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    build mode- manually set root block

    in Suggestions & Idea Voting

    Posted

    13 hours ago, Maoman said:

    It's the little button in the mirrors window. I didn't know about it either until I saw it mentioned in this post... I'm guessing you probably use the hotkey to toggle symmetry like I do instead of clicking through the menus
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    At first I used the mouse (now I use the keyboard) - but I never imagined that was a button that set the mirror block. I thought it was just a graphic.

    Win64 - Server - Performance - every frame over 1 second

    in Bugs

    Posted · Edited by phezzan

    Attempting to rewrite the antismuggle scripts.

    They appear to repeat a lot of work:
     - every antismuggle entity scans faction inventory (for licenses) for every ship within detection range every second (until a 'suspicious' ship is found)

    - every antismuggle entity scans every ship's cargo within range (until a 'suspicious' ship is found)

    So if you have a license - a ton of work is being done and ignored every second.

    By caching the license found and ignoring ships that have a maxed out license, most of the work disappears when a player has the best license.

    License cache is updated 10% of the time, or if the requesting faction license was not cached. It would be better to wrap the license purchase / loss events... but I don't know how.

    Once a suspicious ship is found our 'stillSuspicious' check can stop at the first unlicensed good.

    This has radically improved the playability of the game.  The server is not disappearing for minutes at a time.

    Sometimes better - but not fixed.

     

    New beta version is massively better. :D

    antismuggle.zip

    Turret Modification Bug

    in Bugs

    Posted

    There's a block type for building turrets - and there are rules about how to use that block type (as in hull and cargo are block types, so is 'turret base')

    I remember seeing instructions somewhere, but they made no sense to me and I've spent 300+hours in game and never ever attempted to make a turret.

    Making a fighter is also annoying - but I figured it out.

    Why can't you launch Avorion from the .exe?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by phezzan

    Same problem - was trying to build a batch file to set the priority and affinity at the start.  This might also help the client avoid spawning 12 threads when I'm only giving it 4.

    I'm suspicious that much lag relates to waiting for a long running network request.  Steam networking would fit that bill.

    FPS issue near asteroids

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    hd - harddisk. The place all your data is stored.

    Before my SSD - I was suspicious of IO being a problem so I loaded the game into a ramdisk. Fortunately it's not very big. 4GB of RamDisk is plenty.

    I did my research and selected imdisk - (64bit, free, opensource, fast, feature-ful, and the author uses ISO date format proving he's smart)
    http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/

     

    Feel free to do your own research, 
    I'll give you a touchpoint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RAM_drive_software

    Auto-research button

    in Suggestions & Idea Voting

    Posted · Edited by phezzan

    How about this:

    Put any number of turrets into the research slots.   
    Press 'Auto Fill' to fill the remaining slots with similar turrets.

    'Auto Fill' prefers Trash over unmarked over Favorite.

    'Auto Fill' prefers Rarity over Type over Tech Level.

    Review the choices as you see fit.

    Press Research.

     

    If no turret is in the slots 'Auto Fill' picks the lowest rarity and tech level and ignores type.

    NOTE: one or two mods implement something similar.

    Win64 - Server - Performance - every frame over 1 second

    in Bugs

    Posted · Edited by phezzan

    This particular problem may have been related to a very innocuous looking change in sector/background/warzone (deleted the mod's file - problem stopped)

     

    Correction, the problem is still occurring.  Also I wish I had a way to tell the client to limit itself to 4 cores (so I could separate it cleanly from the server's cores).

     

    Update: The problem started again - I was doing 2 'Investigate missing freighters' missions given by the same station at the same time. 
    They were in different sectors (after the first). The performance problem ended when I destroyed all pirates in the final sector of the first mission.
    It started again around the time I found the 'missing freighters' in the second mission and made them aggressive through dialogue.

    That mission was modded with 2 numeric edits: credit multiplier increased and punishment divided by 2.
    That file is now removed. Testing continues.
    ...
    Still a problem.

    ... 
    It seems like some sectors are a problem, but not all. - I've left sectors and had the terrible performance abate, if only temporarily.

    ...

    Inspection suggests Anti-Smuggle script might be the cause. 
     

    serverlog 2020-09-26 07-45-52 - Copy.7z server-perfstats 2020-09-26.7z

    Win64 - Server - Performance - every frame over 1 second

    in Bugs

    Posted · Edited by phezzan

    After playing a while server updates started to take forever. AvorionServer using 17% (2 cores pegged at 100%)

    Repro - no idea. I've seen it happen in an hour, and I've seen it not happen in 6 hours.

    Soon after it started I ran /benchmark (attached). Galaxy is about 1GB. 1 active player. Very little jumping.

     

    Win64. Ryzen 1600 8 threads for the server /HIGH /AFFINITY 0xFF0

    4 cores for the client (High priority, 4 cores not available to the server via taskmgr)

    Client was responsive, but stuck (waiting for server, plenty of fps, sound)

    server-perfstats 2020-09-22 00-37-13.7z serverlog 2020-09-21 22-33-25.7z

    REVISED - Game becoming unplayable, permanently jammed.

    in Bugs

    Posted

    You might disable automatic time updates - Windows will ask the internet for the time and then adjust the time to the new time.
    In theory it wouldn't change more than a second or two, but either your hardware or the internet could mess that up.

     

    Your PC would slowly be more and more off the real time, but time should go back to consistently increasing...

    I'm imagining that events are scheduled in walltime and a sudden jump forward is causing many heavy events to trigger at the same time.

    I suggest rate limiting any heavy(or even medium) processing - put it all into a time sorted queue and only do one per second/frame/etc.
    Otherwise you'll have unpredictable jitter... and jitter is so much pain.

