The Powder Toy

Why is PLNT so laggy?

  • Jokersona     12th Feb 2018 Member 0 Permalink

    On 92.5 for Windows, PLNT is extremely laggy for some reason. I've experimented with other elements and most others don't lag near as badly. A full screen of sand gets me to around 25 to 30 FPS... a full screen of plnt? Down to like 1 FPS and near ready to crash/stop responding. Even heac is less laggy than plnt...

  • jacob1     12th Feb 2018 Developer 0 Permalink
    @ChargedCreeper (View Post)
    Maybe you have a lua script that adds an update function to plant?

    It's not this laggy for me. HEAC is definitely laggier
    Edited once by jacob1. Last: 12th Feb 2018
  • Jokersona     12th Feb 2018 Member 0 Permalink

    Nope no lua at all.

  • jacob1     12th Feb 2018 Developer 0 Permalink
    I don't really know then. Could always restart TPT and make sure there's no autorun.lua. I don't know what besides console/lua would cause it to lag that badly.
  • Jokersona     12th Feb 2018 Member 0 Permalink

    I just figured it out. I was running the snapshot... which was way laggier than the current stable build. Both the snapshot and stable are labeled as 92.5.336. What changed between the two?

    Edited once by ChargedCreeper. Last: 12th Feb 2018
  • jacob1     12th Feb 2018 Developer 0 Permalink
    @ChargedCreeper (View Post)
    Oh, I accidentally left in a debug print in PLNT's update function. It's printing something to output once every frame for every plant on screen. This is incredibly laggy.

    I'm doing a new snapshot now to fix it, but I might go to sleep if it fails to compile or if I get too tired.

    Thanks for catching it. (Although I think @suibian reported it first)
    Edited once by jacob1. Last: 12th Feb 2018
  • QuanTech     12th Feb 2018 Member 0 Permalink
    pffft lazy developers these days.... (plz no kill)
  • NF     12th Feb 2018 Member 0 Permalink

    @QuanTech (View Post)

     It was around twelve in the morning ... in me and his timezone. @jacob1 Thank you for solving this.

    Edited once by NUCLEAR_FOX. Last: 12th Feb 2018
  • moonheart08     14th Feb 2018 Member 0 Permalink

    @jacob1 You should probably rename PLNT to POTA, for Potato. It's your favorite food, and it screams the size of a table every frame.

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