Fix particle lag

[Graion Dilach]

Surprisingly, there hasn't been an issue opened/dedicated for this.

Particle lags are known, especially railgun and Slave Miner-related ones. It is also known that TS hasn't suffered about this problem, instead it used particles much more than RA2/YR did.

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I guess the bug is related to particle-creating. Firing a railgun at close range results with no lag, and the lag increases with range.

[YR M0ddEr (yr-m0dder)]

I think particle and transparent shp need fix.
The question is, how much time is required to fix this?

I would like if someone could explain to me why particles and transparent shp create huge lag.

[DCoder DCoder (dcoder1337)]

Because Westwood can't code.

[Graion Dilach (graiondilach)]

I'm just guessing, but probably transparency is generated flyby on-screen pixel by pixel. And we all know that Westwood didn't code to use the GPU for these... which was designed for this. And if the CPU generates transparency effects, it doesn't really have the time to generate battles.

This could also be extended to particles, since particles are objects and probably every object (every smoke cloud, every railgun pixel) is handled differently. So one single railgun fire = numerous transparent shps are in a line.

[YR M0ddEr (yr-m0dder)]

Would it be possibel to fix the code?
Really, fixing particles and transparent shp is on of the best things that can be done to Ares imo.
So many things can be done with particles, its just endless number of cool stuff!

[falaka21 (falaka21)]

YR Modder ... I have same dreams with you but we don't know how can this take long? Anyway, great idea to fix this shit ,awful lags...Strong support !!!