Opened 18 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#3136 closed defect (fixed)
BASS: Speed difference
| Reported by: | eriktorbjorn | Owned by: | joostp |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: Sky |
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| Cc: | Game: | Beneath a Steel Sky |
Description
BASS 0.0372 Latest SVN version
While comparing BASS in ScummVM to BASS in DOSbox, I noticed that even on a fast computer, the default game speed seems noticeably faster in ScummVM than it is in DOSbox.
Ticket imported from: #1690836. Ticket imported from: bugs/3136.
Change History (11)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
comment:3 by , 17 years ago
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comment:5 by , 17 years ago
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comment:8 by , 16 years ago
At some point (a fairly long time ago) the delay value was changed, presumably to make it more accurate to the original, however it seemed to have speeded things up unintentionally. All I know is that I was never able to figure out how that value was derived, nor do I remember who it was that changed it. Perhaps svn log/blame can tell us more.
comment:9 by , 16 years ago
quickly looking at svn log, it seems to have been changed with this commit:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- r19792 | lavosspawn | 2005-12-13 16:05:06 +0100 (di, 13 dec 2005) | 2 lines
changed delay code ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
of course, it could be that the old behaviour was also wrong (or even worse), so probably best would be to consult the original source code.
comment:10 by , 16 years ago
Should be fixed as of r36318. The original interpreter's delay is 4 50hz ticks = 80ms (1000 / 50 * 4).
Changing the engine game speed to match this makes it run at the correct speed as far as I can tell.
comment:11 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
I don't have the original BASS interpreter, but the game does seem too fast to me as well. Perhaps there's not enough delay between displayed frames? The most likely culprit seems to be needDelay in sky.cpp line 339. Changing line 333 from: delayCount += _systemVars.gameSpeed; to: delayCount += 2 * _systemVars.gameSpeed; seems to make game speed more "normal" for me, but this is just speculation. I don't know how gameSpeed and delayCount are related, just that in line 335 there is a check to see if needDelay is greater than 4 times the value of gameSpeed (why 4 times?). Perhaps someone with the original game source can shed some more light here.