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IdontRuin6 years ago (1 edit)

it happens when you open it first time after starting the game always, after that usually it happens when you open the bodies/portraits selection alternatively.. so for example : 

start game -> open bodies selection *game hangs* -> open portrait selection *game hangs* -> open portrait selection again *no hang this time* -> open bodies selection *game hangs*.. 

also if you don't open any of the two for a few minutes it will restart so example :

start game -> open bodies selection *game hangs* -> play for 15-20 mins -> open bodies selection *game hangs*


I know this would probably not be an issue if all of these where on an SSD, but not everyone has an SSD or (in my case) free space on his/her SSD.

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Kyler26 years ago

I made a mod where it loads the images on-demand, instead of all at once. I likely need to update it so it works with 0.5.20a and it's tweaks to load them as smaller images. However if you run 0.5.20 and the mod, it'll likely be a ton faster than what you see in 0.5.20 without crazy memory usage unless you spend the time to scroll through the entire list.

The 0.5.20a update fixes the memory issue but it should actually make the load time LONGER, as before it was just loading them into memory. If you had enough memory, it'd finish.  Now it loads them and resizes them.  0.5.20a will take longer to load than 0.5.20, but yes it will use less memory.

With large portrait collections, the delayed loading is vastly more useful than converting them to smaller portraits. However the combination would be great too. I can probably update the mod for 0.5.20a tomorrow, maybe later today.

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Strive4Power6 years ago

The idea was to make it load long only once when it generates the thumbnails, as after generating it, there should be no reason to generate them again. However, the problem might be that loading thumbnails is still costly in terms of performance (loading and processing new image file, whatever its size).

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Kyler26 years ago

Yeah I mean this is better than before as before for most people it'd never finish loading, but it still takes a really long time even on an i7-8700k to load a bunch of images.  The delayed loading i implemented isn't the best user experience as it loads them in the main UI thread. I was curious if i can offload that to the background somehow, then it'd be perfect.

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IdontRuin6 years ago

If you read like 2 messages above the one you replied to, you realize that this is without your mod, and I'm actually suggesting using your mod (as I'm using it usually, just had to test without it after I've read the update notes and it said there is a fix..)

Long story short, your mod works wonderfully even with 0.5.20a so no need to change anything in it.

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