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The posted instructions for getting past the ad.fly survey only worked for me every once in a while... well, more like twice out of like 30 tries or so.

What did work for me was the following.

1. Click link
2. Wait for redirect
3. Click back
4. Wait for countdown to start in top right corner
5. Immediately click stop before the rest of the page has loaded
6. Wait for the 5 second countdown
7. Click skip add

I doubt steps 2 and 3 are even necessary. The key seems to be to let the timer load, but stop the page loading before the redirect kicks in. Whenever I would stop it and then reload the page as suggested it would simply redirect again nearly every time.

I cant use the Adv OpenGL feature, is it because the cv.class from Modloader overwrites the one from Optimine + Optifog?

For the brave souls around,
OptiFog Experimental with Background Chunk Loading (1.7.3)
is available here: Download 1, Download 2

Warning: Highy Experimental

Yes, it can show anomalies like missing chunks or flashing regions.
Yes, it can crash at any time or freeze your PC.
Yes, it can corrupt your world and delete parts of it.

But, the framerate should be stable without big spikes and the gameplay should be fluid.
No more horrible lag on sunrise or when moving around.
Even with lower FPS and a lot of chunks loading the game should be playable.
And on multi-core CPU-s the chunk loading should practically not affect the FPS.

Use it on a new world, on your own risk.
When testing keep in mind that while standing still it will try to load 3x more chunks per frame.

Edit: Does not work on multi-core CPUs. Version 3 coming shortly.

Standard OptiFog HD_B:



OptiFog HD_B with Background Chunk Loading:

could you please add compatibility with dynamic lights ??

Tested the experimental on laptop with i5(2 physical cores but mc can only use 25% cause hyperthreading) and ati 5730m 1gig vram an 4gig regular ram.

Minecraft finally used more then 25% of my cpu!@!@!!

However, I have huge amount of problems with it, for one it will only show around 4 or so chunks right around me, and no matter how much I go farther it wont seem to show anymore, and basically anything beyond the very center is simply invisible, I can see all the mobs through the ground and etc.

EDIT: Also I changed pretty much every setting I could find in options and nothing seemed to make much of an impact.


Heres a example pic of a freshly generated world

Same results as toastt here. No crashing or instability, but very few chunks visible. Java 7 b147, Catalyst 11.4, Ati 5770, Intel C2D Conroe, Win7 x64.

Really excited for this, thanks for all the hard work.

is there a way you could change the speed the chunks generate to make it faster even while moving just like in earlier releases of minecraft

Quote from sp614x

Quote from sp614x

I do not recommend patching OptiFog with MCPatcher.
And the BetterGrass fix is on the way.

If I only use the packing-feature of MCPatcher (no HD textures, HD fonts, etc.), then is that still an issue? Doesn't it then just extract all the mods into the minecraft.jar like I would do manually?
This should be OK as long as the OptiFog classes are not overwritten.

Ah ok, thanks for the info, appreciate it. :smile.gif:

Quote from mannon

The posted instructions for getting past the ad.fly survey only worked for me every once in a while... well, more like twice out of like 30 tries or so.

What did work for me was the following.

1. Click link
2. Wait for redirect
3. Click back
4. Wait for countdown to start in top right corner
5. Immediately click stop before the rest of the page has loaded
6. Wait for the 5 second countdown
7. Click skip add

I doubt steps 2 and 3 are even necessary. The key seems to be to let the timer load, but stop the page loading before the redirect kicks in. Whenever I would stop it and then reload the page as suggested it would simply redirect again nearly every time.

With the Firefox Addon "AdBlock Plus" I never had any problems with Ad.Fly.
The only thing I ever see with it is this: Waiting for download
And then this: Ready to download

Quote from oneupe1even

I cant use the Adv OpenGL feature, is it because the cv.class from Modloader overwrites the one from Optimine + Optifog?

