Game freezes when focusing back

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, unity
Domain
game-dev, networking

Research direction

Start with the README snippet and trace how Update() invokes websocket.DispatchMessageQueue(). Reproduce the alt-tab case with roughly 20 messages per second, then verify that messages do not accumulate and cause a freeze when focus returns.

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Description

I am using the snippet given in the README. On OnMessage, I do some complex and quite big data changes. I have ~20 messages per second.

The game works fine when it's focused, but when I alt-tab it, leave it there for some time, and go back, it gets frozen for a significant time. It seems that all the messages are queued while it's unfocused (as Update() doesn't seem to be happening) and then are processed when it gets focused again.

Anyway to fix this issue? It would be good if I could process the messages / call websocket.DispatchMessageQueue() outside the Update().

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