I don't post very often, but definitely feel the need to voice my dislike of these changes.. at least, on paper. Massive changes to the way the smart functionality and the things attached to them seems like a lot of work for what I (and clearly multiple others) don't see as an improvement. It feels ...

I was excited when I saw mention of rewriting some of the network code and hoped it meant we might see a change to a host-based system, rather than the CRC/P2P method.. and was a bit disappointed to see it was just a refactoring of other parts. :( Oh well.. hopefully the quirks with the chosen metho...

May as well delete this thread, I suppose, since it likely won't be of any help to anyone. I feel silly having wasted time with what was essentially a small oversight.

Edit : disregard some of the below. Apparently with only Disable Desktop Composition checked, performance is fine and normal.. evidently I had also checked to run in Windows 7 compatability mode. I might've been trying to force the Desktop Composition to be disabled by doing that, which also didn't...

I have an i7-2600k @ 4.5ghz, so the CPU isn't the issue. I dunno what is causing it, then.. since I can hop back and forth between two separate installs and 0.9.8 is a matter of seconds, and 0.10.0 is a matter of "any day, now". I suppose that I can try to play around with affinity setting...

I personally run two SSD in Raid-0 and my New Map creation in 0.9.8 took a matter of seconds, and if it was a Sandbox mode, I could zoom around the map and chunks loaded instantly.. however, now in 0.10.0, New Map creation takes a solid 15-30 seconds, and in Sandbox, I can quickly bog down the game ...