Hey, what's with all that loading?!

KA101 · 2014-02-05T04:19:44.000Z

Have you noticed your game loading and saving again when you load up your save in the latest experimental?

That’s thanks to Kevin’s map-handling upgrade, which just landed.

It takes those ginormous map files that eventually imploded your game (no matter what you did) and breaks them down into digestible chunks that are dynamically loaded as necessary. This isn’t any easier on your hard drive, but keeps RAM usage down.

Theoretically Cata-worlds can now be far more infinite than they used to be: the only limitation is your HD space.

I’d like to specially thank Erratum on the IRC, without whose Pine Grove world (.rar compressed) we’d have been unable to test it. Here’s a .zip fresh from right before the merge-build. Much appreciated, Erratum.

That said, I was only able to test it so much. If something goes wrong, here’s as good a place as any to let us know!

dwarfkoala · 2014-02-05T04:58:52.000Z

Looks like the delete and reset world code is not working correctly. It’s not actually deleting or resetting the submaps in folders, only acting upon the files in the root save folder.

github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Issue: Dynamic Submap Loading not taken into account when deleting or resetting worlds.

opened by dwarfkoala on 2014-02-05

closed by Rivet-the-Zombie on 2014-02-18

Looks like the delete and reset world code is not working correctly. It's not actually deleting or resetting the submaps in...

Bug

Zireael · 2014-02-05T08:55:54.000Z

Yup, very happy to see it in-game. Can’t download the experimental right now, but will do it ASAP.

Poetich77 · 2014-02-05T14:32:44.000Z

The game stops when appears pop up message "Please wait at the map saves"
Does it work with old saves?

Zireael · 2014-02-05T15:51:53.000Z

[quote=“Poetich77, post:4, topic:4973”]The game stops when appears pop up message "Please wait at the map saves"
Does it work with old saves?[/quote]

Yes, it does. How big is your world?

Poetich77 · 2014-02-05T16:04:36.000Z

A little less than Pine Grove world…

My saves

dwarfkoala · 2014-02-05T20:38:13.000Z

Poetich77:

The game stops when appears pop up message “Please wait at the map saves”

When, exactly, does the message appear? During autosave or immediately on loading a world?

Poetich77 · 2014-02-05T21:14:32.000Z

dwarfkoala:

[quote=“Poetich77, post:4, topic:4973”]The game stops when appears pop up message “Please wait at the map saves”

When, exactly, does the message appear? During autosave or immediately on loading a world?[/quote]

At the beginning, when I’m trying to load my world

dwarfkoala · 2014-02-06T01:56:23.000Z

BevapDin has found the bug and a PR is in the works to fix it.

github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

fix submap saving, erase memory leaks, ignore incomplete submaps

by BevapDin on 01:51AM - 06 Feb 14

2 commits changed 1 files with 19 additions and 3 deletions.

After that lands, test it and report back.

dwarfkoala · 2014-02-06T03:51:28.000Z

Merged!
It’s working fine on my end. If it doesn’t work fine on yours, please report back.

ChristopherWalken · 2014-02-06T07:44:16.000Z

Holy crap this is amazing.
My 50.000 save turned into ~400/800 quick saves!

Now the only limit is the horizon!

Poetich77 · 2014-02-06T09:31:22.000Z

It`s working in the latest build #802! Thanks for your help, guys!

system · 2014-02-06T12:30:04.000Z

[quote=“ChristopherWalken, post:11, topic:4973”]Holy crap this is amazing.
My 50.000 save turned into ~400/800 quick saves!

Now the only limit is the horizon![/quote]
Or your hard drive space.

ChristopherWalken · 2014-02-06T12:52:30.000Z

[quote=“gtaguy, post:13, topic:4973”][quote=“ChristopherWalken, post:11, topic:4973”]Holy crap this is amazing.
My 50.000 save turned into ~400/800 quick saves!

Now the only limit is the horizon![/quote]
Or your hard drive space.[/quote]

I’ve got about a full Terabyte free, I think I’m safe.

dwarfkoala · 2014-02-07T04:28:27.000Z

As of now, the only problem that still needs fixing is https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/5973, the delete and reset world code is not working correctly. If you have worlds full of interesting stuff, continue to playtest and find bugs. That’s how we get them fixed.