The Powder Toy

How about a Speed Up function

  • Rconover     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Now I realize that this may have been suggested many times before.

    How bout a function that can skip multiple frames at a time to speed up reactions where there can be a proportion of some sort like 1:2 frames where every frame that goes by, the simulation advances it by 2.

    Or even proportions of 1:3 or 4 or 5, where for every frame that goes by, the simulation is advanced by 3, 4, or 5.
  • cracker64     17th Jan 2011 Developer 0 Permalink
    no, it would not be sped up any, reactions are happening as fast as they can. The graphics is only a minor part, and it would not help to skip it.
  • Cr15py     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    The only real way of speeding it up like this would be to allow scalable multi threading(manually scaled for these purposes), so that you can tweak the number of threads and maximize speed. Other than that, good luck.
  • Rconover     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    I used Cheat engine to speed up TPT

    my theory does work, but only because I use Cheat Engine to set a multiplier.
  • razorbeetle     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    When you say allow multi-threading does that mean it could be simply switched on? (my i7 is begging for more threads)
  • Felix     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    SIMD is really beneficial for TPT, hopefully with AVX and FMA from AMD we can see some major speed-ups. Nothing that will be similar to what a proper multi-threaded engine would produce, but then again there is a reason that has not happened yet.
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