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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How can I access LWJGL's Keyboard from a thread other than the graphics thread?
I'm loving LWJGL, but have been running into a number of odd problems with it. Most of it seems to deal with the fact that OpenGL is a state-machine and was only ever meant to be accessed from a ...
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XNA problem: models processed with different content projects reference the same effect file
I want to add multiple content projects to my XNA Game solution in order to compile them with multiple cores in parallel. The compilation time is a problem for us already and in the future things will ...
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Application of classes with critical non-static fields in LWJGL
I'm going to be as specific about this question as I can. Ultimately, how is it that I apply a class that uses non-static fields in LWJGL?
More specifically, I know that OpenGL is quite nearly more a ...
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Will a waiting thread still eat up cpu time? [migrated]
I'm trying to make a thread pool for a game engine and I've been considering how my system should react to third party libraries spawning their own threads.
From what I've read, it is ideal to only ...
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Scalability of multi-threading in game server
What is a reasonable number of threads for a simple 2D mmo in Java? Is it reasonable to have two threads per connection, one for the input stream and one for the output stream?
The reason I ask is ...
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Multithreading 2D gravity calculations
I'm building a space exploration game and I've currently started working on gravity ( In C# with XNA).
The gravity still needs tweaking, but before I can do that, I need to address some performance ...
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StringBuffer behavior in LWJGL
Okay, I've been programming in Java for about ten years, but am entirely new to LWJGL. I have a specific problem whilst attempting to create a text console. I have built a class meant to abstract ...
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How should I implement multiple threads in a game? [duplicate]
So I recently started learning Java, and having a interest in playing games as well as developing them, naturally I want to create game in Java.
I have experience with games in C# and C++ but all of ...
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UDP non blocking or a seperate thread for receiving
I am creating a multiplayer game (for under 64 player). I already decided to have a seperate thread for the network loop, but I was wondering if it would be better to create an extra thread for ...
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Creating a voxel world with 3D arrays using threads
I am making a voxel game (a bit like Minecraft) in C++(11), and I've come across an issue with creating a world efficiently.
In my program, I have a World class, which holds a 3D array of Region ...
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Multi Threading - How to split the tasks [duplicate]
if I have a game engine with the basic 'game engine' components, what is the best way to 'split' the tasks with a multi-threaded approach?
Assuming I have the standard components of:
Rendering
...
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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 ...
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WinAPI SwapBuffers and Threads
I'm trying to use a different Thread for the whole WinAPI-Message-Loop stuff, so the window always keeps being responsive. Of course I'm using the main thread as the "window thread", because I need a ...
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What operations should be multithreaded?
I wonder what game operations should be multithreaded, and which should always run on the main thread.
The most expensive operations I could come up with are:
loading a level
loading resources (for ...
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How wise is this multithreading architecture?
I'm rewriting a game engine I wrote in an attempt to parallelize as much as possible. I'm considering making properties which may be accessed from multiple threads all use accessors which use boost ...
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Mixing threads and coroutines in Unity3D Mobile
I had a coroutine in Unity3D that downloaded a zip from a server, extracted it to the persistent data path, and loaded its contents into memory. The flow looked something like this:
IEnumerator ...
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1answer
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Receiving server data inside game loop
I'm planning on how my multiplayer game client game loop should work. While I'm convinced that server should be moved from game loop into it's own thread, I'm not sure what should I do about receiving ...
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Implementing multithreaded loading screens
Ok, I have fairly little multi-threading experience, but i have done a similar thing before without issue...but this has me stumped.
This is in C++, Directx9 Visual Studio...
My game basically runs ...
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Can threads be used to run resource consuming methods without -ever- freezing UI?
Until recently I was sure that running expensive operations in threads can prevent UI freezing, but now I'm not.
Is it not guaranteed that a threaded operation will not hog the main thread's ...
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Expensive operations and threading in XNA games
There's this post, it's highest voted answer got me curious about the many ways of threading games.
My game has input update, game logic update, user interface update and expensive operations ...
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SpriteBatch.end() Issue because of a thread
While playing, I use a thread to Load() and Unload() Texture2D.
I have multiple ContentManager to only Unload() Texture2D I want to unload.
But sometimes, I have this issue on the SpriteBatch.End() : ...
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Multiple pipelined game loops
I am considering using the following game engine design pattern, but I am unsure if it's a good idea or not:
Each major task (drawing, physics, logic, networking, disk I/O) will have its own ...
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Unity editor stalling on second attempt to play
I am attempting to use a Tobii TX300 eye-tracker as an input device for Unity. This device is connected via LAN (TCP connection managed by Tobii SDK). The Tobii SDK has appropriate methods (I am ...
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Code structure in Android 2D game
Well I've finnaly decided to start Android game dev, and my first project will be simple 2d canvas based game.
I have some experience in game developing with C# and XNA, and I'm a bit confused now.
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How do I use threads together with DirectX11?
I have only found the documents on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff476884(v=vs.85).aspx Although it doesn't say anything about creating them, it mentions that device is ...
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Splitting logic into threads in Java tower defence game
I'm making a tower defence game in Java!
It's my first game development.
I want to know how many threads Do I need to create in a game, to split logic..
I've made this one:
Main App thread (adds ...
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Efficiency concerning thread granularity
Lately, I've been thinking of ways to use multithreading to improve the speed of different parts of a game engine. What confuses me is the appropriate granularity of threads, especially when dealing ...
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Multithreading for a mixed-genre game in Python?
So here's the situation. I'm making a game that mixes two genres; arcade shooter and puzzler. They don't intertwine TOO much; all the interaction that really goes on is that every time an enemy is ...
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Threads slowing down application and not working properly
I'm making a software renderer which does per-polygon rasterization using a floating point digital differential analyzer algorithm. My idea was to create two threads for rasterization and have them ...
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Separate update and render
I'm programming a simple Snake in Java. I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Java and Game Developing, so please bear with me ;)
Until now, I have been using a UI thread, as well as a ...
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Does using [STAThread] with XNA have any negative implications?
I'm working on a game in XNA, which has an inbuilt level editor. To facilitate this I want use the FileOpenDialog from Winforms. I followed the instructions as per this answer. This involves setting ...
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Does concurrency inherently introduce “randomness” into a game?
When a game is implemented with concurrency (as most games are), does this necessarily, by its very nature, introduce an element of randomness into the game that is outside of the players' control?
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GLES2.0 3D Android game performance and multi threading the update?
I have profiled my mixed Java\C++ Android game and I got the following result:
As you can see, the pink think is a C++ functions that updates the game. It does things like updating the logic but it ...
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Do games use threads?
I 'understand' that the concept of how a game runs i.e
while (game_loop = true)
{
//handle events
// input/output/sound etc
}
But it has come to my attention while programming in another ...
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multi-thread in mmorpg server
For MMORPG, there is a tick function to update every object's state in a map. The function was triggered by a timer in fixed interval. So each map's update can be dispatch to different thread. At ...
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Is it safe to run multiple XNA ContentManager instances on multiple threads?
My XNA project currently uses one ContentManager instance, and one dedicated background thread for loading all content.
I wonder, would it be safe to have multiple ContentManager instances, each in ...
