Too many permanents on the battlefield.

by **Darien Blaque** » 14 Nov 2012, 03:58

So I have been experimenting with different decks and my favorite type of decks are those that like to pump out insane amounts of tokens. When I do this, the program really bogs down. Is this inherent in the program, or is it simply a lack of processing power on my system?
My specs are:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor
Memory(RAM): 8.00 GB 7.2
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 410GB Free (917GB Total)

Thanks in advance.

by **moomarc** » 14 Nov 2012, 12:04

Darien Blaque wrote:So I have been experimenting with different decks and my favorite type of decks are those that like to pump out insane amounts of tokens. When I do this, the program really bogs down. Is this inherent in the program, or is it simply a lack of processing power on my system?
My specs are:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor
Memory(RAM): 8.00 GB 7.2
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 410GB Free (917GB Total)

Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately insane amounts of tokens will bog down any system eventually. Your processing power just determines what constitutes an insane amount (your specs are definitely decent but an extra 8 GB RAM never hurt :twisted:

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Believe me when I say the performance is vastly improved from the first GUI update which tended to leak memory, and then the first conversion to the current GUI which strained the systems and 'encouraged' a lot of code cleanup and memory leak tracking and squashing.

How many tokens do you normally push out before getting noteworthy lag?

by **Darien Blaque** » 14 Nov 2012, 13:11

500+

Edit
Just tried to do 9565. Still bogged down after 6 hours.

by **friarsol** » 14 Nov 2012, 13:23

Are you aware that Duels of the Planeswalkers (a professional, not-free game) has a token limit of 100. I don't think it's unreasonable that the game bogs down when you get up there in permanents on the field. I can't seem to find if MTGO has a limit, or where it starts having issues, but I'd imagine it exists there as well.

by **Darien Blaque** » 14 Nov 2012, 13:27

friarsol wrote:Are you aware that Duels of the Planeswalkers (a professional, not-free game) has a token limit of 100. I don't think it's unreasonable that the game bogs down when you get up there in permanents on the field. I can't seem to find if MTGO has a limit, or where it starts having issues, but I'd imagine it exists there as well.

Please don't think I am criticizing. Not at all. I was just curious if it was my specs or just the nature of the beast.