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Newbie / Some Newbie DB Questions
« on: July 20, 2009, 01:47:28 AM »
Hi I'm a new to the DB world and it seems like a very interesting sim but I have a few questions. One is more an observation than a question, using 2.43 it seems to crash quite a bit. It will freeze up and I can't click anything and I have to use CTRL-ALT-DEL to close it. Perhaps this was fixed in 2.44 which I'm just downloading now though.
Another question is.. DB seems to be very slow. Maybe this is normal, I don't know, but at 200+ bots it starts getting sluggish, I left it on over night and woke up to thousands of simple bots and it was so slow everything was hardly moving. I'm assuming there's no way to make it run faster, but what do other people do? Disable video all the time? Limit the population somehow? Live with the slowness?
My last question is, where should a newbie be looking for help on using DarwinBots? I've been browsing the wiki, and read about the dna and stack, a little bit of the SimpleBot tutorial too. I'm aware of the sysvar reference but haven't really browsed it yet. Is there anything else I should be looking at ?
Anyway.. I hope I can figure out how to do stuff with DB because it seems quite good..it's kind of complicated at first!
Another question is.. DB seems to be very slow. Maybe this is normal, I don't know, but at 200+ bots it starts getting sluggish, I left it on over night and woke up to thousands of simple bots and it was so slow everything was hardly moving. I'm assuming there's no way to make it run faster, but what do other people do? Disable video all the time? Limit the population somehow? Live with the slowness?
My last question is, where should a newbie be looking for help on using DarwinBots? I've been browsing the wiki, and read about the dna and stack, a little bit of the SimpleBot tutorial too. I'm aware of the sysvar reference but haven't really browsed it yet. Is there anything else I should be looking at ?
Anyway.. I hope I can figure out how to do stuff with DB because it seems quite good..it's kind of complicated at first!