Static templates import times

[Minsky]

Hi all,

I've created a bunch of templates with several hundred objects in each. They are just the usual static aircraft, vehicles and ships (no mods).

When I'm trying to import them into an empty mission, the import times are unpredictable. Sometimes all templates are importing instantaneously, and sometimes it takes one of them (could be any) up to five minutes to import.

I cannot figure out the pattern, except that if I played with the Mission Editor before starting importing things, the import would almost certainly be slow. Sometimes restarting DCS helps -- sometimes not.

I wonder if anyone else have encountered the same issue.

My master MIZ file (that contains all of the objects) loads in seconds.

MST1-MST4.miz

MST1.stm

MST4.stm

[Rudel_chw]

58 minutes ago, Minsky said:

When I'm trying to import them into an empty mission, the import times are unpredictable. Sometimes all templates are importing instantaneously, and sometimes it takes one of them (could be any) up to five minutes to import.

I cannot figure out the pattern, except that if I played with the Mission Editor before starting importing things, the import would almost certainly be slow. Sometimes restarting DCS helps -- sometimes not.

 

Hello,

Just tried your templates and I can confirm the issue: sometimes your templates load instantly, while other times they take so long that windows interrupts to say that DCS is not responding. Nothing abnormal shows on dcs.log

 

58 minutes ago, Minsky said:

I wonder if anyone else have encountered the same issue.

 

At least with my templates I have seen nothing like that. I recorded a video, will upload and then add it to this thread .. perhaps it can serve to show ED that there is indeed a problem, even if there is no track file nor log error to show.

 

Eduardo

 

PD: here is the video, on it I first load an existing mission, then run it briefly, then return to the editor. I then load one of the few templates that I've yet made for the Marianas Map, which loads quickly. I then load one of your Templates and DCS goes unresponsive .. if I had waited longer perhaps it would have loaded, but once Windows clasifies this as an unresponsive application, I opt to cancel it.

 

 

Edited January 2, 2022 by Rudel_chw

[Minsky]

Thanks for confirming it, especially this part:

9 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

sometimes your templates load instantly, while other times they take so long that windows interrupts to say that DCS is not responding.

I've tried splitting larger templates into smaller chunks, but it's the same song, different verse: instead of freezing on the first or second part, it freezes on fourth or seventh.