AGS overload: music stutters

Pumaman · Sun 27/01/2008 18:26:52

Would you be able to upload a sample of this for me take a look at, or are the game files too large?

hedgefield · Sun 27/01/2008 19:45:37

Well, the main .exe by itself is 100 mb, I don't know how you feel about that.

I'd have no problem uploading it though, I already send out beta's every now and then. Can you manage with just the Compiled folder contents, or do you need actual editor files aswell?

Pumaman · Sun 27/01/2008 19:48:27

Well, if you were using a recent version of AGS the Compiled files would be enough -- I'm not sure though since you're using 2.62. If you don't mind uploading it anyway, I'll give it a go and see.

Pumaman · Wed 30/01/2008 20:09:35

I've had a look at this now, but I can't really investigate very far because it was made with 2.62.

What I would say is that there have been a lot of optimisations and performance improvements in the 3 years since that version of AGS was released, so it might be worth having a go at upgrading it to 2.72 at least, and see if the problem is still there.

hedgefield · Thu 31/01/2008 12:22:50

Ok. Well, thanks anyway.

I've tried once or twice to upgrade, but half the game broke, and I didn't want to invest time in learning the new programming language yet, so I'll finish this one in 2.62 and do the next game in 3.0. But maybe it'll help Radiant or any others struggling with this problem.

Radiant · Thu 31/01/2008 12:58:45

Quote from: largopredator on Thu 31/01/2008 12:22:50
Ok. Well, thanks anyway. I've tried once or twice to upgrade, but half the game broke, and I didn't want to invest time in learning the new programming language yet, so I'll finish this one in 2.62 and do the next game in 3.0. But maybe it'll help Radiant or any others struggling with this problem.

2.62 -> 2.72 isn't that big of a switch (at least, you can still use the non-OO code in 2.72 without problems).

But, I'm afraid I'm having pretty much the same issue in 2.72 so that might not help

Pumaman · Thu 31/01/2008 19:48:14

Radiant, can you try out 3.0.1 because I've made a few changes that might improve this for you.

Radiant · Fri 01/02/2008 13:47:06

Quote from: Pumaman on Thu 31/01/2008 19:48:14
Radiant, can you try out 3.0.1 because I've made a few changes that might improve this for you.

I'll give it a shot this weekend. It's complex code, too, so I hope it upgrades to 3.0-style well

Radiant · Sat 02/02/2008 10:31:06

Well, I'm having some troubles upgrading to 3.0, that can be blamed squarely on Bill Gates.

In the meantime, I found out, to my surprise, that using WAV files rather than MP3 doesn't actually help.

(edit) However, the problem does disappear almost completely if I don't do a RawClearScreen before all the rawdrawing. Apparently that's a pretty slow operation.