1055: Keep track of lost frames and update time r=heinrich5991 a=Jupeyy
The problem a friend was occuring was, that on a fresh Windows install settings like cl_refresh_rate are set to 480.
Since the render calls take longer time than no render calls, it happened that client was sleeping on one update cycle and then took to long in another, where it called the render functions, leeding to less FPS than the cl_refresh_rate. this caused mouse lags and rarely frame drops.
another thing is, that select on Windows is non microsecond accurate, or just often returns too early, which caused that the refresh rate is much too high, or even ignored, (probably windows can only sleep on milliseconds, or again, is extremly inaccurate).
Another things on windows is that time_freq might be a "very odd" number ^^
i mean like on unix it's one microsecond (1,000,000 = 1s), but on windows the time_freq depends on the CPU leading to inaccurate calculation of the sleep time and render time.
This wasn't insanly huge issue, but probably skipped a few microseconds here and there.
This fix should stabilize the frames. I'd like to hear your opinion on this tho.
947: Add support for extra chunks in teehistorian r=Learath2 a=heinrich5991
This allows to add rarely-used chunks without increasing the file format
version.
953: Overhauled job system r=Learath2 a=heinrich5991
The engine now takes `std::shared_ptr<IJob>`, this will ensure the
appropriate lifetime of the given parameters, it also allows for proper
destruction. Remove the now obsolete `IFetcher` interface and `CFetcher`
class.
Also adds some locks to `CUpdater`, previously it didn't have any locks
at all.
The engine now takes `std::shared_ptr<IJob>`, this will ensure the
appropriate lifetime of the given parameters, it also allows for proper
destruction. Remove the now obsolete `IFetcher` interface and `CFetcher`
class.
Also adds some locks to `CUpdater`, previously it didn't have any locks
at all.
869: Complete rework of the ghost and race recorder r=Learath2 a=Redix
This PR fixes a lot of issues with the ghost and race recorder, introduces a new ghost file format and implements some pretty useful features.
**A quick overview:**
- When you cross the start line multiple times, both (ghost and recorder) will only restart if it is a non-solo server
- If available, both will use the race timer to recognize the start instead of searching for the start line
- Fastcap support for both
- The recorder immediately starts when the Tee spawns, so the preparation steps (which are quite important for speedruns) will be included in the demo. If you do not cross the start-line within 20 seconds, it will stop the demo until you really start.
- Better ghost menu (colors, reloading, deleting and saving ghosts)
- The ghosts are more resistant against lags (old ones were sometimes completely useless due to small lags)
- New ghosts files are significantly smaller
- Cleanup, bugfixes..
**About the new ghost format (version 4/5):**
This format is used by Teerace for over a year now. The code for handling the binary files was moved to the engine. It includes an auto updater which creates a backup of all ghosts and converts them to the new format afterwards. The major differences from the format used by DDNet right now (version 2), are the ability to store multiple types of data, the usage of delta-encoding and a more portable header.
For whatever reason, the ghost stores values for every predicted tick, but without tick information, so lost snapshots can make them unusable. The new code uses the original values from the snapshots including ticks but it can also handle the old ones without. Since hardly any server uses the high bandwidth option this practically reduces the file size.
Like the demo recorder the ghost recorder directly stores the data to a file (every 50 snapshots) instead of writing the whole file at the end of the race. Indeed this can be changed with only a few lines if the old behavior is preferred.
The updater can handle version 2 (DDNet) and 3 (old teerace format, only slightly different from version 2) files. The updating already happens when the files are scanned for generating the list in the menu and not only when you activate them. The change from version 4 to 5 was only needed due to a bug in the implementation, the ghost loader can read both.
Some numbers about the file size: (map: hotrun, both about 30 seconds)
- Old ghost: 30.4 kB (converted: 10.7 kB)
- New ghost: 5.4 kB
**One thing about the race recorder:**
The old implementation compared the new file only with the first file it found for the particular map. The new one compares with all related demos and deletes them possibly, so that only the best demo is left. Since DDNet can also store the demos without name, this might also delete demos from other players, that you might have in your directory.
To prevent this I at least check whether the demo contains the player name if `cl_demo_name` is on.
In my opinion the better solution would be to remove `cl_demo_name` and always use the player name.
teehistorian records all inputs from the players as well as the player
positions in each tick. It stores this info in a highly compressible
output format (I've achived 5x compression using xz or bz2).
- Single json file containing all information for the client
- Fetched from https://info.ddnet.tw/info?name=deen
- Replaces versionsrv, news, ddnet-maps.json and ddnet-ranks.json
- Servers are sorted by most popular ones for respective player
- Always stays < 100 ms response time, compared to occasional 50 s for
old ddnet-ranks.json
Also annotate `dbg_msg`, `str_format` and `str_timestamp_ex` so that the
compiler can determine whether the format strings are correct.
Fix the compiler warnings generated by these extra warnings -- some of
them were security issues.
This uses an extended protocol message to signal that rcon
authentication might require a username, allowing the client to enable
the username prompt.
Add a forgotten logout on key update
This also fixes a couple of potential buffer overflows. The affected
code is still buggy (doesn't do the right thing on potential buffer
overflow), but at least it won't result in crashes/out of bound writes
anymore.
This system can easily be extended by independent authors without
collisions, something the old system with plain increasing integers did
not allow.
Do this by utilizing the previously unused message code `NETMSG_NULL`
which has a value of 0.
This works for engine and game messages, snapshot items and events.
This means that we have a reliable and fast way to query for extended info,
while also not wasting network bandwidth.
The protocol is designed to be extensible, there's four bytes space for
encoding more request types (currently zeroed), and there's one string in each
response packet and one string for each player available (currently the empty
string).
The protocol itself has no problems with more than 64 players, although the
current client implementation will drop the player info after the 64th player,
because it uses a static array for storage.
Also fixes#130, the player list is just sorted each time new player info
arrives.
This prevents player name exploits due to tab completion of nicknames
that could result in unwanted commands being executed.
Print a deprecation message that is supposed to be removed in the
future.
This way, servers can no longer hijack the timeout codes of clients.
Timeout codes are generated from md5(seed + dummy + server address).
If `cl_timeout_seed` is set to the empty string, the old config options
are used instead.
reading from and writing to several different servers is now possible
TODO:
-handle Exceptions properly (try another sqlserver)
-if everything fails while writing write the insert to a file
CDataFileReader::Open(): Check the return status of io_read()
before reading the buffer, to avoid reading uninitialized data
in case the file was shorter than a full header.
CSkins::SkinScan(): Check that the image is high enough.
ChillerDragon
