even if it's most of the games it would be great if you could provide replay ID's for games that in your opinion were running way to slow than they should. So that we can have a go at them ourselves.

ZooDoo4U

@e33144211332424 For a game replay..

https://replay.faforever.com/17034400

Jip

The issue is fixed on FAF Develop. We're releasing it in the next few days. I can only recommend you to play on FAF Develop for now.

Jip

@zoodoo4u said in What happened with the latest update?:

@e33144211332424 For a game replay..

https://replay.faforever.com/17034400

Checked your replay - the cause of the slow down is fixed on FAF Develop.

Jip

FAF Develop was pushed - everything should be good now.

ZooDoo4U

Thanks for the info @Jip

Actually, the game feels really sloooooooooooooooow these days. I've played supcom from the pre-released betas before being shipped. I have a copy on a much slower machine (intel 6700K) , with the original Supcom/FA and play skirmishes on it from time to time. That game plays way much faster then the heavily modded version from FAF on a 5950x w/128GB ram and a rtx 3080. Sorry just get use to the speed of units moving on that unmodified game. Well i guess a 10 year old 6700K CPU should be faster as it is a 6700 which is greater than 5950. Interesting when checking the game speed vai ren_shownetworkstatus something is wrong. Can easily see units on my 5950 moving so slow when comparing the two machines... Checking the game speed on my 5950x sure i see that game is at +10, but honestly the units are moving about 75% of the +10 on my 6700k. Sure feels like the old built in 500ms delay was increased to 750ms and causing the game to be much slower...

Jip

Make a video comparison. Besides running ren_ShowNetworkStats make sure to also run ShowStats and open up the entity count (that shows the number of units, projectiles and other entities) and the heap (shows memory allocations). Make sure to close the leaderboard, that makes it easier to read. As an example of the data we need:

I'd love to see the difference you describe. Because if that is the case, then we still have some places to go for FAF, and that is exciting news.

Sure feels like the old built in 500ms delay was increased to 750ms and causing the game to be much slower...

Type in net_Lag and note the value at the center / bottom of the screen. It is 500.000 when I type it, and that is 500ms .

edit: and make sure to show the hardware you're running the game with. It should be the same hardware for both runs.

thecore

@ZooDoo4U Make sure you are not using the old nvidia driver with the lag issue.
Also with 5950x make sure you have docp/xmp turned on and also precision boost overdrive.

veteranashe

If the sim is running +10/+10 it's not the game slowing down, it's your computer