janisozaur

Re:Refactoring scalar code to SIMD for OpenRCT2 with AI assistant on Friday April 26, 2024 @05:49PM (#40174716)

I used Cody to help me out with a refactor of a hot loop in OpenRCT2 to SIMD. There was a measurable impact, both negative and positive, with dedicated new tests and PR got merged upstream.

Refactoring scalar code to SIMD for OpenRCT2 with AI assistant

Posted by janisozaur on Friday April 26, 2024 @05:47PM
from the sourcegraph.com dept.

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/enhancing-openrct2-performance-a-journey-cody-simd

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Open-source RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 reimplementation added JavaScript plugins

Posted by janisozaur on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:18PM
from the reddit.com dept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rct/comments/g8nq60/openrct2_plugin_support_now_available/

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Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:27PM (#15468131)

If you use gog, there's innoextract for that, so no need for wine or x86 at all.

Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Friday October 13, 2017 @09:11AM (#15465259)

There's innoextract for gog executables

Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:03AM (#15463928)

No, not yet, because of the way data is stored. When we move on to our own save format it will be possible, I'm sure.

Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:01AM (#15463919)

Hi, OpenRCT2 dev here.

FYI: OpenRCT2 has support to consume RCT Classic assets as its base. Also, RCT Classic is available on Steam too (Windows and macOS only, though).

Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:45AM (#15463867)

I have added poor man's scaling in https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/pull/2280 you can also look into the investigation lead in https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/pull/2328

Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:39AM (#15463838)

Hi, OpenRCT2 dev here.

We're gradually moving towards C++, compiling our current C sources as C++ is the first step. Quite surprisingly too, we discovered how shitty a C compiler MSVC is, because just changing the C code of ride drawing to C++ made a huge performance impact there.

Reportedly, GCC also benefited from the switch, but the effect was less pronounced there.

Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:31AM (#15463817)

Hi, OpenRCT2 dev here.

We already kind-of do that, but it is scattered. See https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0YvVAW9aoL0jq8XIDee0... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6IPPi91Xs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJxlCxnmRiU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0HTA79NcIE

These and other useful/current information can be found where most of the community is: on reddit /r/rct and /r/openrct2.