Does anyone know what might the average time this full compile might take? It's been sitting at the same spot for the last 5 days and I keep wondering if it's not working or what. It only took 3 days to get up this point and hasn't moved since last Wednesday (5 days ago).

Here's the tail of the log right now:

1894 portalclusters
5303 numportals
6103 numfaces
10606 active portals
visdatasize: 454568
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (37)
7 average number of passages per leaf
50 MB required passage memory
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (114)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9..._ <--blinking cursor

The machine I'm doing this on is an AMD Athlon 1800+ (1.6 G I think?) w/512MB Ram and Windows 2000

Windows Task Mgr:
CPU: 99%
CPU Time: 191:xx:xx
Mem Usage 178,416 K

I figured if it was doing something, the Mem Usage would change, but hasn't at all in the last few days. Also, the HD activity light blinks fast once every 3 seconds...

Am I just being impatient or is it stuck and I should try another machine?

FYI, a quick compile on my machine takes about an hour for this map. On this machine that's doing the full compile, a quick compile will take 4-5 hours. My CPU is a 2100+, which isn't even that much faster than the 1800+. Must be because my machine is running XP Pro?

I've had to wait longer than your waiting on alot higher spec comptuer. And i had more detail brushes than you can shake a big stick at.
Your visdata size is pretty large, you may wanna try and reduce it with more detailed brushes if you can. As its doing that last stage of -vis the mem usage wouldnt change, well it didnt for me anyway, when mine got to this stage.
Depends how long your prepered to wait, really.

I have recently setup another machine soley for compiling, regardless how long it takes. Theres only so much you can do to reduce -visdata size without cutting huge parts of your map away.

E3|Raraavis writes...

'Preciate the response Raraavis!

Yeah, it's got lots of buildings, so I've just about made as many detailed brushes as I can or else I couldn't portal! I think it's going to take awhile because I've got huge mountains made of detailed terrain.

I think terrain takes longer on -vis aswell, although im only going by maps i have made, so it may not be fact. But a HUGE town map i made compiled 3 days quicker than a map of roughly the same size but with lots of terrain.

If you'd like to take a look at it just to see what it looks like, here's the old version.

Be warned, this first version was done with no portaling, lots of pooling/other messes, and was done with a quick compile. This is the same version that has been in rotation for the last several months on my gameserver. Can't wait for the final one to take its place!

http://www.mtasclan.com/cod2/Main/tf.iwd
(20MB)

Yarg.... up to 261 hours and still at the same spot >_<