Optimization

[L. Spooner Inc]

Just wanted to leave a thanks and congratulations to the developers of the TTD engine. I have an older system (first-gen i7, ten years old now), but OpenTTD runs smooth as butter. I've tried to see how far I could push it by having thousands of vehicles operating simultaneously and zooming right out so they're all on screen, and my system temps don't even budge. This despite a lot of older games pegging out my quad cores because of poor optimization and "push it till it moves" design philosophy.

[jfs]

I wonder how fast TTD for Windows, with TTDPatch and the GameSpeed patch for unlocked speed, can run on a modern system

[LaChupacabra]

I wonder how fast TTD for Windows, with TTDPatch and the GameSpeed patch for unlocked speed, can run on a modern system

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Answer: Fast, even Very fast
Sometimes so fast that this speed can be a problem.

Interestingly, the game on an old and already weak computer with small maps works faster than on a much stronger new one. Its x165.3 (year in 5.1s) for old, and x86.9 (year in 9.7s) for new one.
However, the result changes dramatically as the game load increases. Where the old has barely x1.0, the new still has something around x3.0 - x4.0