Extreme slow down

[chrisgp]

In Redridge there is a place called "Three Corners" near the south west part of the map.

http://mmo4ever.com/wow/map.php?id=44&area=1002

If a player goes up on the hill with all the Gnolls on it the framerate drops to 2fps.

This has no effect on other players not in that area.

I tried recompiling an unaltered mangos and refreshing my database. I tried turning off vmap options.

Nothing seems to fix the issue.

Does anyone else see this?

[lillecarl]

Probably there are alot of gameobjects there, they can be undergroud, bit the gfx card still has to calculate all of them, there were a gm on a server i developed who did so in gurubashi arena:) but i think there are tousands of gobs there:)

- LilleCarl

[chrisgp]

I have a tool to monitor GPU usage. When the slowdown occurs my GPU usage percentage falls considerably.

70%-ish just outside the slowdown area falling to 25%-ish inside the slowdown area.

I have a core I5 and HD5770 and this system in the old WoW areas barely breaks a sweat even with high settings.

My fps falls to 1fps and my ping remains 1ms. I think perhaps the client is getting flooded with packets or is getting packets that confuse it?

[lillecarl]

Monitor network usage and cpu usage aswell, does this occur to other people going there?

- LilleCarl

[chrisgp]

It turned out that the issue was caused by two game objects in the UDB database I'm using (which I think is the latest).

It appeared to be 2 campfires sharing the exact same position. They had guids 42508 & 42509.

Deleting them removed the slowdown from the area.

Thanks for your time. Thanks also to everyone who made Mangos possible.

[rumpa]

Had the same issue. Thanks chrisgp, your solution worked like a charm.

No idea if removing the two objects mess something else up, but here is the query needed for easy copy and paste for others:

   DELETE FROM mangos.gameobject WHERE guid IN (42508, 42509);

[VladimirMangos]

Ah, merged flame animation can really affect GPU/CPU if flame implemented in some not good way in client.