Terrible lag in my Job System

Yeah, I hit another snag.

It seems like after changing job, a lot of lag starts to form in the job menu, moving in it becomes sluggish and message boxes appear very slowly. The only reason I can actually think of that could be actually causing this, is the actual events that are being used for the system.

My system DOES continuously load the pictures (about 6-7 pictures) over and over again due to there being no end for the Parallel Processing events, so I think that could be the issue. But if it is, how could I get the events to stop looping?

If you need anymore detail about the system, I will happily do it.

I'm not too used to using 2K3, but have you tried using End Event Processing or Erase Event?

I've tried End Event Processing, but I still get the strange lag. I also don't want to Erase the Event as it needs to stay there for the system to work.

Thanks for the help though.

The pictures being shown over and over is your issue; rm2k/3 cannot handle it.  Instead of a parallel process checking and putting up pictures continuously, you'll want to change that to checking and putting up pictures when something changes (i.e. when the cursor moves, when the player selects something, stuff like that).  I can't go into more detail unless I saw the code for your system, but that's the gist of it.

Sorry for the late reply, I became inactive for a while.

Anyway, here is how it works:

The Parallel Process is checking the base level, job level, current AP and job of the character, but because it is a parallel process it continues to do it over and over again with any break in the loop. I can't do it by when the cursor moves as it still would be a parallel process so it would just lag after switching on that process. Yes, with it being triggered by a cursor movement means I can just switch off the process after it has done what needs to be done, but I wouldn't be able to do this as after it being switched off, the pictures would surely disappear along with the event (which would now be switched off).

That's basically the system in nutshell along with your idea using a manual trigger.

Thanks for the idea, but sadly it wouldn't work.

So you're not reshowing the pictures every frame? A few conditional branches shouldn't be causing lag. Also, the pictures won't disappear until you erase them if it's anything like XP or VX.

The first thing I would suggest is that you put some wait frames, maybe just 1 or 2. Though actually, 2k3 judges wait by seconds, so that wouldn't work... hmmm.

If you wouldn't mind sending me the system, I'd be happy to take a look and see if there is any way I could see to reduce the lag.

I beg to differ

Try something like this:

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:loop
     :Call Event [Base Level Sort]
     :Call Event [Job Level Sort]
     :Call Event [Current AP Sort]
     :Key Input Processing
     :{rest of code}
:end loop


Each of those events mentioned in the code above are just Action Key triggered events either separate on the map or different pages in your parallel process, doesn't matter.  What this code does is find out/display those statistics right off the bat, waits until the player presses the key, and then does it again.  This is a common tactic used by many a custom menu and I think you should find that it works lag-free.

Good luck

Could you not make it only do it every time a new map is loaded? I'd assume ending a battle would count too?

I beg to differ

Try something like this:

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:loop
     :Call Event [Base Level Sort]
     :Call Event [Job Level Sort]
     :Call Event [Current AP Sort]
     :Key Input Processing
     :{rest of code}
:end loop


Each of those events mentioned in the code above are just Action Key triggered events either separate on the map or different pages in your parallel process, doesn't matter.  What this code does is find out/display those statistics right off the bat, waits until the player presses the key, and then does it again.  This is a common tactic used by many a custom menu and I think you should find that it works lag-free.

Good luck

Would you mind going into a bit more detail? I don't see how the loop and Key Input Processing would allow it to do what you said it should. Sorry if it seems silly, but I just need to understand why this would work.

I'm not going to pretend to know what you are doing but mabye you should stick with a more basic
system? like the one showed here(except mabye minus the lvl reset).
http://rmt.divinelegy.com/tutorials/intermediate/jobs.html

Gravedug.

Thanks for being helpful, but do take a look at the big red message that tells you not to post in an old topic. After 6 months, a lot can change (And I'm pretty sure Tez got that working properly).