Weapon Realizer causing massive slowdowns

[endersblade]

I just spent the better part of my Saturday slowly going through my massive list of mods, trying to figure out what was causing my combat to turn into a slide show. Turned out to be Weapon Realizer, which hasn't been updated for 1.5, which is what I assume is the issue. Once I remove that mod, the game runs like butter. Put the mod back in, as soon as I fire, my screen freezes for a good 30 seconds or so, though everything keeps going in the background. I checked the GIT page, still no word on updates, and no mention of this issue happening to anyone else.

 

Just thought I would bring this to the attention of any modders that require this. I think currently the only mod I have that requires it is the WR-CAC part of Dialcaliper's SLDF Royalty mod and another of its dependencies, CustomAmmoCategories.

 

To be more specific: Whenever I begin a mission, the Leopard comes in, my mechs land, then the game freezes for about 5 seconds. Then I go into move phase. As long as there are no enemies onscreen, I can move around in a clean 60 FPS just perfectly fine. Once enemies are detected and come into sensor range, the 'fun' starts. Instantly my FPS drops into the teens. Combat starts, the phase bars show up on the screen, game freezes for another 5 or so seconds. An enemy in sensor range moves, once it stops, game freezes again for 5 seconds or so. My turn, when I move it is a clean 60 FPS, but as soon as the enemy is in view range, it drops to the teens again. I initiate an attack, and it drops into the single digits. Once I fire, the animations happen for a split second, then the image completely freezes for a good 30 seconds or so, while the sounds are on loop in the background. Once it unfreezes, it just repeats everything I've said so far until I decide to kill the game.

 

If I disable WeaponRealizer, edit CustomAmmoCategories and WR-CAC to not require WeaponRealizer, it does bork the game so that I can't actually move (if I try, it sticks my units underground on the opposite side of them map), but eventually the enemies find me. Combat is smooth. Enemy movement is smooth. Everything that was normally freezing before is now smooth.

 

I am doing more testing to see if maybe it's one of the mods requiring WR instead. Will report back.

 

I just tried enabling WeaponRealizer and disabling LC_SLDFRoyal_WR-CAC, which also disables _Encounters and _itemCollections. Mission turned into a slide show again. Definitely seems to be some issue with Weapon Realizer.

 

Btw, I AM deleting my .modtek folder every single time I make any changes, in case someone thinks that's the issue.