Very happy to say it seems to work well now, and if there are remaining problems, they will be much easier for me to debug. I thought I’d be done with this threading thing days ago, and then I started wondering when on earth I’d be done with it at all. I am extremely weary, though, so I’m not going to enumerate all of them. There’s also a bunch of other improvements in here, and various features for DLC3. There were several cases where I was going to do one thing, and chatting with tom on discord let me skip a few steps of pain and jump to a better solution. Special thanks also to tom.prince, who had lots of great ideas and commentary on the threading model and things that we’d have to consider. Daniexpert really gets MVP once again for truly excellent help with bugtesting and reporting in this arena. I’ve been really tearing my hair out, trying to figure out what on earth was going on, and simplifying code, simplifying it further, and lots of experimenting. The game was downright unplayable for the last few weeks in terms of things like stalled threads and a bunch of cross-threading issues. The TLDR is that it’s faster than ever, especially on older computers, and it works REALLY well and is way easier for myself and others to debug, too. This one rips up the entire threading model that we’ve been evolving for the game since 2016, and replaces it with something more modern, as well as fixing a number of threading-related bugs and other issues.

Part 4: 2015-2016, Beyond Reach, Rogue, Raptor – Going 3D.

Part 3: 2013-2014, Shattered, Bionic, Skyward, Last Federation – Peak Arcen.

Part 2: 2011-2012, A Valley Without Wind, etc.