tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483706697866702497.post7553798934577070582..comments2023-10-31T09:25:45.318-07:00Comments on Plague: Plague 3.39Benedict Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340433201995399425noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483706697866702497.post-80766389944429329652010-03-14T20:34:18.115-07:002010-03-14T20:34:18.115-07:00Still extracted into one single folder with many f...Still extracted into one single folder with many files named res\****<br /><br />seems like archive under Linux do not read these...archlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210589419394436232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483706697866702497.post-90181195086550551252009-08-26T12:26:01.862-07:002009-08-26T12:26:01.862-07:00The Peiha,
Yeah, I also want a loading screen, ha...The Peiha,<br /><br />Yeah, I also want a loading screen, havent built one yet (I would have to control the loading process differently).<br /><br />There are three reasons why Plague is using loads of ram and CPU<br /><br />1: Its written in Python (which is not as generally zippy as C++)<br /><br />2: Because of loads of calculations behind the scenes - essentially the game is very heavy on the AI front (all characters see, remember, think). Pathfinding is especially expensive.<br /><br />Its also really physics heavy and that costs loads of CPU.<br /><br />3: this is my first time programming - I probably should've aimed for something simpler.<br /><br />The reason its using loads of ram is because it uses so much CPU, I cache results wherever possible to speed up future calculations - this costs ram.<br /><br />No doubt it can be improved to reduce the CPU and memory foot rint, but as this is my first time programming, so I dont know all the tricks yet (and I'm not really willing to sacrifice features).Benedict Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340433201995399425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483706697866702497.post-14673031918306325032009-08-26T02:49:05.377-07:002009-08-26T02:49:05.377-07:00Hey, I tried Plague and really enjoyed playing it,...Hey, I tried Plague and really enjoyed playing it, nice work!<br /><br />I'd like to give some feedback tho..<br /><br />First of all. I'd prefer some kind of loading screen with progress bar instead of just displaying messages.. While loading i saw fps and all those information which is not relevant to me when the game is actually loading something new.. It also made the impression of laggy game.<br /><br />Second thing i'd like to address is the CPU and RAM usage of the game.. I played the game for 15 minutes. During that time the game was burning 100% of my second cpu ( which is 2.4ghz intel ) also the game was consuming 1.1GB of ram..<br /><br />I think the game needs a bit tweaking there.. I can't imagine the images and sounds taking so much Ram; there has to be a memory leak somewhere <br /><br />Also since the game FPS was limited to 30 I am wondering what the game was actually doing since it took all of cpu power..<br /><br />Besides these problems, the game itself was impressive and well-thoughtpeihahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02779188302897973935noreply@blogger.com