Battlescape Panel Question & Music Bugs

[hurz]

One question and one-and-a-half bug here, using 0.7.1062 on win xp:

 

On maybe v0.7.1031 (don't know 100% exactly, sorry) the game had the classic xcom battlescape control panel, making it a bit easier to use (bigger buttons, of course more familiar than the grey-blueish ufo2k graphics and symbols). Was it changed out of copyright reasons? I liked it..

 

The bugs are that the music volume slider doesn't affect the actual playing volume; even setting it to 0 will have no effect, music will continue playing. Furthermore the sound gets choppy / repeats a small fraction of it as long as a weapons action menu (snap shot / auto shot etc.) is open. I didn't find these on the bug tracker so i thought i would mention them here.

 

Apart from these minor things, keep up the fantastic work, guys!

[Brick-To-Face]

I think in the options you can select "use classic Xcom grphics" and that will make the menu old-school style after you restart UFO2k.

Same goes for the music, set it to 0, exit, start ufo2k and voila, no music.

I have a 466MHz laptop, so my music gets choppy too, no problems on my 1.8GHz box though. Besides, I turned off music a while ago

[hurz]

Hehe, seems like i just forgot the 'restart ufo2k' bit. Much better now.. *blushes*

 

The choppyness nevertheless still exists on this 1,5GHz machine, it's only noticeable on the music though. Since i as well prefer to play it 'fx only' it doesn't disturb that much now. Thank you!

[Brick-To-Face]

...The choppyness nevertheless still exists on this 1,5GHz machine...

Hmm, anyone with knowledge of the code know why?

[Blood Angel]

1.5 GHz isn't that much, that's why. UFO2k is surprisingly resource-consuming, definitely more so than XCom.

[Brick-To-Face]

1.5 GHz isn't that much, that's why. UFO2k is surprisingly resource-consuming, definitely more so than XCom.

I'm not much of a programmer yet, but is this because UFO uses a whole load of externally developed libraries? Just a guess, I'm a little interested?

[Kratos]

I don't know where all of you are getting 'choppiness' with 1.5 ghz...I have a 800 mhz machine that runs smoothly. Especially the beta is quite fast.

[hurz]

As i wrote, it's only noticeable with music turned on -and- while selecting a mode out of the weapons menu, like aimed shot, snap shot and the like. I suspect a tiny programming flaw to be the cause.

[Sporb]

its probably somthing else, ufo2k runs fine on virtual (100% transparant glass test map) on a p200 fine. I'd assume theres somthing up with your sound device?

 

EDIT: with no skipping afaik not even in the area you mentioned.

Edited July 30, 2006 by Sporb

[Brick-To-Face]

On my machine choppyness occurs during fullscreen->window process, while scrolling, and during some other processes. Not sure if that helps. It's probably because my system is a bit more cluttered in the processes department :/

[hurz]

I'd assume theres somthing up with your sound device?

 

Hmm, seems to be true. The problem could not be reproduced on one of the test machines, a p2/266 Notebook. [edit: This one will just play the music a little choppy from time to time while scrolling over the map.] More exact benchmarks will follow soon. BTW. i am the guy who tested this great game on worst-case hardware, this machine and a terribly default p200 - without music in both cases..

 

Stuttering during the switch from fullscreen -> windowed or vice versa is quite common.

 

The machine seemingly just repeating a small buffer while in weapons menu (the 1,5GHz thingy) uses nforce2 onboard sound. I can exclude general problems since other games do work pretty well soundwise and the pc is used to create music.

Edited August 2, 2006 by hurz