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April 10, 2010 - 9:34pm — shuukei

Towards the end of my most recent game, I started getting huge fps drop to around maybe 5fps or lower(can't give exact numbers, since I don't have fraps installed at the moment, and xfire doesn't support coniclysm yet). I had the same problem prior to the update, but I rarely got to that same point where I lagged prior. It seems to occur when the fighter enemies come around (or the insane amount of pestilence minions I got the one time). I managed to get away from the fighters on the screen and my fps went back up, but as soon as I got near them again, my fps dropped drastically and one of them killed me. I don't know if anyone else is having this problem or not, or if there's a possible solution to it, but I figured I'd post and see if anyone knows anything about it.

In case it matters (or there's a trend), some comp stats:

C2D 1.67
8800GTS
3gigs RAM
win7x64

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April 11, 2010 - 8:53am — Deantwo

ok... it's not really the

ok... it's not really the same thing that happened... but... i controled the world and had big bad boss Zot fly around shooting stuff... (he's mean O_o)... i had taken over all the Room Builders and i had three nice rooms running... i found the best way to get powerful minion to fight the big bady was to just blow up a gate (transport. pick-up and drop a gatekeeper) so yeah bossy had a lot of pestilence minions on him ^^; but slowly the lag got worse and worse... it ended up nearly froozen... i couldn't turn at all... but i could move (forward, backward, to the sides) i could still shoot... but it was so lagy so i couldn't really hit anything anyway...

in the end i just used up my energy and let my self die out in the void ^^;
http://zoopnet.game-host.org/coniclysm/Deantwo%202010-4-11%208-30-16.html

PS: why does it say i destroyed 162 Resurrection Points? (i had three, never killed or lost one, unless it happened after the lag started)

April 11, 2010 - 9:29am — Zoop

I have not had any serious

I have not had any serious slow-down problems for quite a while, so I am interested to find out what was going on at the time to make it slow down. Such as:

-Where there enemy rooms and your rooms going on at the same time?
-How many entities were there flying about?
-How many were enemy entities versus your entities?

Obviously you can't be certain about numbers, but maybe you can make a few guesses. In the meantime, I'll keep on playing the end game here and hopefully I'll run into it myself.

April 11, 2010 - 1:18pm — shuukei

Well, I think Deantwo's

Well, I think Deantwo's problem is the same as mine. I got to the endgame (I think). There were no more rooms or anything, and this beastly thing shooting purple or red shots at me. Needless to say I wasn't prepared for it, and it was fine at first, though I had no way of winning since I was screwing around by destroying early gates with rammer minions to see what would happen, and not building up skills lol.

Then it started slowing down. I didn't know why, cause it was only him shooting. Then I got far away and turned around and realized he had spawned 5 or more (not really sure) fighter minions, each shooting massive numbers of projectiles. My guess is the tons of projectiles are slowing things down to a crawl.

April 11, 2010 - 3:02pm — Deantwo

in my case it was only the

in my case it was only the bossy... i was the only one owning rooms... and the lag first started when i started to let the gatekeepers at him really...
if you look at my high-score you can see that the highest i was fighting was a "Super-shooter" before i started destroying all the rooms and had some of my own build... so the only fighters that were out flying at the time was the ones i build... and that wasn't to many...
my best guess would be the pestilence minions... even saw some enermy pestilence minions on some of my room builders before bossy came out to play, but i think i got them all (they can live in the source? wouldn't that make them double super fast?)
the last thing i really noticed before i killed my self was seeing bossy with a lot on pestilence minions on him... and all the walls of my rooms that kept blowing up from all he's random shooting (aiming for my room builders, hitting the rooms as he went around the source)...

April 13, 2010 - 6:20pm — jaygo

Slowdown at 4,000,000

Slowdown at 4,000,000 points

I guess when you get the slowdown depends on the power of your pc because on my laptop, I begin to get slowdown at or just before 4m points. By this time, the rooms are getting complex and I've got about half the room builder v1 upgrade and up to entity builder v1. I think it has alot to do with the game drawing what is inside rooms that you are not inside, or some depth render bug... I think adding a "fog of war" visibility limiter to the options (reducing the poly's rendered at long range) will help fix this issue.

My laptop isnt top of the line by any means.
Pentium Dual-Core 2ghz
3gb ram
ati radeon 4330 HD
win 7 32

April 13, 2010 - 8:48pm — Danieros

It really depends on computer

It really depends on computer power I guess, or something like that.

My current top score which is #4, the reason for my death was low fps which led me to death. I went into a full room with loads of enemy fighters, snipers, sappers, etc and I had a slow down, so I entered the nearby wormhole, to find myself into ANOTHER room of those, which led me to a ridiculously low fps in which I couldn't even properly pause the game before dying.

Intel Core Duo 2.4 GHz
Geforce 9800 GX2
2 GB RAM
XP Professional 32-bits.

May 27, 2010 - 8:35pm — Error302

i've been playing for a few

i've been playing for a few days and my lag problems happen when this really mean entity joins the fight (i guess that's the boss since the source doesn't have an entity at the center anymore) and he comes out and start tearing my rooms up, which i don't really mind, but eventually he'll kill a room that has those special gatekeepers, in particular, that one that spawns the little leechy minions. anyway, pretty soon he'll have a bazillion of them on him, and he's sapping energy from them, and they're sapping energy from him, and multiplying, and my framerate quickly drops down to about one frame every 2 seconds, which is most definately unplayable. perhaps an upper limit on the total number of entities or particles might remedy the situation. unless of course you think "death by lag" is a good feature =P

ASUS Notebook G60Vx Series
4 BG ram
Windows 7
Intel Core2 Duo P7450 2.13Ghz