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

Uwe Domaratius wrote:
> 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.

Well, two things that can lag pretty badly is the map window, depending on 
the update setting (maprefresh), and the vehicle list windows, 
particularly with sorting enabled.

I suspect it's not so much the number of windows, but rather very specific 
ones that cause the lagging, and those two would be the usual suspects.

-- 
Josef Drexler

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