What is slowing the toolset down?

[Legacy_olivier leroux]

               Just curious:

What is it that makes the Aurora toolset or modules full of placeables and scripts and NPCs load areas slower on some machines than on others? Is it possible for the toolset to actually work fast, e.g. open areas and windows quickly? Or will this always been an issue, no matter how good your PC is equipped?

Does RAM play a role here (e.g. could I increase the working speed by adding some) or is it dependent on the processor? The graphic card? Or is it just in in the programming of the engine and no hardware components can ever improve it?
               
               

               

                     Modifié par olivier leroux, 05 septembre 2010 - 05:28 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Shia Luck]

               It's pretty fast on mine now... but it's a new Dell Studio laptop with Win7, so a massive upgrade from my old XP machine with only one core and less ram and a much less powerful vid card. Obviously I can't say which component helps most, sorry.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shadooow]

               Yes, if you got 50 system stores containing loot as me, the area is loading quite long even on good computer '>. It has 2MB

Also some my dungeons loads longer, thats due to large number of waypoints, sounds, triggers and area size.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par ShaDoOoW, 05 septembre 2010 - 05:54 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Lightfoot8]

               This is just a guess:  



I think the one component that could make it faster is the Disk Drive.  A high disk cache and keeping your drive defragmented.  The way I see it,  When playing the game the data is loaded from a continuous file storage.  The toolset on the other hand breaks the module down into one file per resource.  Forcing the system to do a bunch of individual loads every time you change an area.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_NWN DM]

               CPU speed (and number) and RAM available.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Calvinthesneak]

               You also can set affinity for the toolset.  I can't remember where off hand, but you could manually set it from the task manager to see if it helps.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Bard Simpson]

               

Calvinthesneak wrote...

You also can set affinity for the toolset.  I can't remember where off hand, but you could manually set it from the task manager to see if it helps.

The affinity setting is in nwntoolset.ini. I found a topic on the old forums called Question to forum - quad core computer that had a post by Brian Chung (the 4th post down); Brian made some good points on what settings may be helpful.