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Hello players,
this update contains a new graphics system. The old system of course is still available (the systems are programmed as modules and can be switched out at will). The approach is basically using bigger buffers on the graphics card to minimize switching pointers between them, which can be costly. The drawback of that system is overhead in video memory, but that doesn't scale fortunately.
The gains for my system are pretty good. Depending on the situation I get +10-100% more fps. But it very much depends on the graphics card, its drivers, and the settings selected.
Please note: There are two more options in the advanced settings on start-up. VBO-Bulk-Mode, and VBO-Bulk-mode-size. If you have trouble with running the game (but last version was fine) please turn that option off. Otherwise you can play around with the size option. With this option "the more the better" is not true, even for high end cards. What gives the best performance solely depends on the graphics driver implementation, so you might have to try a bit to find your optimal setting. In the future default setting of 4MB can be replaced with a default setting if the graphics card used is known by the game.
Please be especially careful with this pre-build if you plan to use it on a server, and even in single player please make sure you backup your database before you use this build. Also please don't use this build to work on big projects, as i can't guarantee the data generated by the pre-build to be 100% error free, because a database migration has to be done from the old version.
You can download the build here: http://files.star-made.org/build/pre/starmade-build_20140309_182550.zip
(to use that please extract that file into a folder named "StarMade" and put a launcher in the directory below: e.g. if you extract it to c:\users\schema\games\StarMade, the launcher has to be in c:\users\schema\games for it to see the installation)
(The username and password is "dev". The link will be working around 15 minutes after this news post)
This version will be installed on play.star-made.org:4242 to test.
Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema
this update contains a new graphics system. The old system of course is still available (the systems are programmed as modules and can be switched out at will). The approach is basically using bigger buffers on the graphics card to minimize switching pointers between them, which can be costly. The drawback of that system is overhead in video memory, but that doesn't scale fortunately.
The gains for my system are pretty good. Depending on the situation I get +10-100% more fps. But it very much depends on the graphics card, its drivers, and the settings selected.
Please note: There are two more options in the advanced settings on start-up. VBO-Bulk-Mode, and VBO-Bulk-mode-size. If you have trouble with running the game (but last version was fine) please turn that option off. Otherwise you can play around with the size option. With this option "the more the better" is not true, even for high end cards. What gives the best performance solely depends on the graphics driver implementation, so you might have to try a bit to find your optimal setting. In the future default setting of 4MB can be replaced with a default setting if the graphics card used is known by the game.
Please be especially careful with this pre-build if you plan to use it on a server, and even in single player please make sure you backup your database before you use this build. Also please don't use this build to work on big projects, as i can't guarantee the data generated by the pre-build to be 100% error free, because a database migration has to be done from the old version.
You can download the build here: http://files.star-made.org/build/pre/starmade-build_20140309_182550.zip
(to use that please extract that file into a folder named "StarMade" and put a launcher in the directory below: e.g. if you extract it to c:\users\schema\games\StarMade, the launcher has to be in c:\users\schema\games for it to see the installation)
(The username and password is "dev". The link will be working around 15 minutes after this news post)
This version will be installed on play.star-made.org:4242 to test.
Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema
