Massive lags

Massive slow down of game after some time (10-20 minutes) for all players. Many people seemed to have a CPU problem, and even after pausing some time (all cpu back to green), when unpaused, speed remained very slow.

Games exited, so can't put a link to the replay. Watching replay still shows massive slowdown.

Does any of the above makes sense to come up with a probable cause and fix?

Post the replay. It will have been saved locally in demos.

You could also help the benchmarking here: zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/28646

Thanks for the report. I found the issue.


It should be fixable. I had not gotten around to trying.

For now here is a workaround:

i like the workaround

I was going to report it.. after maybe one more game. Oh well. Do I at least get an early unban if it's fixed?

workaround shud stay even after fix. just to be secure

I can't understand why you did that, so maybe you can explain.

From my point of view, when I find a bug I try to reproduce it locally (not with 24 people that do not know we are testing), then report it, then test when a fix is proposed.

What I think you did: found some bug, broke (at least) 2 games, without getting anything out of it (or are you working for some RTS competitor?).

What you could have easily done not to get everybody angry: test yourself locally, tell people you know when this happens, ask someone to make a bug report.

And regarding your last post: you are free to play something else, or fix it. If you annoy the admins they are free to ban you. So it is not about "fault" it is about result of actions (sometimes called responsibility).

Listen GoogleFrog If I am antisocial why does Firepluk or moepmoep not have any bans? they're constantly toxic and don't play for their team. I at least play for my team and try to win, maybe not by doing the best of stuff, but I do at least help somewhat. These 2 eat metal, go troll, feed enemy metal when their comm dies, and they get 0 penalties, not even a warning.

Nobody is here to defend Firepluk or moepmoep, yet you are either misrepresenting their ban history or have really not been paying attention. Those two mostly rage, bully, and selfishly execute bad/risky strategies against the wishes of their team. these anti-social behaviours should be curtailed, yet I put them on a different level to repeatedly and intentionally breaking the whole game for everyone. You were not 'merely' unpleasant or abrasive, you were wasting everyone's time.

Was related to gauss, see https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/issues/3550