Max amount of props a area should have?

**Shev** · 01-20-2011, 05:00 PM

I mean, when is it kinda pushing the max amount?

I'm making a area that kinda has to be big, and I'm trying to detail it pretty well too, however I was wondering how many props could I get in before the game would start lagging on most computers.

**Frontcannon** · 01-20-2011, 05:18 PM

The game has never lagged for me even when I tested it out with some nifty timer functions that spawned A LOT of skulls, but I have a QuadCore so I don't know how representative that is.

Be careful with lights or shadow casters though. Those rely heavily on your graphicscard and thus are more prone to lags.

**Vradcly** · 01-20-2011, 11:10 PM

I noticed that Decals make the map slower to load and work with (but not ingame), really fast. Filled up a corridor with blood and the map went from 500kb to 2mb...

**Seragath** · 01-21-2011, 02:53 PM

(01-20-2011, 11:10 PM)Vradcly Wrote: I noticed that Decals make the map slower to load and work with (but not ingame), really fast. Filled up a corridor with blood and the map went from 500kb to 2mb...

That explains why my friggen map flew up to 12mb all of a sudden! Sad

**Tanshaydar** · 01-21-2011, 02:59 PM

MapView says my map fetches 100+ MB memory. Is that normal?