BFT frame drop on update

[SecMeyo]

i got a frame drop of ~30 fps when blue force tracking updates. does anyone else experience this?
i am not able to reproduce this in the editor.

Measured using
[]spawn{frames = true;while{frames} do {hintSilent format["%1", round diag_fps];sleep 0.05;}}

Symptoms:
screen freezes for ~0.1 sec exactly when the map markers update their position

Steps to reproduce:

1. create mission with BFT Module
2. load it on a dedicated Server
3. play

[nicolasbadano]

We've had a previous report of this, but it got fixed when restarting the mission and we couldn't repro anymore (@bux). My guess is that's totally unrelated to the bft (other things are calculated on 1 sec intervals too).

[nicolasbadano]

BTW; please follow this instructions for reporting issues: http://ace3mod.com/wiki/user/how-to-report-an-issue.html

Edit the report above to comply; we specially need the rpt log

[SecMeyo]

is there any way to disable bft or change the update interval mid-mission? tried to change ace_map_bft_interval at runtime :p

[PabstMirror]

ace_map_BFT_markers was never getting reset, and we added new marker string to the array each update.

With 45 groups, after 3 minutes count ace_map_BFT_markers = 8100 and was taking
4.39136s / 284 = 15.4625ms. After an hour it would be pretty bad.

after fix, 45 groups seemed to stay arround 5.5ms.

You can change ace_map_BFT_Interval on the module, but can't change it at runtime because it's only used at start.

[nicolasbadano]

Nice find @PabstMirror, gj!

[bux]

That could really be the cause of the frame drops I was experiencing.

[jaynus]

5.5ms

Thats really bad....can you point me to this code? What is it doing? It sounds like it needs some faster string functions tbh.

[PabstMirror]

map/functions/fnc_blueForceTrackingUpdate.sqf
that's with 45 groups, which should be untypically high

[nicolasbadano]

Yes, 5.5 ms seems high, but it's only done one frame a sec + the bft will be completely changed soon.