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.

[Styx221]

Yup, like all build lag fixes ive tried it fixes it at first then crashes, needing a restart. Posting here seems kinda pointless since last post was NOV 09 and the forum seems kinda dead but whatever, maybe a year down the road a fix happens and I might want to play tibsun again. (This is XP home editon, directx 9.0c, GTX 260, dual core system)

Things I have tried to get rid of lag + play:

-Updated to newest video drivers + downgraded to oldest video drivers for my card (gtx 260) ineffective

-Compatibility is ineffective past limiting cores to one

-Ddraw.ddl from my system folder, RA2 installation, and a edited ddraw from another forum for tib sun all causes artifacts and requires restart

-Can only reduce ddraw acceleration in my display properties (too far and I get a black screen on start-up, not far enough = no effect)

-Reinstalled tibsun several times, all fixes tried with unpatched version, patched version, and TFD version (the first decade)

-Edited Darken.shp and gclock2.shp several times any edit that fixes the lag or improves it causes a crash 10-15 minutes into gameplay

- Tried the attachment in this thread, it fixes the lag perfectly but like all fixes it crashes 15 mins in and requires a restart

- Reducing resolution is ineffective

- Tib is always set to using 1 core

Things I have yet to try:

-Slotting in an older card

-Downgrading to windows ME (that has its own problems

-Reformatting (would but currently on a wireless usb stick with pitiful downloads and a cd-dvd drive that is broken (cannot burn cds) and do not feel the urge to redownload 200 gb of iso files)

*sigh* i think its just my card that does not like tiberian sun, I want to play it but I do not have my old radeon 9800 anymore or a computer that would run that old pos.

This lag just ruins the game for me personally, I cannot play with it and I cannot find a fix that does not crash my system after 10 mins or immediately artifacts my card, my card is properly seating, has sufficient cooling and is NOT overheating. W/e

[Rampastring]

-Edited Darken.shp and gclock2.shp several times any edit that fixes the lag or improves it causes a crash 10-15 minutes into gameplay

- Tried the attachment in this thread, it fixes the lag perfectly but like all fixes it crashes 15 mins in and requires a restart

The fix shouldn't cause any crashes. Could you post the except.txt from TS' folder to the Internal Errors topic?

-Downgrading to windows ME (that has its own problems

Would likely just cause more problems as it probably doesn't support your hardware.

*sigh* i think its just my card that does not like tiberian sun, I want to play it but I do not have my old radeon 9800 anymore or a computer that would run that old pos.

I know many people who play TS with GPUs as new and powerful as yours and they've got no problems.

Anyway, post the except.txt and we might be able to get the problem solved (assuming Hyper reads it, of course).

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

@Styx221
Thanks for the detailed info. Seems like you've tried already pretty much of the possible software fixes.
But before you start changing massively your system and OS you should try to use a Virtual Machine.
Then install in this virtual machine your winXP OS and then TS/FS.

Since the virtual machine emulates the hardware, there might be the chance the problems with TS are fixed too.


btw, from my own experience it doesn't helps to change the GraCa. The problem is afaik bound the mainboard and its chipset (thus indirect also bound to the CPU that needs the newer chipset to work fine).

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Apr 28 2010, 10:36 AM