Runs unplayably slow

[Spindizzy]

Binary package hint: warzone2100

Prior to installing Jaunty, the game was quite playable, with the only problems showing up with a slight lag in 8 player skirmish towards the end of the game when there's lots of units.

After installing Jaunty, even a two player skirmish quickly becomes unplayable, with updates every 2-5 seconds. The more players, the later in the game, the more lag.

This happens both with the Jaunty 2.1.3 package, and with a fresh compile of 2.2 beta 1.

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

warzone2100:
  Installed: 2.1.3-1
  Candidate: 2.1.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.1.3-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Granted, this is an old IBM Thinkpad T40, but prior to Jaunty, the game ran very well.

[Guangcong Luo (zarelsl)]

You probably forgot to reinstall drivers. Warzone uses OpenGL, so try installing proprietary graphics card drivers.

[Spindizzy (spindizzy-wizard)]

More information:

Everything appears to run perfectly, right up to first contact with the enemy. That's when everything suddenly becomes painfully slow.

I'll try the drivers thing, but I don't think it's going to help. I'll let you know.

[Freddie Witherden (freddie-witherden)]

Please compile 2.2 with profiling enabled and run the game for 2-3 minutes. Then upload the gmon.out file. This will allow us to see where the slowdown is occurring.

[Spindizzy (spindizzy-wizard)]

Okay... I must be stupid. I compiled with the following:

% make distclean
% ./configure --prefix=~/Desktop/myWarzone22b2 --enable-debug=profile
% make
% make install

Then I ran the game in a terminal

% cd ~/Desktop/myWarzone22b2/bin
% warzone2100

And waited for it to get slow, which it eventually did. I let it run for at least another 10 minutes (sorry, got distracted), saved the game, and carefully shut down through the 'quit' menus. So... there ought to be a gmon.out file around here SOMEWHERE... Right?

I eventually did this:

% sudo find / -name 'gmon.*'

The only file reported was the gmon.h file.

What am I missing? I've tried this with debugprofile as well. I've checked the output from make to see that the -pg argument was present, it was. I grep'ed the code to see if there was a 'profile' argument, I didn't see one.

Help?

[Spindizzy (spindizzy-wizard)]

Good news.

Version 2.2 RC 1 _appears_ to have corrected the problem.

Compiled:
configure --prefix=<dir> --enable-debug=no
make
make install

Single player, skirmish, Highland map. Game completed with only a hint at one point of any sort of delay in the game. Either an update fixed it, or someone else figured out where the issue was.

[Spindizzy (spindizzy-wizard)]

Since 2.2 RC 2 appears to fix the issue.