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Offline SoftwareSimian

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2013, 06:55:31 pm »
Presumably those for whom the load time are working fine are all self-compiled, and those of us who are simply play-testing with the precompiled binaries have the slow load times?

If that's the case, can one of those who have no problem loading try installing a copy of the latest installer and see if slow load times are reproducible that way?

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2013, 09:49:27 pm »
Is the nightly compiled in release mode? I so this might be a release-only bug, like the the slow air combat one

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #17 on: March 19, 2013, 06:35:06 pm »
Is the nightly compiled in release mode? I so this might be a release-only bug, like the the slow air combat one
Not sure if that question was directed at me. The version I'm using shows:
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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2013, 04:29:50 am »
I've entered this into the tracker as issue #4936.

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2013, 07:25:38 am »
I checked this. As DarkRain said, it seems to be a problem of the installer.

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2013, 08:24:49 am »
i will try to update the buildchain on the buildbot server.

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2013, 09:30:19 pm »
Let us know when it's done and I'll try to install the new build & see if it fixes the problem.

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2013, 09:41:45 pm »
The fix is in place. You can check it out with the next nightly build.

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2013, 04:30:07 pm »
I just tried
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UFO: Alien Invasion 2.5-dev IA-32 Mar 22 2013 Win32 DEBUG
from both the EXE-only and full installer nightly builds, and load times are unchanged. Loading a relatively young game (08-May-2084) takes 9.5 seconds; loading a late game (20-May-2085) takes 31.5 seconds.

slot4.savx = May-2084
slot7.savx = May-2085

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2013, 05:32:00 pm »
Please report any updates for this also in the tracker item.

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2013, 02:37:18 am »
Any progress at squishing this? (Checking while looking to see if anybody else has had issues with the bug I reported last night.)

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2013, 06:54:37 am »
Can be this memory allocation issue? On save loading it happens a lot. And a later save - more to parse (and make small memory allocations).

How many RAM have affected users?

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #27 on: March 27, 2013, 12:33:12 pm »
Can be this memory allocation issue?

I don't think so.

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #28 on: March 27, 2013, 01:41:41 pm »
How many RAM have affected users?
I have 64GB in my machine, so that's extremely unlikely.

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Re: Load saved game very slow
« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2013, 04:15:42 pm »
My laptop (which machine is the one that runs UFO: AI) is a 2.00 Gb RAM machine. That certainly might explain why my load times are longer than SS's.