Zound53B1

[tdw-socke]

Wow, nice information on the BH, thanks Ben

 

[ProAsm]

I can also see this BH causing problems with "slow" hard drives, where a fast PC has a slow HD and possibly not enough cache.
What is your cache set to frogger, it should be a minimum of 25% of your total memory.
[Engine.GameEngine]
CacheSizeMegs=???

 

[tdw-socke]

a question regarding this cachesizemegs, will that be taken from the ram, or from the harddisk? i mean, the 25% of my 1gig ram, will be stolen for caching from my ram, or is it some kind of swapping to disk?

 

[frogger187]

pretty sure its like the page file in windows...HD swapping size..

 

[ProAsm]

Its forward caching and is 25% of your memory with a minimum of 32 megs.
Some of the new modern hard drives come with a built in cache although this cache works slightly different but the principal is the same.
Cache can also be saturated where too much can mean a degregation in performance so I would not go above 256 megs for instance.

 

[frogger187]

i upped cache to 128 (from 32) same results.. random triggers being shown...it is same triggers throughout the match... but can't see a pattern for which ones are shown (same ini as i sent to you Ben)

testing........

actually.. it seems like Hidden=True ones are not being shown.. Hidden=False are. Hidden only means hidden from ingame listing. ShowTrigger is the global setting for showing the trigger in chat.

retesting..........
not all hidden=false are showing... but it seems the only ones that are showing have this set to false. May or may not be related..

 

[ProAsm]

Just looking through the code and I see the following regarding the ShowTrigger:

    if ((Dedicated=True AND (AdminOnly=True OR Hidden=True)) OR (Deicated=False AND ShowTrigger=False AND (AdminOnly=True OR Hidden=True))
        Hide the Trigger from the players both in List and Messages.
    ELSE
    if (Dedicated=True AND ShowTrigger=False)
        Hide the Trigger from the players both in List and Messages.
    ELSE 
        Show Trigger in List and in Message.

 

[tdw-socke]

So these are the combinations to hide the triggers:

Dedicated=True
AdminOnly=True

Dedicated=True
Hidden=True

Deicated=False
ShowTrigger=False
AdminOnly=True

Deicated=False
ShowTrigger=False
Hidden=True

Dedicated=True
ShowTrigger=False

anything else should show triggers.

did you try it the other way round in specifying the rules for showing the triggers and else hiding them?

 

[Assraker]

I'm not having any problems at all with hidden being False or True.....yet.

 

[frogger187]

it must be one of my muts..hopefully this weekend i will be able to get time to test then one at a time..

 

[ProAsm]

Do you guys remember back in v4.9 and before we used to have 2 characters for doing things like:
@ for selecting Random triggers and # for hidden triggers.
We left this in at the time for people to upgrade with ZoundConvert and use the new type of multi triggers as we now have.
These @ and # searches are still in place and take up a lot of CPU time.
Do you think people still use this, can I dump them ?

 

[Assraker]

I know several people, including myself, who have multiple zounds with one trigger.

 

[ProAsm]

Yes, but do you use the Random=5 in the triggerstring or do you use the old Triggername@5 which used to be the old way of doing random triggers, in this case 5 ?

 

[Assraker]

I use the Random=5 as do the others. I do not promote or help setup zounds using the @ personally.

 

[ProAsm]

Just looking at the code I see if an Admin has used the old @ way, it will convert it to the new way anyway so I'll dump those now.
Thanks

 

[ProAsm]

Zound53 Beta 7

1. Fixed the Adminlogin problem

2. Trimmed PlayerBroadcasts - hopefully this eliminated the multi triggers.

3. Added individual Volume settings for each trigger.
This has been a rather long outstanding request which I had actually forgotten about.
At the end of each Trigger string you now have a "Volume=1.50"
This is because different sounds have different levels and now you can adjust that.
The 1st time you run B7 it will automatically add all these ,Volume= what ever the current ZoundVolume= is.
Ingame, if this value is less than 0.1 or greater than 2, then it will use the original ZoundVolume=

http://www.proasm.com/files/beta/z53b7.zip

 

[ProAsm]

Maybe with Beta 7 switch off the warnings as you are going to get a zillion of these:

Warning: Zound DM-Antalus.Zound (Function Zound53B7.Zound.CheckZoundAdmin:000D) Accessed None 'Sender'

I am working on it atm.

 

[frogger187]

speaking on b6 (still at werk..will update to b7 when i get home)..the repeating triggers was fixed with the delay setting...still outstanding is the tirggers being shown. showtrigger=false, but many are still showing..seems randomly..

 

[ProAsm]

Try it with B7, also set the delay back to zero and see if it still clears the problem.

 

[frogger187]

as a sidenote..i don't see delay in the ingame admin menu..