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How many lods are you trying to load/generate and also what memory is that? RAM or VRAM?
RAM
How can I check?
Go into dh settings and remember the number that is on the first setting
Oh, 1024
Are you using any other mods?
err
big globe
But I don't think the ram was much better on a vanilla world
Other than that, a bunch of the recommended performance mods, memory optimization mods,
These could actually be an issue so try using dh without these and decrease the lod distance from 1024 to something like 512
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I've spent an hour sitting in the pause menu waiting for the LODs to load, every time I touch a setting, they're gone
Is there a way for LODs to save?
The lods you have already generated will be saved to DistantHorizon.sqlite in your world folder
I just changed it. Now everything is gone.
Restart your game
uhuh
It takes time...
This is the problem though. I was waiting for an hour for all of the chunks to load (was it even all of them?), and now it's gone.
Will I have to be waiting for hours every time I restart my game to get the full dh experience?
If you have lots of lods then it will use a lot of ram and also take a while for all of them to load in. It will not take long for lods to load once they have been generated but it depends on how many threads you have allocated (I think).
Now that you have generated all of the lods it shouldn't take that long for them to load in
wow
Well, 10 minutes in.
God it loads so slowly
Can you check the total progress of chunks loaded?
This is not normal, you are just using dh right?
Yes I believe you can in the f3 menu or smth
Alright what is that, an hour? It's still not done lol
Oh wow, 512^2 = 262144, so it's not even halfway done
It seems that you hadn't actually generated the lods when you had your distance set to 1024
How
I saw what i see now, it was also an hour or so of generation
Get rid of chunky as dh's own generation engine is faster
I thought chunky was a pregenerator, it's always active?
It is a pregenerator but it doesn't generate lods, it generates normal chunks. See here:
/chunky
Using Chunky to pregenerate for DH is not recommended for several reasons. The first one is the swiss cheese that might show up when using chunky while DH is installed. The second reason is that it's pointless, as DH has a build in pregenerator that is better integrated than chunky:
- It saves space by only storing LODs, not normal chunks
- It is faster to use DH's pregenerator to generate the LODs than first using chunky to generate the normal chunks, and then using DH to convert the normal chunks to LODs
- It is part of DH, and therefore always/only called when DH needs it
- Chunky calculates it's radius in blocks, confusing the user if they are not aware of this
Distant Horizons' built-in LOD pregenerator is enabled by default, and can be sped up or slowed down by changing the
Cpu Load in DH's settings, or disabled by turning off Distant Generation.
If you want to pregenerate both LODs and normal chunks, set the Distance Generator Mode to Internal Server under Advanced, World Generator. This will of course take up quite a lot more storage space. Make sure you have C2ME installed if you want to use Internal Server, as the generation speed will be crap if you don't.
Note, this also applied to other similar pregeneration mods.
oh what
Well I knew it only generated chunks, but I thought that would speed up lod generation
No it will slow it down because then your computer is trying to generate a high quality and a low quality version of a chunk
Doesn't it have to do that anyway? You need something from which to decimate into an LOD
My impression was that DH builds LODs from chunks
I dunno how else you could do that, you have to generate something beforehand
Generation and building is different, I can't really explain it that well but dh (I think) generates lods off of the same information as vanilla generates it off of.
Oh so it just saves time by not having to actually create the chunk
ok
Dh generates lower quality versions of chunks: lods
Level Of Detail
@That Guy Okay so 20 minutes since restart, 11k lods have been generated.
What is it like for you?
Probably more, becuase it is not a big globe world
My pc isn't that powerful so I don't generate any where near as many lods as that. Though that does sound pretty normal for a high spec pc
Could I have a screenshot?
So setting the chunk distance to 1024 isn't normal?
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That looks amazing!
Maybe I'm setting it so high because these worlds are so big haha
Not for me but for many others who have powerful pcs they set their lod distance to 1024
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What quality preset are you using?
Having that too high can also lead to high ram usage
Everything is as high as it can be. The ram usage makes sense I guess
yes if you're using the extreme quality preset, or god forbid even pixel art vertical quality, then this is probably expected