optick VS TABSAT

Does anyone here have experience with Optick: https://github.com/bombomby/optick ? It looks great but I haven't got the chance to try it. Was wondering how it compares to the other tools listed here.

As a free alternative, I've had multiple people recommend Optick, but I haven't had the chance to play around with it yet, so I can't vouch for it myself.

I have used Tracy to improve the performance of a latency sensitive application. The main advantage of this tool, in comparison to something like the Visual Studio profiler, is the fact that it can highlight the inter thread dependencies and synchronization between the threads. The other main feature, in my opinion, is the statistical tab that is associated to the recorded events: it can show the statistical distribution of the duration of all the invocations of functions and it allows to identify patterns in the performance of the application. Furthermore, a table can be used to sort the invocations of the functions and quickly jump to the point in time when the sample was recorded.

Other notable tools that implement a functionality similar to what is provided by Tracy are Optick https://github.com/bombomby/optick and Intel VTune (sadly specific to only Intel processors) in the Threading analysis.

we don't do systematic perf measurements beyond prod metrics but if we did the good tools are uiCA/IACA/etc, tracy/brofiler, perf/vtune

I highly recommend checking out Optick. I use it almost daily at work :)

I've encountered it myself for my own public FOSS programs, even the same Wacatac trojan claimed for a .Net app rather than Python. That time the older version of the public updates-checking library was depreciated into flagging as likely suspect, while the latest fixed it. Defender is dumb in this regard.

I suppose you could try TABSAT https://github.com/DaneelTrevize/TABSAT. I haven’t tried it myself, but supposedly it lets you modify stuff like the number of mutants and giants so you could get rid of them.

If you want to play classic no-Mutants 800%, you can edit a save to remove them via 0% population count scaling, or turn them all into Giants, or move the nearby ones to distant ones.

Do you have any way to access the save file path/contents? A quick googling indicates GFN could be syncing with your Steam Cloud, so your laptop could run a local copy of Steam TAB enough to retrieve the saves when loading the main menu, and then you could use TABSAT to regenerate the check file.

I made TABSAT so that players can extract and modify save files, the manual modification feature should help in this regard.

Latest version available at: https://github.com/DaneelTrevize/TABSAT/releases TABSAT Log: 2023/04/04 14.49.16.311 - You are running the latest released version, TABSAT v1.4.2 2023/04/04 14.49.26.326 - Extracted save file: C:\Users\Baba\Documents\My Games\They Are Billions\Saves\shock.zxsav 2023/04/04 14.49.26.412 - Error while extracting or modifying the save: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array. at TABSAT.SaveReader.generateNavigableData(Int32 res) at TABSAT.SaveReader.getLayerData(MapLayers layer) at TABSAT.SaveReader..ctor(String filesPath) at TABSAT.SaveEditor..ctor(String filesPath) at TABSAT.ModifyManager.getSaveEditor() at TABSAT.ModifyManagerControls.modifyExtractedSave() at TABSAT.ModifyManagerControls.modifySave_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.OnDoWork(DoWorkEventArgs e) at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.WorkerThreadStart(Object argument)

TABSAT automates making copies of your saves and easily restoring them. Just have it enabled and then either depend on the game's schedule of autosaving or exit and resume a game to force a save to be generated, to be copied in the background.

FYI I just released a new version of TABSAT, to help automate TAB saves management.