In-game file downloader sucks ass
Needing to send files at all, from my experience, cripples the server's ability to run game logic, and this lags all of the connected players. It does not matter how small the file is, how low the `downloadspeed` is, or how low the `maxsend` is -- changing these things just determines how long the server has to cope. Even sending a tiny file will preform terribly for a split second.
Fixing this would be nice, but regardless of if a fix for this happens or not: I don't think I've ever seen any game do game-to-game file transfers at an acceptable speed vs bandwidth. Port SRB2Kart's HTTP downloader, we have literally already fixed this like over 2 years ago wtf.
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Apologies for being a bit dumb here, but what's the difference between what we have and kart's HTTP downloader?
I also used to experience this issue back before I switched to fiber internet, so I 100% know the pain. After I got fiber though, I guess my internet just became strong enough to take the hit.
The biggest difference between what we have and kart's HTTP Downloader is faster addon downloading/server joining. As clients downloads files from a web server instead of the game server having to send files to multiple clients at once
Which also means less lag for all of the connected players as the game server will have plenty of free headroom/resources to do game logic stuff.
Sometimes I feel Kart's HTTP Downloader much more slower than the In-Game Downloader honestly. I think it would better to do the entire HTTP Downloader from scratch rather than porting it and calling it a day.
Aslo hosting a web server is kinda expensive on some countries which they couldn't rely on HTTP due to economy, perhaps while making the HTTP Downloader maybe find a way to "enchance" the In-Game Downloader to not bring the server's performance to it's knees.
That would be a win to win for both case scenarios on my opinion.
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Sorry for the late response. On my experience, there are cases where downloading a single file takes way to long to finish even if the file is just 200kb (for example) as is also has some struggles where it stops downloading and then resumes randomly which is something that the in-game downloader doesn't normally do unless the server's bandwith is just not good. It also there are cases where it struggles to start downloading a file too.
My ISP is not really good tho, but I know that sometimes the HTTP downloader is struggling even if the web server that the game server uses has good bandwith and my ISP is also in it's good moments. It makes me to manually go to the web server with my browser and download the missing files manually into the game which is painfull.
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