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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.08.07 12:10:00 -
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Current computers are still really limited when it comes to real-time computing.
We'll see if the Dragon Code helps as much as promised, or if the reality of 500k pilots with BM and assets spread all over the starcluster reaches todays' technical limits.
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.08.07 13:18:00 -
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I don't think there are two requests for the positions.
As the overview can and will bug out frequently, the flight display works pretty good. The overview probably takes the values from the flight info.
One value will be an estimated one.
This is done by the client to counter possible lag. These techniques are heavily used in FPS style online games. You'd never hit an erratically and fast moving target without guessing where it will be a few seconds later - when your projectile/arrow/fist will be when the target's position got updated to you.
When EVE was younger, you could see when the client and the server compared positions of objects all the time. Objects jumped, formations bounced and we had rubberband flight patterns when exiting warp all the time.
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.08.07 16:44:00 -
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The client tries to draw all frames and it doesn't skip some when it cant process them in real time. That's one of the reason the client sometimes feels like crashed and the server doesn't show any special stuff going on in the logs - the data exchange in the background continues, just not the UI. when the client got a wee bit of air - ie. when your ship is gone, the frames are drwan in fast forward mode while the server's preparing your next data package.
But with fleet battles, ugly reaction time on commands, that's normally server sided lag these days.
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.08.07 19:21:00 -
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Ctrl-Alt-F for FPS only.
Both info windows eat badly into the client performance though. You certainly do not want to test those in tight situations.
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