Grid Graph with 700 agents using 30% CPU extra

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#1

Hi there,

I have been doing some tests on my servers and I have found that 700 AILerp agents (monsters) cost me about 30% CPU usage.

My game is 2D top down and I have the pro version.

Here is the htop screenshot from before disabling AILerp (around 76% CPU usage)

before
before833×467 259 KB

And here is the same build but disabling AILerp component on the Enemy prefab

after
after816×365 255 KB

Here are the Seeker + AILerp configs

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Here is my A* config

Is there anything else I can do to greatly decrease CPU usage? I dont want to spend 30h tweaking things to get 1% back, but maybe there are some simple/quick things I can do to get some of that CPU juice back.

Thanks.

#2

Have you taken a look here:
https://arongranberg.com/astar/docs/optimization.html

#3

Yes, all of that has been taken into account which is why I upgraded from free to pro version (in order to be able to use multithreading)

#4

Hi

Instead of htop I would suggest using the Unity profiler to more accurately be able to determine what is using the CPU power in your game.

#5

Here is the profiler screenshot with around 200 monsters roaming.

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A bit more detailed

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#6

Hi

It looks like you have some spikes when all agents try to recalculate their paths at the same time. You could avoid this by either:

  1. Spawn the agents not at the same time, but delay each agent by a random amount (up to a second or so)
  2. Tweak the AILerp.repathRate field a tiny bit (e.g. multiply by a random value between 0.95 and 1.05) for each agent. This will quickly break up the pattern and smooth out the framerate.
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