Re: [Super-tux-devel] today's CVS commit

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Em Sexta, 23 de Janeiro de 2004 18:08, o Tobias Gl=C3=A4=C3=9Fer escreveu:
> Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Ricardo Cruz um 20:16:
> >  Well, I can't still play the game in my laptop. It is a bit slow
> > (Pentium Celeron), so the Tux isn't updated too often and takes off the
> > screen...
>
> Hmm, I can't test the game on low-end machines currently. (AMD 2500+ ,
> NVIDIA GF4200TI, 256DDR)
>
> :(
>
> The game is currently optimized to "produce" as many frames per second
> as possible. (up to 100) In the old code 40 were the absolute maximum
> and probably never reached.
> I'll introduce an option (CLI and menu) to tune SuperTux for old
> machines. Stay tuned. :)
>
 i have made 3 snapshots to see what's the situation:
http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/trash/supertux1.png
http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/trash/supertux2.png
http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/trash/supertux3.png

 Tux collision with bricks is not even tested, because it just "moves" way =
too=20
fast. Since the framerate is so low, the game makes Tux to move without=20
updating all positions.
 And many ppl still use Pentium 2.

> >  I am not sure if these kind of code is making the slowness:
> > while (issolid(pplayer->base.x, pplayer->base.y + 31))
> >   {
> >   if (pplayer->base.ym < 0)
> >     pplayer->base.y++;
> >  else if (pplayer->base.ym > 0)
> >     pplayer->base.y--;
> >   }
>
> this code had been in the "old" SuperTux, too.
>

 Didn't notice, the old gameloop was so huge :)
 Anyway, then it's the timer's fault.

Ricardo Cruz

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