[Bug] [Fixed] Sluggish Conflux

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Post by Daecon »

Hey! A game I'm not too late to miss out on playing!

*downloads*

Maybe it's my computer, but I find the action controls very sluggish and completely non responsive at times... just what I don't need when trying to kill a group of monsters. I'm selecting the "Swing" attack in he attack menu but nothing happens sometimes. It's like the game isn't registering my mouse clicks :(
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Just out of interest are you finding the sound weird aswell? Try selecting 'direct x' from the volume controls. If not, then i don't know
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The mouse handling was pretty much re-written
for this release. It was never tested on any sort
of relatively slow machine. I worried about releasing
it so soon.

So we need to know as much as possible about
the kind of machine you are playing this on. And
we need to know if any other people are finding
'slugish' response. Any clues we can get will help
us fix your problem.

The biggest change is that releasing the mouse
button creates an event that is passed through
a queue. It used to be that only pressing the
button created such an event. So the queue can
fill up twice as quickly now. When it is full, a mouse
button press can be lost. But one would suspect
that the queue could get full only on slower machines.

Tomorrow, I will try to make a CSBwin with a
longer queue to see if that makes any difference
in your particular case. Unfortunately, the queue length
is wired into the code in MANY places. :-(
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Same deal, even at the start of the game I had the movement pause for a moment or the mouse clicks on fast spellcasting not register the last few presses at all.

In combat, maybe forewarned, I didn't have missing button presses but did find a pause before i could move quite alot

I have 3000+ sempron I think (AMD processor anyway) 1Gb memory, 9600SE radeon graphics card...I am runnign Win98SE still though

Will try on my laptop to see if there is a difference

Unrelated bug: party member died, but the placeholder for him didn't go. Being it was combat I had already started to move a back player up to the front to protect poor guy. After the swap the back placeholder was a discoloured unmoveable champion and the front placeholder was then stuck in position
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And the same on a 1.5GHz celeron 504Mb memory laptop running WinXP. While I woulnd't rate either great in their current configuration, they can run RTC without a hitch so I'm guessing it's nothing to do with computer speed that is causing these bumps.
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I've got an "AMD Turion" 64 something with 1.6GHz and 448 RAM.

I'm not really sure what all that means.

I've also got Windows XP with Service Pack 2, apparently.

I do click on the SWING action as soon as the attack is available to use again, as I would expect it to do the attack the moment I press the button. However it can take a couple of seconds before my frantic button presses register, in which time the characters seem to just stand there not doing anything at all.

(Also, I have no trouble with RTC either. But they are different engines...)
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I didn't have any slowdown during the playtesting. I'll test on a very slow machine.

I withdraw the file until the problem is solved.
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Post by Paul Stevens »

I think there are two problems. I want very much to
obtain a recording of one of the 'slowdowns'. Beowuuf,
you say it happened at the start of the game so one
of your recordings might be very helpful. I have
all the other pieces (engine, graphics) so all you
need send is the recordxxx.log file(s).

Edit.--------
Never mind the logs for now.
Try replacing CSBwin with

http://www.dianneandpaul.net/CSBwin/CSBwin9957.zip

It makes some things a lot better. I hope it
did not break something else.
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Post by Zyx »

I tested on a 166MHz with 128Mb and win98 (which is also my only working PC left), and I got the slowdown when using the mouse.

With CSBwin9957 there is no problem. The playback works fine too.

EDIT:
The files are uploaded, the competition is running again.

My computer died and I had to scavenge what I could from the HDD...
I couldn't find the latest version of the dungeon or the version history. Anyway, it shouldn't affect the comptetion.
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I've got the full package including version history if you want it mailed to you?
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