Question about Multi-core rendering.

Garry's Mod general
#1

Hey guys,

Before I start, please understand, THIS IS A QUESTION NOT A RANT (read the whole thing before posting…). Now that that’s out of the way, I see people getting permabanned every time someone make a post (witty or otherwise) about how Garry should implement multi-core rendering (now that Source supports it). I was wondering, how much of Garry’s Mod’s overlaying Lua code would have to be rewritten to implement multi-core rendering and how long would it realistically take given the resources. I know Lua/C/etc… but I don’t know GLua or the framework of Garry’s Mod’s Lua structure (documentation is not there :P). Would someone (maybe Garry if you’re not too busy?) answer this? As well as for other things people have been saying (like server side multi-core, LuaJIT lag, etc…), what does it really take to fix them. If someone can answer my questions, it would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

[FeC]BlitzkriegXX.

#2

Documentation is wiki.garrysmod.com or gmodwiki.com

#3

Uh, it is implemented?

#4

The option is there, but it does nothing.

#5

About LuaJIT lag. The only situation where there’s lag (which I’ve noticed) is when using wiremod. As garry himself said, there’s probably code that keeps recompiling.

#6

Seems silly to me. If Wiremod is the only thing holding back LuaJIT then Garry should force it anyway and let them work out the details.

#7

Oh. Sorry then. I was only saying that because I saw the option in the options menu.

#8

When I said Lua structure I meant the code itself, how it’s been coded does it make adding multi-core significantly difficult, all I see on the wiki is reference material for devs, nothing about how the Lua system is coded.

#9

turn threading optimization on in your gpu control panel for gmods hl2.exe

#10

All performance related settings are already on.