world editor

[BloodDrunk]

why world editor frezzes and unfreezes after 4-5 seconds when copy-pasteing units or abilities? can that be fixed?

 

[ap0calypse]

In the world editor, you can go to "Window" and deselect "Brush List", this should decrease the wait time when handling object data.

 

[BloodDrunk]

ty, and is there anything else tht could decrease waiting time?

 

[edo494]

The Blood after the brush list is not displaying it should be almost instant

This is not my topic, but Im curious, I have the brush list unitcked but if I try to open object editor it freezes the whole WE for 4 seconds or so and every tab does that as well(only first time I open them)

 

[BloodDrunk]

maybe u have a lot of units like I do? when I click unit tab, It takes more than 10 seconds to load all units

 

[ap0calypse]

Even some maps with a lot of custom units (at least 100) only take about 3 seconds to load for me.
I don't know of anything that could reduce the loading time even further.

Still, that is for loading the units. Copy/pasting should be almost instantly now. The brush list really makes a huge difference in that.

 

[edo494]

nah, even newly made map laggs when i open object editor for several seconds

 

[BloodDrunk]

That must be the computer then. It's not powerfull enough to load them all instantly.

 

[edo494]

well, i dont think so
Im not going to write what I he inside but lets say, its very powerful
I would rather say its something with the editor but as I said Im used to it

 

[BloodDrunk]

well, I thought it was my laptop cuz it's a bit weak....

 

[ap0calypse]

It might be that your laptop does increase the wait time a little bit (especially for loading the units then).

I have a feeling that if you store warcraft on a SSD (Solid State Drive, a very fast hard drive, also expensive) that the object editor will load almost instantly, but on a regular hard drive edo494 might be correct.
This is just an assumption though

 

[Zunariel]

When I started using the editor 8 years ago I had the same loading time like now
past: 1 Ghz proc
Now: 8,8 Ghz proc

I think its a problem with the editor itself that its so outdated generally

 

[ap0calypse]

Application load time mainly depends on your hard drive, not your processor. That's why I said an SSD would probably make a huge difference in loading those objects (as it is way faster than a regular hard drive).
Besides, 8,8 Ghz? The world record is currently 8,3 Ghz and they had to use buckets of liquid nitrogen to make it sure it didn't instantly melt down.

I'm going to assume you have a 2,2 Ghz Quad core proc (which some macbooks use), but multiple cores cannot run the same program (when talking about the WE at least) to make it faster.
Only 1 core can, so that is a processing power of 2,2 Ghz.

 

[BloodDrunk]

I succesfully managed to make people talk from WE freezing to world's record in computer power

 

[SA Dashie]

For a solution, before you close WE next make sure that you don't close the window object editor. Next time you open WE the lag that would be put into loading the object editor would be transferred to when load up WE and loading your map.
The lag when you open object editor means that you are opening a whole lot of data at once and it needs to process it(or transfer according to Ap0calipse) that wasn't loaded previously.

 

[edo494]

it still lags the other tabs tho
Also I have to point out fact that it occured from nowhere, it didnt do it nefore but as I said Im used to it so no need to worry

 

[SA Dashie]

Forgot about that. .. xD

 

[Dr Super Good]

It is all based on file I/O times. Once the files are loaded from backing storage they cached in memory but by the OS and probably by the game.

Try using my experimental JAVA booster program. If you have enough free memory it will force all WC3 data into memory resulting in much faster innitial load times. It also loads the data much faster as it does everything sequentially in bulk as opposed to in a random access fassion.