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I used the command line version of msbuild to compile the latest masters I downloaded as zip files from GitHub. Compiled successfully with a few warnings. Trying to figure out why the executable compiles as "pioneer-debug" as I'm assuming that it running in 'debug mode' is causing performance issues. I searched the forum before creating this topic and only found one relevant comment to what i'm talking about and it was from 2015 -

Re: Pioneer Performance
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Post by nick » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:41 pm

Any luck with the optimisations? (the version I'm working on for the JSON save/load runs at 3 frames per second).
The game also takes about 15 minutes to start (spends ages at "evolution of the universe: 8.2 billion years") - not sure if this is due to running in 'debug' mode?

What he's saying about spending ages at 8.2 billion years, I also spent 'ages' there, relatively anyway compared to when i load up the precompiled october 2017 version. I imagine the 5 seconds I had to wait versus his ages is simply the difference in hardware over the last 3 years. This comment along with the 'debug mode' part made me think we were experiencing the same issue. Love this game, appreciate any help in advance.

Welcome to the forum!

1. check COMPILING.txt and make sure you've pre-built the 3D models, that will speed up start up time a lot

2. I can't answer windows specific questions, but I've heard that when building debug in MS Visual Studio it is very slow indeed.

I've never built using msbuild but yes it appears to be doing a debug build.

A quick bit of Goolging shows that you probably want the command line to be something like:

MSBuild yourproject.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64

So that it will do a 64-bit Release build.

Or just use the free (Community) version of VS2017

impaktor wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 7:29 am Welcome to the forum!

1. check COMPILING.txt and make sure you've pre-built the 3D models, that will speed up start up time a lot

2. I can't answer windows specific questions, but I've heard that when building debug in MS Visual Studio it is very slow indeed.

Thank you, :). As Fluffy has replied, I was stating the performance of the game actually running post compile. The compile was actually pretty fast.

FluffyFreak wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:15 am I've never built using msbuild but yes it appears to be doing a debug build.

A quick bit of Goolging shows that you probably want the command line to be something like:

MSBuild yourproject.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64

So that it will do a 64-bit Release build.

Or just use the free (Community) version of VS2017

Thanks for the prompt reply :) I didnt even think to check to see if it was an issue with my command with msbuild lol. I was busy searching for pioneer keywords. Thanks a bunch.