Blockland is laggier than usual?

[Mr Unicode]

Hi all, I recently reinstalled blockland, and while playing a game I experienced extreme lag, and no, its not my GPU, cause Ive played on 200k bricks with max shadows with no lag at all. The problem seemed to appear out of thin air, considering ive never had this problem before.

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[Trogtor]

have you tried waiting out the lag? I've noticed some mod (i think client_themes) causing my game to lag every time it sees a texture it hasn't loaded yet

[Trymos]

same

200k bricks on some random previous version of blockland netted me 60 fps before

now i get 3 fps on 200k bricks.

[phflack]

when you say "lag", do you mean network or framerate issues?
normally lag is network issues, so it could just be the internet, are you trying to connect to somebody on the other side of the world? are any other things having issues?

[Teneksi]

Well, what do you know. I came here thinking I might post a thread asking what to upgrade if I wanted Blockland to run faster.

I thought either my computer had deteriorated somehow, or that I was only imagining that it used to run a lot faster.

[Teneksi]

Hmm. I renamed the folder, made a fresh Blockland install, and loaded Seattle again. Brick load time dropped from 3:22 to 0:53, and I get a comfortable 40 FPS with max shaders. And it's taking up a third as much RAM.

I guess the answer, for me, may be: I slowly broke it with graphics tweaks and/or excessive add-ons

[Conan]

add on cruft is the biggest issue with the performance of old blockland installs in my experience. i've made multiple over the years and kept migrating - i've finally settled on one final install where i've vowed to keep it clean of addons that I never use, and ensure that any addon development files i put in it are correctly named and organized.

[Superfun909]

have you tried waiting out the lag? I've noticed some mod (i think client_themes) causing my game to lag every time it sees a texture it hasn't loaded yet

it crashes me when I try to print a brick, probably 'cause I have a ton of print add-ons, and yes, you're right, it's client_themes.