Bad stuttering after quick load. (Resolved; facepalm)

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MadJack
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Bad stuttering after quick load. (Resolved; facepalm)

Post by MadJack »

I browsed the forums and haven't read anything on this subject so it might be rare or just me...

After loading the game using Quick Load the game will have a really bad case of stuttering for +10 seconds. This is extremely annoying and frustrating.

Symptoms are:
Very slow. I don't have exact FPS figures but I'd say around 5 to 20 at the most. If I move during that time, things crawl even more for a while longer. Maybe texture streaming could be a cause or AI hogging resources. My 8 cores are working a lot during that time...

Right now I'm on level 4 and I honestly don't remember having that behavior in prior levels, but I also don't remember having to quick reload much either. Those damn spiders are annoying. :P

My setup:
i7 2600K (watercooled)
16 GB DDR3
nVidia GTX 480 1.5GB DDR5

Every driver is up to date.

Hopefully a resolution to this can be applied, or a bug fix. Whichever, I'll take it. ;)
Last edited by MadJack on Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
badhabit
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Re: Bad stuttering after quick load.

Post by badhabit »

MadJack wrote:I browsed the forums and haven't read anything on this subject so it might be rare or just me...

After loading the game using Quick Load the game will have a really bad case of stuttering for +10 seconds. This is extremely annoying and frustrating.

Symptoms are:
Very slow. I don't have exact FPS figures but I'd say around 5 to 20 at the most. If I move during that time, things crawl even more for a while longer. Maybe texture streaming could be a cause or AI hogging resources. My 8 cores are working a lot during that time...

Right now I'm on level 4 and I honestly don't remember having that behavior in prior levels, but I also don't remember having to quick reload much either. Those damn spiders are annoying. :P

My setup:
i7 2600K (watercooled)
16 GB DDR3
nVidia GTX 480 1.5GB DDR5

Every driver is up to date.

Hopefully a resolution to this can be applied, or a bug fix. Whichever, I'll take it. ;)
Hi, sorry have not heared of that problem before. But, fps can be shown by grimrock for debugging purposes by enableing the debugmode in the grimrock.cfg, see this post. viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2574&start=10#p26796 cheers
MadJack
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Re: Bad stuttering after quick load.

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badhabit wrote: Hi, sorry have not heared of that problem before. But, fps can be shown by grimrock for debugging purposes by enableing the debugmode in the grimrock.cfg, see this post. viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2574&start=10#p26796 cheers
Hey,

Honestly the amount of FPS is not really important. Thanks for the info anyway.

For testing purpose I tried something today. I quick-reloaded to make sure the problem was still present (it was), then I manually loaded the quick save (using the menu) and no FPS problem at all.

So from that I take it there's something fishy going on with quick load and my computer, for some reason.
MadJack
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Re: Bad stuttering after quick load. (Resolved; facepalm)

Post by MadJack »

Alright.

I guess this is a :facepalm: moment on my part.

Fraps' video recording was set to F9, so you can imagine loading and recording at the same time didn't quite give a good result. ;)

Move along, nothing to see here. ;)
badhabit
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Re: Bad stuttering after quick load. (Resolved; facepalm)

Post by badhabit »

MadJack wrote:Alright.

I guess this is a :facepalm: moment on my part.

Fraps' video recording was set to F9, so you can imagine loading and recording at the same time didn't quite give a good result. ;)

Move along, nothing to see here. ;)

haha, nice one! ;)
thanks for sharing this with us! :) cheers
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