GearCity 1.18.4 Progress Thread

[Eric.B]

I've fixed two minor bugs, both having to do with rapid image values declines. Other than that I've spent the last two day attempting to optimize the game's performance. I have made some progress, although I've redone my work in various ways 3 different times. The first attempt got us around an 8% decrease in turn times (between 1900-1910, full AI) however the data it was producing was not within my acceptable margins and would of required a few days to get the formulas producing close to previous results. If it was even possible.

Second attempt got us around 0.3% performance gains. It was pretty easy to do however.

The third attempt, what' i'm on now, is about 1-2% performance increase without many errors in the data. I might be able to squeeze out a 1-2% more by the time I'm done tomorrow. (May also have RnD sliders slightly less laggy, but we'll see.)

I also built a better internal profiler. So the next time I get around to optimizations I'll be able to get results of my changes much better.

So it looks like a Tuesday hotfix won't happen. I'm going to spend probably a half day finishing up optimizations tomorrow then get back to fixing bugs. Toward the end of the week I will be limited to a Mac Mini, so I will work on the Mac port, then return back to the main work computer to hopefully knock out the last remaining bugs for 1.18.2 before next weekend!