Will This Lag?

[Vinz]

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• Fog
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.10 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • Fog_State Less than 1.00
      • Then - Actions
        • -------- Decrease fog --------
        • Set Fog_State = (Fog_State + 0.05)
        • Set Fog_Min = (Fog_Min + 15.00)
        • Set Fog_Max = (Fog_Max + 15.00)
      • Else - Actions
        • -------- Increase fog --------
        • Set Fog_State = (Fog_State - 0.05)
        • Set Fog_Min = (Fog_Min - 15.00)
        • Set Fog_Max = (Fog_Max - 15.00)
    • Environment - Set fog to style Linear, z-start Fog_Min, z-end Fog_Max, density 0.01 and color (80.00%, 90.00%, 100.00%)

 

[LordDz]

Try it then ask?

 

[Tickles]

Nope. I've tried it every 0.01 seconds, and it still doesn't cause any noticeable lag on an average laptop a couple years old.

 

[Vinz]

Thank you.

 

[Wietlol]

I use a test run to find out if it would lagg. "Stress Test" in common language.

Make a trigger that runs every ... seconds of game time. (easy)
Make another trigger that adds the action to the first trigger every second. (The first second it will be called once, the second second it will be called twice, etc, etc, etc.)
Also increase an integer variable by 1 every second so you know how much actions it has and let the game display the integer.

Then just wait and see...

(you can ofcourse add more per second.)
I have added 250 per second and they will be called 10 times per second. Increasing the action by 2500 per second.

I've made an example (attached file) and you can see that after 100 seconds, the game will look a bit weird and after 350 seconds the lagg appears.
100 seconds = calling that trigger 250.000 times a second!
350 seconds = calling that trigger 875.000 times a second!

With your 0.1 seconds of game time, you will call it 10 times. so you need 874.990 more to get your so much desired lagg

have fun with the next one \o/

(It has to be in JASS though, but you wouldn't care about it.)

 

[Maker]

There is an in-game fps command, /fps. Type it in the chat box.

Lag is the delay between something happening on a server and the information reaching your computer.

Are you talking about frame rate drop?

 

[Wietlol]

Lagg is delay. Both delay in fps (computer) and in ping (internet)

Latency is internet lagg in specifics though.
We were talking about fps lagg (frame rate drop as you call it) the whole time because this trigger runs on every pc and not on one and then transferring to the others.

The /fps is new for me though. Seems usefull.

 

[Vinz]

Are you talking about frame rate drop?

Nope, just asking if the action is performance heavy.

 

[edo494]

if action is performance heavy, it will drop your frame rate too, because you have less time to render stuff to screen, hence you can render it fewer times per second.

As Maker said, /fps ingame will show you, if you see the number decrease below 60, it is heavier than usually. If it however doesnt go below like 50-55, I wouldnt be conserned

 

[Wietlol]

if action is performance heavy, it will drop your frame rate too

That is not necessarily true.
When you have an action that is performance heavy but just not heavy enough to drop the frame rate.
All other actions together will drop it anyway.

Lets say, you have a massive map and you have millions of actions running all the time. You have to recognize performance heavy actions. Even though they dont drop the frame rate themself.

Like in my example. The action on the first second is not very performance heavy. The one on the 350th second is actually dropping frame rate.
But the one on 200 is not.
Then you have another one that is equal as heavy as the first, your frame rate will drop massively, but according to you, there are no performance heavy actions so I don't know what I should do in that case.

I hope this clarified it and I think that this difference is what Mythic meant.

 

[edo494]

well obviously LoadInteger... is heavier than array access, but wont cause any lag. Im talking about really heavy operations.

Also frame rates are not all that great, because if you place 400 units into your screen(within camera bounds), you will have lag with no triggers involved.