Problems with Illyriad?

Ah, yes, free registry and cache cleaners...not unlike a discount colonic irrigation.  Small potential for theoretical performance improvement, substantial potential for quantifiable pain and grief.

Running FF3.6 and no 3rd party junk, the town map has always worked fine for me.  The only caveat is poor performance for the zoomed corner.  That, however, is a coding issue.  Too much work (re-rendering a cropped, multi-image div behind another image with alpha channel) is being done in an onMouseMove event.  The poor CPU can't cope with even slow and steady mouse movement, especially when using a high-resolution mouse--way more frames of "animation" get computed than ever have a chance to actually appear.  I push a CPU core to full usage even moving the mouse at about half a fraction of my normal speed.

The fix for that is to move the heavy lifting out of the onMouseMove event and into a timer (setInterval), set to run at about 20-30fps.  I don't recall if there's a standard cross-browser way to read the current mouse coordinates without an event, but if not that's probably why I've used the onMouseMove event in the past just to update a record for use by such timers.

UPDATE:  I played around with a fix myself, and it appears the computation required to render the zoomed corner is just way too high for smooth animation.  However, using the setInterval method with an interval of about 50ms (20fps), it is a little smoother and way less laggy.  At least without the lag you get to see the building level you want within ~100ms.

We can all be thankful when the browsers get around to supporting hardware document rendering.


Edited by HonoredMule - 16 Apr 2010 at 15:16

Hi Sure,

Seems like you're not the only person with browsing problems after using CCleaner.

Apparently CCleaner can basically "break" browsers if you run CCleaner whilst the browser is open (and people do complain about it breaking multiple browsers at the same time)

However, here's a user who managed to fix it on Firefox.  See this thread, and do let us know if the solution works for you!  The thread (and Firefox version) is pretty old though.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic24790.html

If it doesn't work, I'll continue hunting for a workaround.

Best wishes,

GM Stormcrow


Edited by GM Stormcrow - 15 Apr 2010 at 13:53

After using CCleaner, the whole thing gets worse.I'm pretty sure its this causing problems. Now i can't even click on options tab and more images are being distorted.. wow! This is alarming. I've been using CCleaner w/o much problems for years and this is the first time i've encounter such difficulties with this game. So what should i do? The game controls now are basically crippled for me. Sigh.....

Whoops, my mistake.  I never noticed this was about the town map...even though I repeated the term "town map" myself. /facepalm.

Edited by HonoredMule - 14 Apr 2010 at 15:14

a) The town map does not use Java, or I would not have one.  My machines are cleansed of said pox.

b) The town map is consistently nonfunctional in entirety (can't even get the tile details on the side) when volcanoes on the edge of the map are visible.  Volcanoes throughout the map cause no problems, but this may provide a hint toward the source problem.


Edited by HonoredMule - 14 Apr 2010 at 14:57