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Hi there,
I've took some time to go back to the basics for a new special feature, that will soo come.
In the process of reiterating all the basic functions, I made some changes that have a huge impact on the performance of the game.
It's actually pretty rare, that people other than the one implementing it can see an actual increase in performance. But you will not only see it right away, it will make playing a lot more fun!
The game is now able to load a whole sector in seconds. Also a whole sector can now be displayed at once without any problems. Loading new segments (chunks) is now at least 10 times as fast, as it was before. The memory used is reduced to 20% from what it was before (which means, more stuff can be loaded). Also the memory, a sector needs on the graphics card has been halved, resulting in higher loading speed, as well as more segments, that can be displayed at once.
I hope to be able to release an update tomorrow. The next update will require a database and catalog migration (since stuff now only takes half the size), so I still need to setup that before releasing. Make sure you save your catalog, so no data is going to be lost.
Thanks for playing StarMade,
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I've took some time to go back to the basics for a new special feature, that will soo come.
In the process of reiterating all the basic functions, I made some changes that have a huge impact on the performance of the game.
It's actually pretty rare, that people other than the one implementing it can see an actual increase in performance. But you will not only see it right away, it will make playing a lot more fun!
The game is now able to load a whole sector in seconds. Also a whole sector can now be displayed at once without any problems. Loading new segments (chunks) is now at least 10 times as fast, as it was before. The memory used is reduced to 20% from what it was before (which means, more stuff can be loaded). Also the memory, a sector needs on the graphics card has been halved, resulting in higher loading speed, as well as more segments, that can be displayed at once.
I hope to be able to release an update tomorrow. The next update will require a database and catalog migration (since stuff now only takes half the size), so I still need to setup that before releasing. Make sure you save your catalog, so no data is going to be lost.
Thanks for playing StarMade,
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