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blocking queue in Unity

I want to implement a custom TCP Client in Unity that has separate threads for sending and receiving certain messages. For sending, the Client is supposed to have a blocking queue, that receives ...
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How to capture the state of a collection while allowing other threads to modify it?

I am working on a learning project, a small MMO server. The server "ticks" at a specific interval in order to control the frequency at which information is sent out to the clients, as well as other ...
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Using Threads to create GameObjects

I have this game client which connects to the server and sends requests and getting responses. I have created a separate thread for listening to the server. Based on the response from the server, I ...
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How to await async operations / coroutines?

I'm looking for a generic / reusable way to wait for coroutines and asynchronous operations to finish in Unity 5, similiar to C#5's await keyword. The simplest way I can think of is something like ...
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XNA Access violation from KernelSoundEffectInstance

Some users (but not all) are reporting a periodic crash in my XNA game. They say it's happening every 15 to 20 minutes. I am unable to replicate this myself, so I asked users to send me error logs. ...
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computationally Intensive routine, ThreadPool or new Thread?

I had to write a computationally expensive routine that runs in 20-30ms. This routine cannot run in the main thread since it would kill the frame rate. The routine runs on demand, when some data ...
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Unity3D multi-threaded data importer?

Goal I would like to be able to separate all my data file readers from the main thread and balance the load over multiple frames. The idea being that while the data is being read/parsed/filtered I ...
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Instantiation of a GameObject not working for a threading reason

I receive the following error "INTERNAL_CALL_Internal_InstantiateSingle can only be called from the main thread." "Constructors and field initializers will be executed from the loading thread ...
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Texture Editing with Multi-Threading

So I have this giant Texture2D (4096 * 4096, don't ask why) and all its data stored in an array of Colors. When I hit left MouseButton I create a blue 64 by 64 square at the cursor's position using ...
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Task vs Thread with execution queue [closed]

My game server will have to respond to requests very often, so I consider threading a good option. But should I use Task class from .NET or have several threads that would execute requests which I ...
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Unity - Proper use of threads with procedural generation

I have been working on a simple chunk based terrain generation system, with voxel octrees. The overall method works pretty well, but testing this system with large amounts of chunks completely freezes ...
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Multithreading issues - Frame skips [closed]

So I am trying to multithread a Voxel engine in C# made with Sharpdx and I am having a few issues: This is the class I have : #region using System.Collections.Concurrent; using System.Collections....
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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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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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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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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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How to create a thread in XNA for pathfinding?

I am trying to create a separate thread for my enemy's A* pathfinder which will give me a list of points to get to the player. I have placed the thread in the update method of my enemy. However this ...
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XNA Xbox, utilizing multiple cores [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: XNA: How does threading work? It's my understanding that the Xbox has 3 cores that are available to use. I'm hoping to offload AI to another core, and possibly use another ...
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A* algorithm very slow

I have an programming a RTS game (I use XNA with C#). The pathfinding is working fine, except that when it has a lot of node to search in, there is a lag period of one or two seconds, it happens ...
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C# multi-player socket server (need clarification/suggestions)

I've been working on an 2D-RPG for a while and I recently decided to make it into an MMO (not really massive, but multi-player). Anyways, I'm attempting to write a game server in C#. Yes, I know I ...
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Loading content (meshes, textures, sounds) in the background

In my game, I am aiming for a continuous world, that is, a world where you can go anywhere without breaking the immersion through load times and "virtual seams". My world is broken up into regions, ...
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Xna Loading Screens

I'm making a 2D XNA game. I'd like to implement loading screens when stuff has to load for a while. Like when I login to an account, connect to the server, and generate worlds. I'm pretty sure it ...
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Why does using multithreading during my load screen increase my load times? [closed]

OK, I added a loading screen to my game, and in order for the game able to update and show a loading screen and load stuff in the background I came to the concludsion that I needed to host the loading ...
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RTS Game AI Thread

I have a project to make a real-time strategy game from scratch. I am still at the early planning stage, but I have been programming a little to see the mechanics. I know how to program. I also have ...
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Creating the concept of Time

So I've reached the point in my exploration of gaming where I'd like to implement the concept of time into my little demo I've been building. What are some common methodologies for creating the ...