Way to Speed Up Simulator?

[grossmanlev]

Hello,

I am looking to do some RL training on an agent. However, the simulator is currently pretty slow, especially to do something like Q-Learning. Is there a way to speed up the simulator/make the graphical agent now show (if that's the slow-down)?

EDIT: Headless doesn't seem to make it go any faster. Also, for reference, I am using attacker npcs -- is this the cause of the slowness? As npcs on their own are also as slow as my learning agent.

Thanks!

[mhauskn]

The ways to speedup the code: 1) Make sure you're building with "cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelwithDebInfo" or "Release". 2) Disable sync mode (add flag --no-sync) 3) Disable Soccerwindow (add flag --headless)

It should run at several hundred FPS, depending on the number of players you have activated.

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Hello,

I am looking to do some RL training on an agent. However, the simulator is currently pretty slow, especially to do something like Q-Learning. Is there a way to speed up the simulator/make the graphical agent now show (if that's the slow-down)?

Thanks!

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[grossmanlev]

Well, I have built with "RelwithDebInfo," and I am running the following command:

./bin/HFO --defense-npcs=2 --offense-npcs=2 --no-sync --fullstate --headless

However, it takes about 4 seconds per every 100 frames or so.

Does this command run for you at several hundred FPS? If so, any ideas what I could have done wrong in the setup?

Thanks!

[mhauskn]

Sorry, you'll want to remove the --no-sync flag and it should go much faster.

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Well, I have build with "RelwithDebInfo," and I am running the following command:

./bin/HFO --defense-npcs=2 --offense-npcs=2 --no-sync --fullstate --headless

However, it takes about 4 seconds per every 100 frames or so.

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[grossmanlev]

Oh great! Thank you so much!