FS.E652 091, on 14 December 2020 - 05:08 PM, said:
... as for the watchdog instead, I would like to understand more, the route in question is personal for now as some details are missing before being able to publish it ..
and in addition to this I have another quite large scenario in the landscape project ... I would like to understand if by deactivating it, I run risks related to crashes or maybe I improve game stability ..!
I also add, that in that situation, the weather conditions were of the rainy type with bounding box settings higher than the standard values, it may be that the problem was also given by that ... because playing the activity in clear sky conditions, therefore without rain and with default bounding box values, no crash or blocking occurred.
As for the rest, if you download Rev.83, is it as stable as 54?
The watchdog has been created to intercept OR stalls, that is infinite loops or similar. This interception occurs in a quite brutal way, that is aborting the execution of OR and returning to the menu. I have disabled the watchdog, because I almost never experienced stalls, and didn't experience any one in the last couple of years, while, when I had the watchdog running, I experienced quite many unneeded returns to menu due to its intervention, also because I have a slow computer. So, in my opinion, the watchdog would like to intercept a very rare problem, while instead aborting OR in many cases where this is not necessary.
A large rain bounding box is likely to increase CPU load.
And, referring to your last question, for sure rev. 83 has more bug fixes than rev. 54, and therefore should be at least equally stable.