vastly underestimed times for xlodgen, texgen, etc?

[doug4130]

So my system is pretty modern (ryzen 5700x, m.2 drive etc) yet these ETAs are nowhere near what they realistically take.  LODgen, with an ETA of 20 minutes, took over 1 hour and 45 minutes.  TexGen with an ETA of 5 minutes is at 35 minutes and counting.

 

all good if this is to be expected, but is something going on here?

[DoubleYou]

This can vary widely across different versions and hardware, as the tools are still in active development. As long as it is still working, I wouldn't worry about it. 

[doug4130]

how long would you go before you'd consider it not working?  I've been stuck here

 

[34:16]     Creating D:\Modding\Tools\DynDOLOD\TexGen_Output\textures\dlc02\lod\volcanic_ash_tundra_04lod.dds from 4 textures

 

for about 10 mins or so

[z929669]

2 hours ago, doug4130 said:

So my system is pretty modern (ryzen 5700x, m.2 drive etc) yet these ETAs are nowhere near what they realistically take.  LODgen, with an ETA of 20 minutes, took over 1 hour and 45 minutes.  TexGen with an ETA of 5 minutes is at 35 minutes and counting.

 

all good if this is to be expected, but is something going on here?

Tip for AMD users: Kill AMD* named processes via TaskManager prior to any LODGen process:

One or more of these processes can significantly increase generation time, and it's not yet clear how/why. This is probably related to Texconv used in may of the LODGen processes and mediation of said processes by the AMD processes. I think it's due to AMD interpreting the LODGen processes as similarly to in-game routines like texture/redering optimization. Some combined versions of DynDOLOD and AMD software cause this problem while others do not, so I always just disable these. Generation time is on the order of 5-10 faster by doing so, and only the AMD drivers are needed anyway. A reboot will restore them for gameplay, but they aren't even needed for that (at least not for Bethesda games).

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Added a similar note to the guide.

[doug4130]

what the hell, after doing that it finished in seconds