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Are any errors being logged in the runtimedata folder when this is happening? |
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I don't know. What file(s) in the runtimedata folder should I be looking for? |
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C:\A Valley Without Wind\RuntimeData look for anything with "error" in the file name |
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Pyrrhic runtimedata post lavaslow.png (129,194 bytes) |
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I don't think so. I've uploaded a screenshot of my RuntimeData folder, in case I'm overlooking something. |
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ArcenDebugLog might have something in there, or might just be info-only stuff. Can you upload that? If you've been playing a lot since the issue occurred, can you do the following? 1. Delete the ArcenDebugLog. 2. Start the game and replicate the issue. 3. Upload the ArcenDebugLog. That might lead to nothing, but it's the only thing at the moment that has much chance from the look of things. And its quite possible that the slowdown is from log writes, so if it's not the last thing you've done prior to uploading the log file, then likely it wouldn't be in the log at all. Also, if you can zip and upload your world folder, then I can try looking at that to see if I can replicate it. |
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ArcenDebugLog.txt (794 bytes) |
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Ok, done. I should point out that I've experienced the slowdown in all of the worlds where I've tested it (aka in several worlds), not just this one. |
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Okay, thanks. There's nothing suspicious in the log file, but thanks for verifying that. I'll have to see if I can replicate it with this world, though I understand that's been universal for you. |
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Well, on windows I definitely cannot replicate the issue at all. Going to test on my 2010 Macbook Pro now. |
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Wow, okay -- I can totally duplicate this on OSX. However, it's worse even than you reported, for me. I dropped from 60fps to 1fps. Total slideshow. Will see what I can find... |
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Added details: 1. Pausing the game did not help this at all. So it's definitely not simulation-related, it's something in the graphics loop. 2. Painstakingly moving to the settings screen and then moving out of fullscreen into windowed mode fixes the issue without an application restart. Then moving back into fullscreen works just fine. Based on these two things, I'm thinking that this is something to do with some textures not invalidating properly in unity on OSX. This may not be a bug that I can fix, but I'll look and see if I can isolate it more at the very least. |
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Well... it's definitely not related to the unloading of assets, unlike what I thought. I disabled that outright, and it still had the problem. I also disabled the heat haze, which I thought for sure then must be the issue, but that wasn't it either. Given that the problem goes away when changing from fullscreen to windowed and back, this is some sort of in-engine bug (since none of our code gets reset by that operation). I'm going to experiment around with a few more things, but this isn't looking promising. |
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Sigh. Well, this hasn't been my day. I went and upgraded the game to unity 3.5 (normally we've been running on 3.3) to see if that would fix it. No dice. So I'm not really sure what to do about this. Everything that I can think of that is unique about the lava flats has been disabled, and it still does it. For now it looks like I'm going to have to set this one aside. :/ |
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For now, could you disable lava flats from showing up on the main menu? Edit: The main menu no longer shows chunks, so nevermind the above sentence. As for the bug itself - I guess there's reporting it on a/the Unity bug reporting forum, and/or painstakingly rebuilding lava flats, testing it periodically to see if the slowdown has started yet. |
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Yep, I figured that the main menu shifts would help with the issue in general. As for the bug, there's not really anything to report on the unity forums yet because there's not an isolated root cause yet. It definitely seems to be some sort of bug in unity in the sense of the memory handling, but it could be triggered by something wrong that we are doing. In terms of finding the root of the issue, indeed I would have to go through and just keep removing parts of the lava flats and then see when the problem gets isolated. |
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I have a somewhat similar problem - When I enter dungeon lvl 5+, with the red glow (similar to Lava Flats, still in continent 1), everything slows down to a crawl. From 60 frames it drops to 0000064:0000010 u.u |
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CloudsLava.png (2,823 bytes) |
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@yesdaniel: If you're having a lot of trouble while it is actively showing, it's most likely due to pixel fill rate. Fortunately, there is a simple way around that in this case. I've uploaded a file called CloudsLava.png to this issue. If you download that and put it in your AValleyWithoutWind/RuntimeData/Images/FloatingDecorations/Clouds folder, you should be all set. (This will replace the existing file and get rid of the glow). Thanks! |
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Awesome! Thank you ='D Going to play now ^^ |
- Anonymous
