Today 5/24/20 Update tanks performance with shockwave cannon

[Former user]

If I shoot the shockwave cannon after installing today's update I get sub 1FPS performance. It is pretty much an unplayable slide show. Reverting to the 2019-12-22 download from the website fixes it back to normal.

Windows 10 x64 32 bit 1.3 patch Steam Version

[Frank Sapone]

Interesting, what operating system, CPU, video card, etc. are you using?  Is this in SP or DM?  Does it happen in all game modes?

[Frank Sapone]

I also just tried this on Pentium 3 550mhz with a Voodoo 5 5500 in SP.  map e1dm2;god;giveall and fired the shockwave cannon and it seemed fine.

May be a video card issue or something; but strange either way. Need more information from you to diagnose.

[Michael Davis]

Windows 10 64bit.

Intel i5-4670K

AMD R9 290

Appears to be single player only multiplayer didn’t do it.

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[Frank Sapone]

Did you start a new game? It may be that something in the structs of the save game changed and I forgot to update the version numbers to invalidate the old save games. Something I probably should have done before pushing out this update.

[Frank Sapone]

Try “cheats 1;map e1m1a;god;giveall” and firing the cannon. That would tell us if this is related to a corrupted save game (what I’m thinking it may be) or a deeper issue.

[Michael Davis]

Still does it. I just noticed that it only happens when I actually hit something with it. So I am not sure if it happens in multiplayer or not since I don’t have anything to shoot at.

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Nevermind it is apparently just more likely if hit something it can still happen even if I don’t. Sometimes instead of going really slow it just crashes the game to desktop.

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[Michael Davis]

Went back to the old version and spent 15 minutes running around and firing at everything and it worked fine.

I attempted to turn off all shadows / particles / dynamic lights on the new update and the error still occurs.

[Frank Sapone]

I have been able to reproduce it now. It seems (only in 32-bit) if you fire the cannon then fire it AGAIN while one of the projectiles is still functioning then the game slows to a crawl. Looking into it. Thanks for the help in giving me reproducible steps!

[Frank Sapone]

OK, I figured it out. Will push out a new update shortly. Thanks so much!

[Frank Sapone]

New build is available via auto-updater. Let me know if it works for you.

[Michael Davis]

Yep seems to be fixed.