64 limit back?

[ruprect]

There was a very old saying when you had enemies appearing and then disappearing called the "64 bug" where only 64 players would be able to be shown during battle in a particular framework. Just now 8:00 p.m. PST in a battle in Carignan, I saw enemy planes disappearing and then reappearing. This was disconcerting because they were not grey circles, they were red. Anyone else notice this?

[ian00]

Yeah definitely seeing this - there is / has always been a visible player limit. I thought it was upped from 64 but there is still a hard limit.

The most annoying thing is that the game doesn't seem to prioritise what it renders. I would much rather be seeing enemy units than friendlies - having a Stuka appear 500m away from your aa gun sucks.

But then the whole rendering engine needs an overhaul. It's single threaded and FPS seem to be tied to the "projectiles" part of the game. (e.g. you still get the same fps looking at the inside of a tank or the outside world)

[OLDZEKE]

In the game preferences settings there is a "visible players limit" setting.

Low is aprox 64, med aprox 96, high aprox 128.

[OLDZEKE]

Yeah definitely seeing this - there is / has always been a visible player limit. I thought it was upped from 64 but there is still a hard limit.

The most annoying thing is that the game doesn't seem to prioritise what it renders. I would much rather be seeing enemy units than friendlies - having a Stuka appear 500m away from your aa gun sucks.

But then the whole rendering engine needs an overhaul. It's single threaded and FPS seem to be tied to the "projectiles" part of the game. (e.g. you still get the same fps looking at the inside of a tank or the outside world)

It does or always has at least.

There are rare occasions that it seems to not give ea highest priority for aaguns, but for me at least a restart of the game always fixed it.

[ruprect]

I actually had never seen this in many years until lately. I vaguely remember there was a "fix" some years ago. After said "fix" I had not seen this happen. Perhaps it is a good sign of the times that we have that many people in a battle again, but having enemy aircraft appear, disappear, and then reappear is not good for the game going forward in expecting a Steam launch. This needs to be a priority investigation.