[Suggestion] Take the load off of client CPU as much as possible

[atomMan]

Place more burden on server + client GPU

For most of population GPUs are ATM underused and CPUs are getting hammered.

With current state of RO2, we need i7 and GTX260 to run it properly.

This is a huge hardware discrepancy, requiring newest CPU and several generation old mid range GPU.

Give better multithreading to multi core ppl,
but don't forget dual core folks either.

Precache more, 90%+ people have 4GB+ of RAM.

Give Nvidia people hardware accelerated Physx, OpenCL for AMD.
This alone should take some of the load of the CPU.

 

[MrHello]

Writing for OpenCL and other things takes a lot more work than just "using it".

 

[atomMan]

Thanks...


For letting us know there is no _Gif_OpenCL() free performance for everyone c++ function, and that it actually requires work.

 

[MrHello]

They don't have access to the source, do they? Afaik, they only use the UDK with unreal script.

 

[Xendance]

They don't have access to the source, do they? Afaik, they only use the UDK with unreal script.

-_-



They have full Unreal Engine 3 license. They won it from the same MSU contest where they got Unreal Engine 2.5 license.

 

[MrHello]

Ah, well that's great. I didn't think they had access to change the way resources were loaded and memory was managed, this is great news!

So there is actually hope that the performance could be fixed ^_^.

Are both of you programmers then? What's your favourite IDE for C++?

 

[atomMan]

vi of course

 

[aop]

Place more burden on server + client GPU

Check the dedicated server support forum. Servers are already hammered to hell and back, 64 player server requires ****load of CPU power.

UE3 engine is pretty CPU bound and most games using it are corridor shooters, I think the CPU bottleneck is made worse by enormous maps in RO2.

 

[Actin]

Check the dedicated server support forum. Servers are already hammered to hell and back, 64 player server requires ****load of CPU power.

UE3 engine is pretty CPU bound and most games using it are corridor shooters, I think the CPU bottleneck is made worse by enormous maps in RO2.

He meant for both client and server side to use more GPU than CPU; not transfer loads from clients CPU to servers CPU

I am no expert at programming, but I don't think it's easy to transfer parts of the game from the CPU to GPU. Also the GPU of my card (5850) has a larger strain than my CPU (Core i5), so maybe it's only at some pc's that this is true.

 

[Josef Nader]

Precache more, 90%+ people have 4GB+ of RAM.

Please don't do this to me.

I'm running a 6 year old rig that can get RO2 running smoothly at 40fps.

If you build the game like I have 4 gigs, I'm done.

 

[Frostedflames]

Agreed I was running this on everything on ultra but the new maps just lag me I put it on high and now it is rediculously smooth

 

[FBX]

The game engine already uses dynamic loading like what is used on the consoles, which themselves have very limited resources compared to what a modern gamer PC has.