Is there anyway to somehow reduce or totally remove the lag of the game?
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Oct 10 2012, 1:44 am
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NNAAAAHH
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Good programming?
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Totally remove? Not really, no. The latency between you requesting an action by clicking a key, and the server doing it) is an inevitable part of networked game, it's just ... inherent really, data's gotta travel some distance on a wire, this takes time. Really small amounts of time when you consider you get data from the US to UK and back in about 100 milli-seconds!
But yes, you can certainly reduce latency you introduce as part of your game's code. There are a lot of different possible causes of it, and so, a lot of different possible solutions for it. While a more current general article on reducing latency in games would be nice (including network profiling etc); and I may do one at some point, for now, it's best to ask the most important question: What is lagging in your game? When is it lagging? | |
Okay, so I decided to test a map with hundreds of monsters roaming around and it caused this lag like every step takes about 1.5 to 2 sec.I guess the problem is in my PC.
Well, it's kinda old. | |
I dunno, sounds like it would probably be your code, actually. How do these monsters decided where to walk? Can you show us some code for that?
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Byond can handle hundreds of objects moving around... show us the code - it's likely that you can get it to run much faster, although you might have to make significant changes.
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