Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Re: Br'fin's Multi-Monitor-Support Patch: A Belated Review

[Aaron D. <ada...@ho...>]

On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 12:13  PM, Br'fin wrote:

> On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 01:07  AM, Aaron Davies wrote:
>
>> Just two caveats: first, the menu screen system dialog boxes (open 
>> game, save film) come up on the main monitor even when I have second 
>> one selected. I don't know if this is fixable, but it's annoying.
>
> I don't think anything really specifies a screen for the dialog boxes, 
> so they just come up centered on the screen that would normally hold 
> the menu bar. No clue about fixability myself. (I presume its fixable, 
> but I don't know how.)  ... by the way what screen do the preferences 
> and network dialog boxes show up on?

Prefs comes up on whatever screen I selected in the graphics panel. 
Presumably network would too, tho I don't believe I tried it. Perhaps 
there's a clue in the fact that custom dialogs come up on the right 
screen, but not generic system dialogs? The confirm dialog for closing 
a game also comes up on the right screen.

>> Second, I seem to be getting significantly worse framerates on the 
>> secondary screen than on the primary. With A1 on the Infinity map, I 
>> got about 9fps on the second screen and 15fps on the first, without 
>> changing any graphics settings. (This is of course with OGL off, as 
>> the second screen isn't plugged into a card.)
>
> Try switching the game down into Low-resolution for a better frame 
> rate. Software rendering is known to be extra-slow in both A1 and the 
> main trunk of AM. (Improper usage of a window's back buffer.) But with 
> low-resolution mode on the game should be trying to blit directly to 
> the screen more or less. So it tends to fly even when high-resolution 
> has no legitimate reason to be sluggish.

I did, they work fine it low-res, but god is it ugly. Reminds me of 
Wolfenstein!

> Technically, Low-resolution mode is doing the WRONG thing, so I don't 
> advocate making everything blit to the screen that way. :)
>
>> Oh, one other thing--in AM, a new game would sometimes come up with 
>> the HUD but no game graphics, and I'd have to change the screen size 
>> (F1-F4) to get the graphics to show. I don't know if this is specific 
>> to the patch or not.
>
> Hmm, most curious, does this problem ever show up without the patch 
> applied? On one hand the patch is in a different file and area, but 
> it's a close enough realm that something could have been missed when 
> the screens were being organized internally.

I haven't played around with AM a lot, so I'm not sure.
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