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Improved Quake Re-Release support -- addressing 2 issues reported last week. Zero Ping Movement Mode (sv_allow_zircon_move 1, to try it in single player -- must also do cl_movement 2) -- Zero Ping Movement can make cooperative games playable at 1000 ping with 55% packet loss. Real-time Light Memory Issue Fix from DarkPlaces Github implemented (thanks to bones-was-here)! See readme.
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Wow finally fixed the bug with crash whenever I pick up any items. Some suggestions: hotkeys for quicksave and quickload should be used by default in config.cfg, same for + and - to increase/reduce status bar size. In the gif you are playing dimensions of the machine and look quite fast, when I play it with Zircon it's extremely slow on start map, except when I remove the RT dlights. I'd gladly remove them for a better FPS, but rockets, grenades, explosions and thunderbolt doesn't make light anymore
Thank you for the feedback!
"except when I remove the RT dlights"
Are you playing it with real-time lighting on? If so, you have quite the machine. I'm not sure what to say if that is the case, real-time lighting is very expensive -- not much of a big deal with the stock Quake maps but the Dimension of the Machine maps are quite the opposite. I do not have realtime lighting on, just default settings in gif.
"Some suggestions: hotkeys for quicksave and quickload should be used by default in config.cfg, same for + and - to increase/reduce status bar size"
I used the stock Quake defaults, which have those keys ...
bind + sizeup
bind = sizeup
bind - sizedown
bind F6 "echo Quicksaving...; wait; save quick"
bind F9 "echo Quickloading...; wait; load quick"
I think the engine is not handling the start map for Dimension of the Machine perfectly -- current Zircon is based on DarkPlaces Beta and old Zircon based on DarkPlaces Classic actually appears to do better on that particular map (not typical, DarkPlaces Beta is way faster) --- so there is actually a performance issue I want to investigate further, but I am not certain how quickly I can spend time on that.
But I noticed it does not seem to be as fast as expected on the Dimension of the Machine start map -- and at some point I want to figure out why (and presumably fix it). The renderer in DarkPlaces is very complex so it takes a serious effort to unwind and look through what it is doing differently on that map, and then to identify where it is doing it.
No ofc i dont play with RT lights on
Ok, you meant the regular dynamic lights. In time I am going to see what is going on with the rendering speed of Dimension of the Machine start map.