Wiremod affecting fps in game?

[Dav1d]

Essentially...

Gmod is like your girlfriend. She's great and all... but she can be kinda protective. Generally she doesn't mind you hanging out with other girls as long as they don't cut into your "together" time, but when they try to bring the focus on themselves you're in for a world of hurt.

qft (if you lack ram / processing power)
Source doesn't support multi-core processing AFAIK, so more than one core won't make much of a difference unless you're running programs in the background.
Bear in mind that running at your max resolution / in a window will lower your FPS a little, so try running at a lower resolution.
If you're just getting godawful lag, make sure your CPU's clock rate is nice'n fast and you have a substantial amount of RAM.
Other than that.. there's not a lot you can do to increase your FPS.

By the way, let me quote Bull on the matter of deleting things from wiremod:
...
OK so I couldn't find the post but it was him saying this:
"Deleting parts from the wiremod core is not the optimal way of solving problems"
And it's very true.

[Wizard of Ass]

aVoN once mentioned that 32 rt panels are maybe a bit too much...

[Tuollaf]

here is my system spec

Pentium(R) D CPU 2.66GHz running at 3.00 GHz
4.00 GB RAM
win 7 64 bit
and my graphic is a nvidia 8800 ultra

Gmod should run fast as fuck...

[riffraffselbow]

Gmod should run fast as fuck on one core of my Pentium 2.66 ghz processor.

Hah! Good one!

Protip:

Pentium:Core2 equivalence is like 1:2.

[N00bDud3]

Try adding "-heapsize 2048000" to the launch options of GMod, so it will use more memory. Source by default will only use the minimum 256MB. It will run much better if you allow it more RAM.

[Ramishen]

How does one change the launch options of GMod?

[kajar9]

Well, there is a solution what is bit odd But it affects performance ALOT!

This is good to do if the addon you SVN-ed has a lot of files
Like wiremod ,PHX or SB does

Create a folder outisde garrysmod directory, then SVN checkout wiremod there
then EXPORT wiremod to your addon folder (right click on the folder -> Export)
now you see in addons that the "adv_duplicator" "wire" and others don't have the svn symbol on them


SVN files almost doubles the size of wiremod
it has multiple .svn files for every file in SVN and 7 folders per one actual folder (maybe more)
And garrysmod loads them
Export cleans the wiremod from .svn files and folders
And leaves you only things wiremod really needs

if you want to update, then just update the wire folder outside garrysmod and export again.
This works great on addons witch have many files

Wiremod - Works alot faster (with .svn files 120Mb 7647files 1935folders, without .svn files 59.5Mb 2663files 215folders) this includes wire model pack
This is a ratio 2.4 svn files per ONE ACTUAL FILE and 8 folders per ONE ACTUAL FOLDER
I did it on PHX - works alot faster (with .svn files 1.02 GB, without 548Mb) - see the difference
Also on SB - WOW effect! - Removed from my computer at the moment

Also i created an graph to give you an overview
Which shows that garrysmod really needs to load only 34.8% of all files in SVN folder

[riffraffselbow]

Well, there is a solution what is bit odd But it affects performance ALOT!

This is good to do if the addon you SVN-ed has a lot of files
Like wiremod ,PHX or SB does

Create a folder outisde garrysmod directory, then SVN checkout wiremod there
then EXPORT wiremod to your addon folder (right click on the folder -> Export)
now you see in addons that the "adv_duplicator" "wire" and others don't have the svn symbol on them


SVN files almost doubles the size of wiremod
it has multiple .svn files for every file in SVN and 7 folders per one actual folder (maybe more)
And garrysmod loads them
Export cleans the wiremod from .svn files and folders
And leaves you only things wiremod really needs

if you want to update, then just update the wire folder outside garrysmod and export again.
This works great on addons witch have many files

Wiremod - Works alot faster (with .svn files 120Mb 7647files 1935folders, without .svn files 59.5Mb 2663files 215folders) this includes wire model pack
This is a ratio 2.4 svn files per ONE ACTUAL FILE and 8 folders per ONE ACTUAL FOLDER
I did it on PHX - works alot faster (with .svn files 1.02 GB, without 548Mb) - see the difference
Also on SB - WOW effect! - Removed from my computer at the moment

Export (at least in tortoiseSVN) is a pain in the ass, especially when you have 20 seperate svn addons. So, instead, I stole your idea, but I just copy the actual folders (.svn files and all) to my addons folder, then use windows search to delete all instances of *.svn.

edit: I tried to use windows search, but it hung for so long that I assumed it crashed and cancelled it. I ended up using a batch script I "borrowed" from the internet. This script also serves well as a way of inducing epilepsy.

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('DIR /B /AD /S *.svn*') DO RMDIR /S /Q "%%G"

For reference, before and after numbers, gathered from right click -> properties:

117,065 files, 19,816 folders, 4,865,038,356 bytes, 5,204,897,792 bytes on disk
46,374 files, 3,720 folders, 3,167,753,522 bytes, 3,284,201,472 bytes on disk

Batch took ~1 minute to complete.

Of course, this method mean more total HDD consumption from your addons (assuming you keep a seperate copy with the svn files for updating), but potentially faster running and loading times

[kajar9]

Export (at least in tortoiseSVN) is a pain in the ass, especially when you have 20 seperate svn addons. So, instead, I stole your idea, but I just copy the actual folders (.svn files and all) to my addons folder, then use windows search to delete all instances of *.svn.

But the most loading DOES the browsing of folders, so what about those?
and your method isn't perfect, it has flaws

And as i say'd it's for svn-s that contain a lot of files
it has almost no effect on SVN-s that have around 10 actual files

[riffraffselbow]

But the most loading DOES the browsing of folders, so what about those?
and your method isn't perfect, it has flaws

And as i say'd it's for svn-s that contain a lot of files
it has almost no effect on SVN-s that have around 10 actual files

deleting *.svn deletes both files and folders named *.svn. It's the EXACT same thing as exporting, except it's a tiny bit more dangerous (technically, it could corrupt an addon that contains files with the filetype .svn, but no addons contain any, certainly not any distributed via SVN)