Suggestion: do not automatically check for plugin update when playing

[AmazingBeu]

to prevent frame drop when playing, i suggest to not do the plugin update check and notifications when the player is playing. It could be easily detected by just looking if a playground is active, or a bit harder, when the player is not spawned

[Fort-TM]

+1 on this, I have thought about it before but I assumed I was the only one wanting such feature. I think it's mostly an issue in rounds or COTD quali.

[codecat]

Is this really a problem, though? How much does this actually impact in 1 frame?

[Fort-TM]

I can't really give an accurate number, but I have had some frame drops in the past due to it (hard to know the root cause, but I remembering getting them when I got the notifications. Nothing major though). It can also just be distracting to suddenly get 3+ notifications while driving, and I'm someone who always updates his plugins 😅

I understand if this is not something wanted to be added though, but I think the distraction factor is also worth considering.

[codecat]

I think it might be worth more to investigate why the frame drop happens and improve that instead. It shouldn't be causing a lockup so bad that it's noticeable. How many plugins do you have installed?

[Fort-TM]

59

of these, some are disabled or don't have site IDs (like my test plugins), so 45-50 would be a more accurate number.

[codecat]

Thanks, I'll do some testing and see what I can come up with.

[AmazingBeu]

for example, the first manual check update can takes more than 40ms for 43 active plugins according the plugin profiler.
The other manual checks takes less than 1ms. I don't know why the first one is longer, maybe it has to build a cache or a list, or it could be related to the network stack, good luck to find the issue 😅
And I know manual check is not perfect but it can give you an idea