Production Anim Slowdown Bug Options

[Bittah Commander]

For many players the production animation (gclock2.shp) causes the game to slow down when you build something cheap (apparently for some people this even slows the game down to an unbearable frame rate). I just ran a quick test and gave the clock animation fewer frames (17 instead of 55); as I expected it now doesn't slow the game at all anymore while playing on the 'Faster' gamespeed (gamespeed 5) and when playing with the fastest gamespeed, it only slowed the game down to about the rate of gamespeed 5 for a very short time (meaning this wouldn't be noticeable online).

While this could be a "sort-of fix", it'll obvoiusly look a bit odd when building more expensive things... So I was wondering whether it'd either be possible to find a way to keep the normal gclock2.shp anim from lagging the game or make it somehow drop frames when building cheaper buildings.

[SeekSomethingNew]

This is a strange little bug that no one has yet been able to solve.

VK put it down to DARKEN.SHP being drawn twice, but im not sure...

[Rampastring]

This is a strange little bug that no one has yet been able to solve.

VK put it down to DARKEN.SHP being drawn twice, but im not sure...

If I play with the WaveClass error-fix ddraw.dll, the game works generally about 200% faster and I also don't get this bug.

However, since the DLL seems to increase reconnection errors (at least for me), I usually don't use it and I do get this bug.

Also, disabling DirectDraw acceleration seems to have the same effect on the game as using the ddraw.dll (fixing this bug, fixing waveclass errors and making the game faster).

I'm not sure if this bug is related to these DirectDraw accelerations or if it's fixed just because the game works much faster than usually. But if they are related I think this information could be useful for you.

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Aug 10 2009, 05:07 PM