Speed up time?

[mikael-anttila-eriksson]

Is there a way to speed up the simulation? Nothing happens when I press the "Full Speed" button in the Time control box.

[johnBuffer]

the speed up simply removes de framerate cap so there are two possibilities:

• your pc is at max capacity already
• the button is not working

what happens if you use Full Speed with just a few ants? does it works in this case?

[mikael-anttila-eriksson]

I´m using the AntSimulator-Editor. I reduced the ants to 1000 in conf-file, which seems to be the lowest possible. My CPU is about 40% and no real change when I press the button. I also tryed 4.1 version, and same/similar result there.
I don´t know if I can do any other change then that.

[johnBuffer]

You are not the only one mentionning this issue, maybe there is something else. Do you have multiple monitors connected at the same time?

[mikael-anttila-eriksson]

Ok. No other monitor. I am using a (gaming) laptop.

[Nya0]

same issue here using a laptop and the program only taking 40% of CPU and button doesn't work

[johnBuffer]

Do you know how to compile it? Since I cannot reproduce the issue (neither on my Windows or Mac machines) I would like to create a branch to push potentiel fixes and let you give me feedback.

[mikael-anttila-eriksson]

Do you mean the source code? Because I´m just opening the AntSim program. For that I would have to install c++ first i guess. Which i could possibly do in june when I have time.

[StevenJAckerman]

I have the AntSimulator 4.1 source installed, compiled under VS2K19. The Full Speed button only works for me in Release build.

[johnBuffer]

Thanks for your feedback. That's probably because without release optimizations the program is already at max speed even when the toggle is disabled.

[vrishankvennapusa]

My full speed button is not working either. Which file is the time sped up in?