You have to load Modloader before Optifog/-mine

Quote from sp614x

For the brave souls around,
OptiFog Experimental with Background Chunk Loading (1.7.3)
is available here: Download 1, Download 2

Warning: Highy Experimental

Yes, it can show anomalies like missing chunks or flashing regions.
Yes, it can crash at any time or freeze your PC.
Yes, it can corrupt your world and delete parts of it.

But, the framerate should be stable without big spikes and the gameplay should be fluid.
No more horrible lag on sunrise or when moving around.
Even with lower FPS and a lot of chunks loading the game should be playable.
And on multi-core CPU-s the chunk loading should practically not affect the FPS.

Use it on a new world, on your own risk.
When testing keep in mind that while standing still it will try to load 3x more chunks per frame.

Please test and report back.
If it crashes, post back the error stack trace.

Standard OptiFog HD_B:



OptiFog HD_B with Background Chunk Loading:

I assume it will work on MP?

Quote from toastt

Tested the experimental on laptop with i5(2 physical cores but mc can only use 25% cause hyperthreading) and ati 5730m 1gig vram an 4gig regular ram.
Minecraft finally used more then 25% of my cpu!@!@!!
However, I have huge amount of problems with it, for one it will only show around 4 or so chunks right around me, and no matter how much I go farther it wont seem to show anymore, and basically anything beyond the very center is simply invisible, I can see all the mobs through the ground and etc.

Thanks for the info.
On a single-core CPU it runs fine, everything renders correct.
Looks like I will have to find a multi-core PC for testing.

How to turn off autosave? when i see mysterius "Saving chunks" my minecraft run out memory and next i can't play on this world :/

OptiFog Experimental Background Chunk Loading v2:
Download 1, Download 2

This should probably work better on multicore CPU-s.
Use on a fresh minecraft.jar and a new world.
Highly experimental, may crash or do other nasty things.

Edit: Does not work on multi-core CPUs. Version 3 coming shortly.

Quote from DiRasta

is there a way you could change the speed the chunks generate to make it faster even while moving just like in earlier releases of minecraft

Currently not, but will be added in a next version.

Quote from donkeymuel

Tested the experimental V2 same results as last time it crashes when I try to change the brightness or smooth lighting and it crashes when it gets to the "Saving Chunks" bit of loading up a world

Can you post the error message or the java stack trace?

Hooray !!!
I get about 30 fps after having installed this : the twice i got before !
Excellent work man :smile.gif:
I don't need to upgrade my computer to play minecraft in good conditions.
Oh i have some mods installed like mo' creatures which is an fps eater for my machine.
Thank you !
And another thank you : Better grass works hooray !!!
One word : AWESOME !!!
Did i said thank you ?

I just tested the experimental release, and it appears that only one small chunk loads at a time, and the rest is invisible. Looking at the command window, I'm seeing this error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Already tesselating!
at nw.a(Tessellator.java:221)
at nw.b(Tessellator.java:208)
at nw.b(Tessellator.java:205)
at bw.a(SourceFile:241)
at dk.a(WorldRenderer.java:100)
at UpdateThread.run(UpdateThread.java:182)

I'm not sure what it means, but maybe it'll be of some help for you.

LOV THIS MOD THANKS ALOT!!!!!

is there goin to be a sperate version of optifog for 1.7.3

Strange, for some reason i am stuck at the done loading screen after installing. Any ideas as to why? I've already done it three times, but to no avail.

Quote from utwahoo

I just tested the experimental release, and it appears that only one small chunk loads at a time, and the rest is invisible. Looking at the command window, I'm seeing this error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Already tesselating!
at nw.a(Tessellator.java:221)
at nw.b(Tessellator.java:208)
at nw.b(Tessellator.java:205)
at bw.a(SourceFile:241)
at dk.a(WorldRenderer.java:100)
at UpdateThread.run(UpdateThread.java:182)

Thanks for the error. It helps a lot.