Multithreading allows multiple threads to exist within the context of a single process sharing same resources but are able to execute independently.
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Multi-Threaded Pipelined Game Engine Data Synchronization Questions
Let's say I'm setting up a worker pool based game engine with pipelining. Let's say I have 4 stages in my pipeline as such:
Stage 1: Physics
Stage 2: AI/Input
Stage 3: Game Logic
Stage 4: Rendering
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Using an Entity System Architecture with Task Based Parallelism
Background
I have been working on creating a multithreaded game engine in my spare time and I currently trying to decide the best way to work an entity sytem into what I have already created. So far, ...
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do games use multiple threads to play music?
Do games use multiple threads to play music and other operations besides things like server connections and sockets?
And is that why when the game freezes (for any reason) the music can sometimes ...
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Efficiently separating Read/Compute/Write steps for concurrent processing of entities in Entity/Component systems
Setup
I have an entity-component architecture where Entities can have a set of attributes (which are pure data with no behavior) and there exist systems that run the entity logic which act on that ...
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Implementations of task-based parallelism in game engines_
I'm looking for implementations of this because I'm having an especially hard time understanding how data is usually handled. As I understand it, simply using critical sections and locking code ...
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AndroidOpenGL drawing loop and passing drawing information
I am using GLSurfaceView for my application's core drawing process.
I do my drawing onDrawFrame ( a function that gets called as often as possible, like thread loop ).
However when touch event ...
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How should I invoke a physics engine?
I'm new to writing games. I'm planning to write a 2D battle game which may require an physics engine. Suppose I've written one, but how can I combine it with the main routine of my game? Should I ...
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Multithreading in lwjgl getting rid of sleep.
I'm trying to use multithreading in my game. However, I can't seem to get rid of the sleep.
If I don't it's a blank screen, as there is no time for the computer to actually render the triangleMob as ...
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What's a good way to distribute delayable tasks between frames to avoid lost frames?
I'm having a problem with finding a good way to keep the framerate high and at the same time keep running methods of game world update. I figured I could just put those methods in a thread so they are ...
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Separating rendering and logic thread in GLFW? [closed]
I want to separate my rendering thread (the main thread) and my logic thread in my GLFW game. I'm new to the concept of threading inside games. How would this be done? GLFW isn't thread safe so it ...
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MVC with looping view
For our school project we'd like to develop a game using the MVC pattern. We're all moderate new java programmers and absolutely new in game development.
With our current view (containing only menu) ...
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Separate renderng thread in Android (OpenGL ES 2.0)
I'm used to mainly working with the Canvas SurfaceView API on Android and have recently been learning openGL ES 2.0
With canvas I know that surfaceView gives you the ability to start a new thread to ...
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DirectX9 thread lock problem with “present” and background loading new textures
Given:
Selfmade 3D engine based on DirectX9 written in C++
Task:
While render loop runs load additional textures in a background thread
Current Implementation:
- Create device with ...
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Displaying animations during loading screens
Games like Karateka (which uses UDK) seem to be able to asynchronously load GL assets as well as display animation.
The splash is incredibly short, then presumably their glView shows up.
I can think ...
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How can I control the frame update rate of a thread?
I'm building a small game for a college project. It's quite a simple game. There are a number of dots on the screen and the player has to select them in a specific order. It's kind of a "join the ...
