profileGameStart observations

[pulsar loom]

For those curious how the generate framecapture looks - overall there is an init scope for the whole phase

Dedicated server:

Most is data loading (pbo/ebo)

Next significant is stringtable and config parsing, as well as config merge

Followed by eventhandler processing (cfgFunctions and preInit?)

most is not covered by subscopes - so hard to tell what is happening

[frank tiger]

That is hard drive though right?

[pulsar loom]

finally animPreloading - from what i understand due to animCache it should be different from time to time

[pulsar loom]

Slowness is probably rather from RAM exhaustion

[frank tiger]

Your CfgMerge takes almost 8 second.
Even with a ton of mods mine doesn't take more than 1

[tall hound]

@pulsar loom is that A3+DLC+CDLC SPE or also mods ?

[pulsar loom]

Yes but server (shrinked data) - SPE loaded also as PBO version

A3 is on CT1000MX500SSD1 (SSD)

[tall hound]

what's the total size (of the all data), just for approximation

[pulsar loom]

Actually not shrinked data for profiling

[pulsar loom]

With workshop folder?

[tall hound]

ye, all what's loaded

[pulsar loom]

300-400 GB

well loaded is sth else

(could be logged to rpt ;))

[tall hound]

would take in ideal case 13 seconds to sift thru all the data (teoretical 550MB/s max on SATA) in reality it would be 2-3 times more (that's just total numbers, in reality the headers / config data will take way less time)

[pulsar loom]

A3 itself is 70 GB
@@WW2_SPE is 29,5 GB
F:\Workspace\A3Data@SPE_Dev is 762 MB (old intel M SSD)
but i have also -filePatching - i guess that may count towards that overall loading time

[frank tiger]

filePatching needs to look up every file read separately on disk. That may indeed cause some delays.

[pulsar loom]

plus old CPU+RAM speed could also slow down, no?

CPU - Intel Core i7 3820 @ 3.60GHz
RAM - 16,0GB DDR3 @ 787MHz (11-11-11-28)

i will retry in coming days with no other apps running + ram free

client naturally has some more scopes - what is a bit strange here that it lists the modfolders twice

client loaded also way faster (~7s vs 37s for IBankAddon, 2,3s vs 6s for stringtable, 3,8s vs 5,9s for configs) - both runs with -fP

profile loading on client (~2s) - probably contains way more stuff, vs minimal for DS profile

additional notable scope on client are draw viewdistance, simul weather prep, world loading (why EHs does that cover?), vehicle preload

anim preload is almost same for DS and client (17 vs 18s)

[frank tiger]

should be more than twice actually.
addons, dta, campaigns?

The first big script block is preStart.
The second one is some preInit in the main menu background world

You are flooding me with alot of useless info

[pulsar loom]

see the initial message in the thread

[pulsar loom]

@waxen sail seems mostly the config merge. however it lacks the subscopes to really tell.
you could try -noLogs and see if this only cuts down the rpt part (300 ms or 0.01% of the 370s), or actually more

PhysMem: 64 GiB, VirtMem : 131072 GiB, AvailPhys : 44 GiB, AvailVirt : 131068 GiB, AvailPage : 57 GiB, PageSize : 4.0 KiB/2.0 MiB/HasLockMemory, CPUCount : 8
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor

give your hardware (i guess a NVME or fast SSD too), Dedmen may be interested to learn more. probably best to DM him the logs as he may no notice otherwise

the EH processing with 44s seems also very long - yet also much not covered by subscopes

anim preload with 58s seems also very long

[waxen sail]

yeah SSD is NVMe M.2 WD_BLACK SN7100
OS is latest win11 I guess

[pulsar loom]

what is also different to mine that you have no additional threads (but one for file loading)

this is mine (for same game version) - yet way older hardware

like you load way more mods, yet seems strange to me the way the profiling looks. maybe Dedmen can tell more from it, or will need to add more subscopes first to understand better