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WyvernSk
Member #2,456
June 2002
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Has anyone been experiencing temporary freeze at the start of their allegro game? Cuz everytime I start mine, the game freezes after a few seconds and then come back to normal. If I take a look at the frame rate... it starts at 80 fps drops to 5 fps and goes back to 75-80 fps. By the way, the game starts in fullscreen mode. So any help would be great. Thanks |
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Zaphos
Member #1,468
August 2001
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Sounds like a fault in your own code, not allegro, to me. Do the example programs do the same?
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kdevil
Member #1,075
March 2001
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I get that with my game also. I haven't focused much on it yet, though, so I don't know what's causing it. ----- |
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spellcaster
Member #1,493
September 2001
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It seems to happen with the latested WIP, only. It's really weird, because it takes forever to go through the init code (just setting the mode, creating the double buffer, etc.) But it happens before I enter the main loop... I'll try to find the allegro calls blocking the game.. [EDIT] -- |
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lameDuck
Member #2,327
May 2002
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I'm still on 4.0.2, are the WIPs worth using? My attitude to things like this is generally to wait until formal 'stable' releases. Things ain't broken, so I ain't gonna try fixin em Are ppl switching to WIPs just to try them out or are they fixing some problem you're having? I read the one about XP, but I haven't experienced it... |
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WyvernSk
Member #2,456
June 2002
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Actually I had that problem even before the latest WIP version. I've just discovered that It has the same problem with plain DirectX apps. (no allegro code, just DirectX). Maybe Windows XP has some special features that would cause such slowdown. |
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kdevil
Member #1,075
March 2001
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I'm using 3.9.36, or something that was shortly before version 4. The init goes fine, but about one second into the game (or, in my case, the title screen), it stutters for about a quarter of a second, and then resumes normality. I'm using Win95, by the way. ----- |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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I forwarded the post to the developer list. I'm now back-forwarding the response here: Quote: This patched src/win/wddmode.c may speed up fullscreen mode initialization: Could you take a look at it? |
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spellcaster
Member #1,493
September 2001
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I'm running windowed, and I have the same problem (in win98, not with winNT). And the delay is after the window has been created. -- |
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Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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I remember having little freezes (1/2 sec) with the 3.9.x versions (under Win98), but now I don't get any freeze (Can't tell if it's because that has been fixed or because I changed some part of my code). -- |
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kdevil
Member #1,075
March 2001
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I changed my game from double buffering to dirty rectangles, and I've noticed that the tiny freeze is less noticeable now (about 1/10th of a second). ----- |
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Hard Rock
Member #1,547
September 2001
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Well, on my computer, sometimes my a game will continue freeze every few seconds, After closing random porgrams, i found fastfind was acting screwy.... But using allegro programs, 23's tile engine demo likes to stutter every 30 seconds-2 min or so and i then find my self warped to a new part of the level.... _________________________________________________ |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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If you mean the game in my sig, I get that too (if by warping you mean that you run, it pauses for a sec, then suddenly you're a screen too far). So this is an Allegro thing and not my 'puter wasting resources in the background? I'm using Allegro 4.0. I'd read the rest of the thread first, but navigating on my monitor has become a headache, as you're about to read in the OT forum .... -- |
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