I've been trying to figure out why the main menu performance on Warcraft 3 Reforged is so bad.
It ends up the whole main menu is a web app running on Chrome. This thing runs worse than the actual game (likely because it's pegging an entire core of my CPU.)
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Btw: The game itself, 25% CPU. The main menu? 150%.
The main menu is more expensive than the actual game.
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My hint was someone on Reddit taking about injecting JavaScript to find hidden menu options and I was like “that can’t be right...”
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how did they make it eat that much CPU time, is it on uncapped framerate or something worse?
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What on earth even possessed Blizzard to *remake the entire main menu in Electron?!*
I wonder if they did it because it was the easiest way to shove a whole bunch of telemetry and analytics libraries in there. I'd love to see what a Wireshark capture of this would look like...
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Many AAA games use web tech for menus nowadays. EA in games like Battlefield one & 5 for example use a fork of react native that renders to the frostbite engine, ubisoft does something similar. Their menus work fine. it's on blizzard that this menu costs so much performance.
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modern appdev is a mistake, cross-platform applications are as simple as running a chrome instance and pretending you're a webpage now
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Did you read the original post? Blizzard literally did what you suggest (running a chrome instance and pretending to be a webpage) and the performance is awful. Not really a glowing recommendation for that model
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