How hard is this going to crash?

[IronForge]

Hi, for my ORPG, I used JGNP to blow up the map to the maximum (4x original max amirite?), shrunk all units to 1/3 so more can be fit in (equavalent to 12x playable area now) and shrunk all doodads where necessary. I'm already at 20,000 doodads even though I've not even terrained half the map yet. Looking at a 50k or 60k when its done.

My question before going further is: How hard is this going to crash? Or will it just be crippling lag for like 10 minutes then everything fine again? Also, is it going to fry all PCs made before 2010?

While I'm realistic and expect this to crash any junk made in web1.0, will this be so gamebreakingly laggy that I should just enlarge everything again and be happy with a less realistic environment?

 

[Pharaoh_]

Your doodads will be still present in the map, why should it stop lagging after those ten minutes of playing? So, you can't actually discuss about crash with that speculation, because crash will be caused due to overload of memory taken space.

 

[IronForge]

Allright, so if you were me, what would you do?

Is this doomed to fail?

 

[Pharaoh_]

No, I would just balance my imagination. I know it might be exciting to add many doodads for realism (if you're going for this), but you have to respect every crappy computer with which your map is going to be played
Remove some parts, it won't make that a difference. You can also use units with locust as doodads.

 

[PurgeandFire]

It depends. I suggest terraining the entire map, and then adding only the necessary doodads. Then you can add more in later versions. This could cause jumbo frame lag on older computers since the whole shrinking method is kind of like setting FarZ higher. More objects will be in view since the FarZ is going to stay at 5k, so it might cause a bit of lag. (Mostly if it is a 3rd/1st person camera, if it is standard game view it should be fine)

It will mostly just take a long time to load, I don't think it will really lag much during the gameplay unless you have doodads spammed or alter them constantly in some way.

EDIT: Oh, you did the whole minimizing thing. Interesting. =)

 

[IronForge]

Oh its standard game view.