Thursday, April 12, 2012

Has there been any progress in fixing the AI slowdown bug?

[:1]It's been a while (read:more than a year) since I've played Supreme Commander, or browsed these forums, so I was wondering if there had been any progress on that front.
Part of the reason I haven't played it in so long, is frustration over the fact that my usual mode of play (coop against AI) was practically unplayable. A 40 minute game would get stretched across hours due to the game slowing down.
Various AI patches, and optimization helped the problem, but did not fix it.
I couldn't find anything from searching around for a bit, but I'm really hoping the community has managed to magically fix this.|||No, and probably there never will be. You could try using the 3603 beta patch with the Sorian AI and Duncane's AI Fixes, but that's the best you can do.|||I think patch 3603 fix the fact that AI try to give orders to dead units, enhancing the performance greatly.|||3603 fixed some memory problems and prevented some crashes, as reported by some users. AI optimizations are there, but I don't know exactly what they are.
To completely remove AI slowdown is nearly impossible without serious engine rewriting, so don't count on it being "fixed" anytime in the current decade.|||Details!
How many AIs you normally play with, what kind of maps, your computer specs.
I now have a decent rig, having just played with 3 AIs on a 20k map for an hour and a half and still be positive simspeed. All sorts of things factor into "AI slowdown".
Mike|||Quote:|||What AIs do you use? Stock or Modded?
Mike|||We had been using modded AIs. I don't remember which exactly, but we were at least using Duncan's AI mod.
We were also using the multi-core optimizer program.|||Hmm, have you ever tried Sorian's AIs?
Between his AIs, LEM and the Cheating Options add-on you might be able to get away with using less AIs which should result in less slow down.
Sorian AI(LEM included)
Cheat Options
Mike|||We had been using Sorian's AIs as well, but for some reason it never occurred to me to use less, but more difficult, AIs.
I'll definitely give that a try, thanks very much.|||In the next time you have to post it in the mod developement and discussion to the AI mods
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Prince|||No? Thats for modding AIs, this has to do with the Stock AIs that come with the game, this is placed correctly.
Mike|||Prince|||Legion Darrath|||AwkwardTurtle

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