[CF-Devel] GTK Client performance

[Michael Toennies]

I had spend the dx client a threaded and queued socket and command buffer.
When i should guess, that can be the reason because the server will drop
alot
commands for many monsters. every tick a map cmd, alot of text, etc.

You can test it by comment out the fighting messages function and removing
the map update.
It will be black map screen, but you can do normal actions. When it speed
up,you got it.
You can go be for sure, when you include every frame in the client a fake
map draw.


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      GTK Client 1.3.1
     
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      Ok, well, I know that my system is memory challenged, but this seems
     
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      ridiculous...
     
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      A room full of creatures like in the mushroom quest absolutely kills my
     
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      character... not because I can't fight, but because the client slows to
     
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      a crawl...   Keypresses seem to be processed at a rate of less than one
     
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      per second.  Before you know it, apparent lags of several minutes can
     
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      occur because of buffered keypresses...  Then you lose track, and cannot
     
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      recover because it is very hard to get to the point where you know it is
     
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      processing current requests.
     
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      This occurs even with a Ring of War, and a Ring of Thieves, so my "speed"
     
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      is in the 2.5 range - keypresses are processed at a rate less that one per
     
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      second.  It is as though it is spending huge amounts of time trying to
     
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      process all the characters on the level or something...
     
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      It is directly related to the number of monsters on the level I am
     
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      working.
     
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      The system is a P120, 80MB.  With X running, I  am  running on the
     
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      edge where swap has to be used, but, even swapping is done, it is the
     
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      number of monsters that kills the client, not the fact that swapping
     
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      is being done because in town or other maps where there are few creatures,
     
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      the client performs ok.
     
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      It does not seem to be a server issue, because when the server is on this
     
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      same machine, other clients like the Windows DX client do not slow down
     
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      when the GTK client is slow.  The slowness also occurs (in GTK only)
     
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      when I'm using other servers on the net.  Other players on the same
     
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      server, on the same map, do not see the slowness with the DX client.
     
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      Any idea what I might set to make this less likely to happen?  Or if this
     
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      is abnormal?
     
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      I know that graphic caching might help for an off-system game server,
     
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      but with the server local, it seems this isn't really necessary...
     
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      Behavior is the same anyway... whether the server is local or not.
     
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      Lighting seems to be set to fastest.  SDL?  I don't know how that affects
     
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      speed or png graphics handling.
     
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      Could this be a graphic scaling issue?
     
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      Shrug, any ideas?
     
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      # This file is generated automatically by gcfclient.
     
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      # Manually editing is allowed, however gcfclient may be a bit
     
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      finicky about
     
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      # some of the matching it does.  all comparisons are case sensitive.
     
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      # 'True' and 'False' are the proper cases for those two values
     
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      # 'True' and 'False' have been replaced with 1 and 0 respectively
     
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      server: localhost
     
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      faceset: standard
     
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      colorinv: 1
     
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      colortext: 1
     
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      download_all_images: 0
     
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      echo_bindings: 0
     
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      fasttcpsend: 1
     
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      command_window: 10
     
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      cacheimages: 0
     
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      fog_of_war: 1
     
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      iconscale: 100
     
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      mapscale: 125
     
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      popups: 1
     
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      sdl: 1
     
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      showicon: 0
     
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      tooltips: 1
     
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      sound: 1
     
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      splitinfo: 1
     
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      split: 0
     
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      show_grid: 0
     
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      lighting: 1
     
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      trim_info_window: 0
     
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      map_width: 12
     
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      map_height: 12
     
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      foodbeep: 1
     
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      darkness: 1
     
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      port: 13327
     
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      grad_color_bars: 1
     
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