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Has anybody found a fix for the unbearable UI lag when editing a quest?

theslydertheslyder Member Posts: 2 Arc User
edited June 2013 in The Foundry
Once things become more fleshed out the lag becomes unbearable. Every click takes 2-3 seconds before a menu pops up/goes away. It's making my mission extremely difficult to work through.

Please tell me there's some kind of magic file I can delete like the combat log situation. Or tell me there's a patch in the works that will fix the issue.
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    destinyknightdestinyknight Member Posts: 962 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I've encountered that problem after duplicating a map. Once I deleted the duplicated map. It was fine for me.
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    apocrs1980apocrs1980 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    This is why we have budgets, the more we pack in to our quests the more sluggish the editor becomes-there is no fix for this, I have noticed that sound nodes tend to bog down the editor the most, so I would suggest placing those last.
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    redneckroninredneckronin Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    apocrs1980 wrote: »
    This is why we have budgets, the more we pack in to our quests the more sluggish the editor becomes-there is no fix for this, I have noticed that sound nodes tend to bog down the editor the most, so I would suggest placing those last.

    I'm not at all sure its that simple.

    On my "hidden valley" map I am using over 1300 pys of detail budget and get no lag whatsoever.

    On my current project I am using around 700 and it lags like crazy.

    As regards sound nodes, the current project has about 5 in total, 2 more than the "hidden valley" map.

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    apocrs1980apocrs1980 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    redneckronin wrote: »
    I'm not at all sure its that simple.

    On my "hidden valley" map I am using over 1300 pys of detail budget and get no lag whatsoever.

    On my current project I am using around 700 and it lags like crazy.

    As regards sound nodes, the current project has about 5 in total, 2 more than the "hidden valley" map.

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    As soon as you get to around 4 to 5 maps over 1300 assets you will see the editor start to run like molasses gets worse when 4 sounds or so are placed in each map.
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    shorlongshorlong Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 286 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    I have this issue too, but it happens on a brand new quest on a brand new map as well. Everything else in the game runs smooth, just the 2D editor for me.
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    zlainfurryzlainfurry Banned Users Posts: 163 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    2 maps in a quest, about 1000 assests in each map. 3 sound effects in one of them, 1 sound effect in the other, both lag like hell. =/
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    theslydertheslyder Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    It definitely seems like an erratic issue. I can understand the burden, though. My quest has five maps at the moment. (One about 1500, the others closer to 100-200) Maybe one or two sounds on each. Nothing significant.

    I'd love to be able to work on a map independently of the others so as to reduce the work load, then put them all together when I'm done.
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    lolsorhandlolsorhand Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 981 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    I have a quest with about 5000-6000 details so far doesn't lag at all. (Mind, this one is not published and when a quest isn't published, they seem to lag ALOT less, if any at all.)
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    theslydertheslyder Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    lolsorhand wrote: »
    I have a quest with about 5000-6000 details so far doesn't lag at all. (Mind, this one is not published and when a quest isn't published, they seem to lag ALOT less, if any at all.)

    I'm going to try unpublishing mine in the hopes that it alleviates the problem. I don't think I can finish it with this lag. Fingers crossed.


    Edit:
    No such luck. Unfortunately. I'm wondering if it's associated with the fact that I duplicated a map a while back. Deleting it is no longer an option though, so I guess if that IS the cause I'm just stuck with it.

    Edit 2:
    Just for the sake of posterity and information, I'm letting you guys know that I experimented by duplicating the quest and deleting each map one by one. Starting with the most budget-heavy. It improved the lag, and I took it further my creating a multitude of new maps, which slightly worsened it, but overall didn't affect it significantly. Once I started dropping hundreds of items onto a map, though, it changed things.

    So what I learned here is that even though you're within budget, it can still have a drastic effect on the performance of the 2D editor. I guess I'm just going to have to deal with it if I want to finish. Either that or try to figure out some loophole to "suspend" the existence of some of my maps while I work on others.
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