Re: Patch speed problems, was: Alpine climate, speed problems

Uwe Domaratius wrote:
> I then tested if turning off the sprite sorter would have any influence. 
> Well, it did not, game speed remained unsteady as soon as one or more 
> train windows were open, regardless of the sprite sorter setting. So now 
> I'm somewhat confused. I'll recheck the whole thing on my gaming 
> machine, but that'll have to wait until the weekend.

Ok, I retested on the gaming machine, and well, my previous report seems 
to be wrong. The sprite sorter does not seem to have a significant 
effect on game speed, neither does the showspeed setting.

What does however have a significant effect, is the number of windows 
opened, and the complexity of the game, i.e. how many trains are 
running, how long they are and so on. It seems the amount of sprites on 
the screen heavily influences performance (which would be perfectly 
logical). I did not test whether changing the resolution has an effect 
as I only play at 640*480 anyway.

I seem to remember that this lagging was introduced about one and a half 
year or so ago, at least that's when I first noticed it. I am willing to 
do more testing but without any directions or hints as to which patch 
settings might have an influence it's much like searching the needle in 
a haystack.

Greets,
Uwe

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