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Faster, no problems

Faster, problematic

Same speed, no problems

Same speed, problematic

Slower, no other problems

Slower, problematic

Doesn't work at all

[Bergelmir]

Ok, now I was able to test it on my Ubuntu 8.10. Compared with d17 the framerate is cut half. Could this be a result of a different FPS calculation?

All 3D modes move around 30 FPS, PARTIAL:5 is a bit faster and VBO is the fastest for me with ten more frames per second than the other modes. I think I am running a on board GMA3000 on an 965 Intel board.

By the way df was missing the libjpeg.so.8 and I had to link it again to the libs folder. Is this normal?

EDIT: Textmode is really fine with about 90 FPS. Only the font is not as nice as in the other modes. Is it possible to convert a tilset from png to a console font?

EDIT2: I think it was mentioned before, but I am not sure, therfore I will repeat it. Using SHIFT up or down arrow brings me into the macro menu. I am running df in a Gnome-Terminal.

[Baughn]

Shift up/down is not supported in text mode (yet). I'm not sure it even can be, simultaneously with ctrl; as you see, it sends the same input as ctrl-l/s. 

It's possible that the FPS appears to have fallen due to the FPS counter fix, but that does leave me in a bit of a pickle. I may have to revert that fix, just to leave benchmarks doable.. which would leave us using an FPS counter I know exaggerates the numbers.

Hm, or I could just insert both, and you'll get both the real number /and/ the old-style one. Yeah, I think I'll do that; can always remove the broken one again later.

[quinnr]

Yeah, my FPS seems to have dropped, so I guess it's the counter.

[lizard]

Can you try in urxvt?

On Karmic, the problem persists in urxvt.  I forgot to try sshing from karmic to lenny.

[koitsu]

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The Hill of Volcanos
ThThe Doused Land

Do you have an ATI video card?
It seems, that only happens with those kind.

Absolutely not.  I have a BFG 9800GT (BFGE981024GTGE), which is obviously an nVidia.

I have a hard time believing such a bug would happen only on a specific model of video card (despite ATI's known OpenGL bugs), especially given that smells of an engine printing text without properly clearing the previous framebuffer section first -- or, not filling the buffer used for strings with spaces before populating it.

I'll mess with PRINT_MODE to see if anything changes, in addition to trying original 40d to see it happens there.

EDIT: This bug doesn't happen with stock 40d.

EDIT2: Regarding PRINT_MODE -- this bug happens in all modes.  I tried 2D, 2DHW, 2DASYNC, STANDARD, ACCUM_BUFFER, and FRAME_BUFFER.  I did not test VBO or PARTIAL.

Does the source code repo have a browsable interface (something like cvsweb or svnweb)?  I might be able to narrow it down by looking at the code.

[Grax]

Why don't i see the poll in the upper part of this topic? Is it my opera's bug or is it really absent?

[rdwulfe]

rdwulfe: Right, time to get to the bottom of this.

Try setting G_FPS to 1. That will obviously make the game mostly unplayable, but just.. see how that affects framerates. If it doesn't increase it all that much, I suspect the explanation is either something Toady did internally to make things work with d17/18, which will likely be fixed in DF'10 due to being rewritten. Alternately, it might be due to the fixed FPS counter.

If it does increase the framerate noticably.. okay, then something's up.

Ok, what the heck does that do? Umn, wow. FPS 600-800 (1)... I get it now, the 1st is the FPS, the 2nd is the graphical fps, IE how fast the game is actually running?  I like the new FPS counter, and it's in a much better position, wish I could port that back into d16!

d17 and d18 are both slower than d16 for me, so I tend to play with d16 and test things with d18. Apologies it took me so long to respond, Baughn. I hope this helps.

EDIT: That'll teach me not to preview my work. Oof.

[Ogantai]

Does the source code repo have a browsable interface (something like cvsweb or svnweb)?  I might be able to narrow it down by looking at the code.

http://github.com/Baughn/Dwarf-Fortress--libgraphics-

[Quietust]

Why don't i see the poll in the upper part of this topic? Is it my opera's bug or is it really absent?

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I just tried loading this topic in both Opera and IE8, and the poll results didn't show up (looking just like you're seeing) until after I logged in, at which point it looked like this:

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If you're not seeing it even while logged in, it's possible your user account has been configured to not allow participating in polls, whether by yourself or by an administrator.

[Fist_Of_Armok]

Okay, I changed my tileset-from MaydayMIX to MaydayMAX-and suddenly my FPS drops like a stone.

Any particular reason?

[Quietust]

As an experiment, I just tried running Reinhammers before and after changing G_FPS from 20 to 1, and the framerate went from 4 (4) to 9-10 (0-1) when using PARTIAL_PRINT:0 (the fastest mode for me).

By comparison, 40d ran at 9-10fps whether G_FPS was set to 1 or to 50 (the default). This is on a system with a 256MB Radeon X1300/X1550 card and a 3GHz Pentium D CPU - I'll test it on my main system (Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz, 512MB Geforce 8800GT) later.

[Baughn]

Armok's fist: If the texture catalog ends up too large for the GPU, and has to be handled in software, that will happen.

rdwulfe: Does it actually /feel/ faster, or are you going only by the FPS counter?

[Baughn]

I've done something that might fix the ncurses output.. orr~, it might cause it not to work at all.

Try -head, see what happens?

[Quietust]

Testing Reinhammers on my main system (Q6600 @ 2.4GHz, 512MB GF8800GT):

40d, PARTIAL_PRINT:YES:0, G_FPS_CAP:50 = 15-16fps
40d, PARTIAL_PRINT:YES:0, G_FPS_CAP:1 = 15-18fps

40d18, PARTIAL:0, G_FPS_CAP:20 = 11-13 (11-13)fps
40d18, PARTIAL:0, G_FPS_CAP:1 = 14-16 (0-1)fps

I also somehow got a case where BLACK_SPACE wasn't working properly for horizontal sizing - it was inserting black space on the top and bottom, but it was stretching horizontally to fill the window (I use NEAREST, so it was plainly obvious that tiles were being stretched); after restarting, though, it started behaving correctly.

[John Keel]

Something is very weird with the delete keybindings for me. I realize I've said this before, but it's driving me insane. When I delete the entry for STRING_A000, which is what it's registered as by default, text entries are constantly deleted in-game. When I re-set it to delete (shown as U+7F), and try again, it creates mountain symbols where the last character was. From what I can tell, however, there is nothing overlapping with it in interface.txt (either BACKSPACE or U+7F).