UpdateAppTime causing hangs

[Chiblue]

I have been experiencing a problem with my project, when I am running my app it keeps hanging for a fraction of a second, but enough to be a pain... my FPS is in excess of 500 so I know it is not that...

 

So I added a logging class and wrote out to the log after each function call in my main loop...

 

WriteLogData("Start");
UpdateAppTime();
WriteLogData("End UpdateAppTime");
game.scene.Update();
WriteLogData("End Update");
game.MouseLook(game.scene.cam);

 

I stopped the game immediately I hit a hang up.. this is the log..

 

6886407.000000 : End DisplayHudControls
6886407.000000 : End
6886407.000000 : Start
6886815.500000 : End UpdateAppTime

 

The time stamp is app time.. I normally see < 15 for every UpdateAppTime Call, except when I get the hangs and I then see over 400 or more...

 

Can someone explain what this does and why it would hang?

 

FYI...

I am running Vista 64 ultimate.. on a quad core intel processor, 8gb memory and SLI GTX 8800 OC vidoes cards..

[Marleys Ghost]

Isnt UpdateAppTime() called in UpdateFramework()?

[Chiblue]

I am using gamelib... but I never said I was not doing something wrong....lol

[Marleys Ghost]

I am using gamelib... but I never said I was not doing something wrong....lol

 

 

I never meant to imply you were lol .. but I thought you don't have to call UpdateAppTime() as it was called from UpdateFramewerk() which I think is called behind the "scenes" in GameLib maybe calling it too often might be the cause of the hangs

[Chiblue]

Easy to test...

[Marleys Ghost]

ok .. see if it helps ...

[Chiblue]

I took it out... same problem...

 

9171152.000000 : Start

9171713.000000 : End Update

 

Woow this was almost 600... I guess it is called somewhere else...

 

Strange thing is now the game.scene.Update() is causing the delay... which maybe were is was also being called from...

[Niosop]

Have you tried restarting your computer to see if the problem goes away? I notice a lot of weird timing issues start happening w/ LE after a while, a reboot seems to fix them. Not sure if it's related though.

[Marleys Ghost]

I'd have thought game.scene.Update() was Gamelibs call to FramewerkUpdate() ? best person to say would be Lumooja.

[Chiblue]

Have you tried restarting your computer to see if the problem goes away? I notice a lot of weird timing issues start happening w/ LE after a while, a reboot seems to fix them. Not sure if it's related though.

 

I have restarted my machine about 20 times in the last 2 days, I lost a drive in the raid set and had to rebuild it...

[Chiblue]

It is actually the raycast, my logs were decieving because time is only updated once...

 

12254122.000000 : PlayFPSAnimation - EntityPick

12254630.000000 : PlayFPSAnimation - EntityPick Done

 

This is the call..

 

int hit = EntityPick(&pickent,gun,weap->maximumrange,0,0,(BP)PickFilter);

 

This is the call back...

int _stdcall PickFilter( TEntity pickentity)
{
int EntType = GetEntityType(pickentity);
switch(EntType)
{
case 0:  // terrain
	return 1;
case 1:  // terrain
	return 1;	// <10 no force,  but effects..
case 2:  // terrain
	return 1;	// <10 no force,  but effects..
case 11: // Player
	return 0;
case 12:  // Freindly
	return 1;	// 10> force and effects.
case 14:  // props
	return 1;	// 10> force and effects.
case 21:  // Enemy
	return 1;
default:
	return 1;
}

}

 

I also remove the callback and it still hangs.. it is the EntityPick function that hangs.... The distance is 4000... I have also tried the CameraPick with the same results...

[Josh]

What does your scene consist of?

[Chiblue]

Barrels, trees and some fireppits...