SCS General Discussion Thread

[Some newbie driver]

Perhaps something was changed at its core?

There's no point into change AI core routines because they have no room to improve until SCS could leverage way more CPU for them.

What they had do for sure, more than once in past times, is to touch some parameters. I guess values about the distance in where the AI considers other vehicle is too close to don't merge. 1.39 had a big change respect to that for sure. They probably keep touching values of that kind testing. And of course, any of that kind of changes is going to cause havoc with high density traffic mods.

If you add to this the usual amount of bugs in prefabs on a new DLC, where yield zones aren't well defined; the cocktail is explosive.

[abasstreppas]

Been into ETS2 since december 2012, but I still have no clue what this means in the log

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<WARNING> Startup watch dog triggered!

[plykkegaard]

I would call it interesting rather than explosive
The AI can be delt with

[mackintosh]

The easiest way to deal with it is by setting it to 0, which I have found myself doing rather often lately.

[plykkegaard]

Nahh just outsmart it, it is very predictable not like a human driver

[Braakie]

Been into ETS2 since december 2012, but I still have no clue what this means in the log

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<WARNING> Startup watch dog triggered!

Here the answer

[mackintosh]

@plykkegaard You can't outsmart it if it causes a pileup blocking an exit. All you can do then is to disable it. I used to get this problem only with traffic mods, but it's started happening in vanilla, too.

[Some newbie driver]

Been into ETS2 since december 2012, but I still have no clue what this means in the log

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<WARNING> Startup watch dog triggered!

A watchdog timer is a safeguard put in the code to avoid deadlocks. It's started let's say to 100 cycles, and it starts to countdown immediately and independently of the rest of the code. If it arrives to 0, he forces some kind of "reset" into the main code of the program. If the program runs correctly, it will restart the watchdog to 100 periodically so nothing happens. But if some unwanted situation cause the code to get blocked, the watchdog timer will reach 0 and do its job to try to recover the control.

Regards

[abasstreppas]

@Some newbie driver Thanks, mate, for an extraordinary explanation. Now I can sleep better

[Marcello Julio]

I will admit that this information I didn't know too Thanks for the explanation @Some newbie driver!