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Client startup issue - timing out while loading objects

by Igor G · in Torque Game Engine · 06/11/2007 (9:28 am) · 5 replies

I have a very dense world with many TSStatic objects, so when my client connects to my server, it has to load each one into memory.

My test client only has 512 MB of RAM, so when it's loading objects, it's constantly paging memory out to the hard drive and then it times out on the server.

Is there some way to increase the timeout only when a client is in this loading object phase? Or would it be possible to limit the number of ghosts sent per second to help fix this problem?

Thanks.
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Torque Owner Ed Zavada
#1
06/12/2007 (3:51 pm)
You might try using fxShapeReplicator to place statics that are on the client only if possible. Then they wouldn't have to be ghosted at all. It doesn't seem like a good user experience to increase the load times by adding artificial delays.

Igor G
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#2
06/13/2007 (5:02 am)
That would be a good idea..except all my TSStatic objects are all different and a fxShapeReplicator wouldn't work.

Torque 3D Owner Marc Dreamora Schaerer
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#3
06/13/2007 (5:11 am)
Caching and loading them straight from system instead of going via ghosting at all tested yet? should reduce the loading time drastically.

Igor G
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#4
06/13/2007 (6:07 am)
Marc - that seems like a good idea that we haven't tried yet. I haven't found anything related to caching and loading in the forums. Could someone give me a general idea of how this would be implemented in Torque?

Thanks.

Torque 3D Owner Justin Campbell
#5
08/09/2009 (1:06 am)
bump... I have also not seen a resource on this. Is there any functional example of loading an object from the client as opposed to ghosting?