Got lots of mods? Got lots of random hitches/frame drops happening at inopportune times? Also have lots of ram in your PC you don't know what to do with?
Then install this mod! It disables Unity's GarbageCollector. Well not entirely because I'm not that insane. :P
Instead it manually controls when GC can run. It will allow it to run during floor loads and while game is paused or if player is afk out of combat for more then 5 minutes.
It otherwise allows for a much smoother game play experience! Do note this will cause the game to use more ram. A machine with 8GB or more of ram is recommended. Though I won't prevent you from using it if you have less, but don't don't complain to me if you get out of memory errors. This game will on average use about 4.5GB of ram during a normal run that reachs the Forge. It can go to 5GB+ if you use specific items that create new rooms and such. But that probably won't happen that often.
I've stress tested this. It should be ok to use as long as you have a decent amount of ram. Oh and definitely don't use this with the 32bit version of the game....For obvious reasons. :P
Credit to https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-disable-the-garbage-collector-on-windows.369015/ where I discovered how to do this for Enter the Gungeon.
Source Code for this mod can be found here:
https://github.com/ApacheThunder/TheGarbageCollector
1.4:
* Fixed mistake that caused game to lag if game was paused for more then 2 minutes.
* Minor adjustments to Stats UI for stats command.
1.3:
* Clean up/optimized GC_Manager code.
* GC monitor will now wait till player is not in combat before doing a collection. (though you'll really only ever see this happen if you have a low memory cap set either manually or from having a small system ram stat that caused it to set a lower value for this)
* Added a couple new console commands:
"garbagecollector setmemcap" and "garbagecollector stats"
* setmemcap command manually sets the max memory usage cap before GC monitor will try to do a collection during gameplay. This is set based on how much memory the user has but can be manually set if so desired.
* stats command allows displaying some stats on memory usage and amount of collections. Uses a custom dfLabel! :D
1.2 :
* Also added new console commands: "garbagecollector stats" and "garbagecollector collect". Collect command forces a manual collection, and stats enables HUDGC a function DodgeRoll made to display GC stats which you can use to track GarbageColletor's activity.
* GarbageColletor mod is now enabled by default. Disabling via console command should still be retained across game restarts too by he way.
1.1 - Add DeVito Sound clip for when command is used. :P
1.0 - Initial Build
Instructions
This mod is on by default when installed. If you want do disable it without uninstalling the mod, you can use this command to turn it on or off:
garbagecollector toggle
To enable debug stats to track GC activity, use this command:
garbagecollector stats
To force GC to do a collection:
garbagecollector collect
To manually set memory cap GC monitor uses to do collections during gameplay:
garbagecollector setmemcap (then the value you want to set it to)
Set it to a value below 1024 to reset it to auto based on your system memory spec. It is not recommended to manually set this but if you have a low mem spec and want to live dangeriously, I won't stop you. :P
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