    Win64 - galaxy damaged with clustering enabled.

    in Bugs

    Posted · Edited by phezzan
    Explain that the corrupted (OOS) galaxy had to be restored from backups. 

    Commands file: S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\commands.txt
Initializing sector database...
FileSecurer error: Reading of file "S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\sectors\archive2.db" failed, moving on to the next instance. Error: Unexpected end of file
FileSecurer error: Reading of all instances of S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\sectors\archive2.db failed.
"S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\sectors\meta.db": All instances have the same timestamp. This can lead to issues when loading.
Initializing faction database...
"S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\players\player_1.dat": All instances have the same timestamp. This can lead to issues when loading.
"S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\players\player_1.dat": All instances have the same timestamp. This can lead to issues when loading.

    Steps

    Enable clustering

    Load
    Quit  (Error disk full: 1GB galaxy and ?1GB? free)

    Load - errors as shown.

    Load (restored galaxy from a complete backup and freed up space)

    Quit (no errors)

    Load - errors as shown below. 

    Initializing sector database...
"S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\sectors\meta.db": All instances have the same timestamp. This can lead to issues when loading.
Initializing faction database...
"S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\alliances\alliance_43.dat": All instances have the same timestamp. This can lead to issues when loading.
"S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\players\player_1.dat": All instances have the same timestamp. This can lead to issues when loading.
"S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod\players\player_1.dat": All instances have the same timestamp. This can lead to issues when loading.
Starting up 10 worker threads...

     

    Avorion clustering appears to build the archive files, then copy them and it requires a lot of free space? 
    Why not just rename them?

    The game seems to run fine despite the timestamp warnings - but they (timestamp warnings) appear to come and go.

    High Server Load / Bad Ping w/ R-Mining, R-Salvaging

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Yeah - I have a number of strange performance problems running a 1 person server on localhost in Windows on a Ryzen 1600.

    It's confusing and quite awful.

    Glad you narrowed yours down.  
    Seems like the fix is to create buckets of time when spawning stuff in a small area, and total up everything to be spawned into those buckets.  Then one big ores/scrap can be spawned instead of hundreds of tiny ones.

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    Win64 - Server - mod(s) unable to save to galaxies/NAME/moddata

    in Bugs

    Posted · Edited by phezzan
    client info

    Problems loading / saving config files to %APPDATA%/Avorion/galaxies/NAME/moddata 

    2020-09-06 21-39-34| #0: ResearchStation.initialize data/scripts/entity/merchants/researchstation.lua
2020-09-06 21-39-34| 
2020-09-06 21-39-34| Error calling checkReadSecureFilename: boost::filesystem::weakly_canonical: The request is not supported
2020-09-06 21-39-34| 
2020-09-06 21-39-34| stack traceback:
2020-09-06 21-39-34|     [C]:-1: in function readable
2020-09-06 21-39-34|     [string "..."]:95: in function open
2020-09-06 21-39-34|     ...\445220\1722652757\data/scripts/lib/azimuthlib-basic.lua:419: in function loadConfig
2020-09-06 21-39-34|     S:\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\445220\1731575231\data/scripts/entity/merchants/researchstation.lua:461: in function ?
2020-09-06 21-39-34| 
2020-09-06 21-39-34| [ERROR][AutoResearch]: Failed to load config file 'S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod/moddata/AutoResearch.lua': filename is not secure
2020-09-06 21-39-34| Object: N2cp13ServerScriptsE
2020-09-06 21-39-34| Execution Context (inner to outer):
2020-09-06 21-39-34| #0: ResearchStation.initialize data/scripts/entity/merchants/researchstation.lua
2020-09-06 21-39-34| 
2020-09-06 21-39-34| Error calling checkWriteSecureFilename: boost::filesystem::weakly_canonical: The request is not supported
2020-09-06 21-39-34| 
2020-09-06 21-39-34| stack traceback:
2020-09-06 21-39-34|     [C]:-1: in function writable
2020-09-06 21-39-34|     [string "..."]:97: in function open
2020-09-06 21-39-34|     ...\445220\1722652757\data/scripts/lib/azimuthlib-basic.lua:520: in function saveConfig
2020-09-06 21-39-34|     S:\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\445220\1731575231\data/scripts/entity/merchants/researchstation.lua:480: in function ?
2020-09-06 21-39-34| 
2020-09-06 21-39-34| [ERROR][AutoResearch]: Failed to save config file 'S:\phezz\AppData\Roaming\Avorion\galaxies\Kmod/moddata/AutoResearch.lua': filename is not secure

    NOTE: %APPDATA%\Avorion\galaxies is a mount point for a 2GB (NTFS) RAM Drive.

    NOTE: Admin group has full control. Server is run by the admin user 

    function Azimuth.saveConfig(modName, config, options, isSeedDependant, modFolder, minify)
    local dir = "moddata"
    if onServer() then
        dir = Server().folder .. "/" .. dir
    end
    if modFolder then
        if modFolder == true then
            modFolder = modName
        end
        dir = dir .. "/" .. modFolder
        if onClient() then
            --createDirectory(modFolder)
            createDirectory(dir)
        else
            createDirectory(dir)
        end
    end
    local filename = dir .. "/" .. modName .. (isSeedDependant and '_' .. GameSettings().seed or "") .. ".lua"
    local file, err = io.open(filename, "wb")
    if err then
        eprint("[ERROR]["..modName.."]: Failed to save config file '"..filename.."': " .. err)
        return false, err
    end
    file:write(Azimuth.serialize(config, options, "", true, minify))
    file:close()
    return true
end

    The client is able to save just fine into %APPDATA%\Avorion\moddata (identical permissions)

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