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Title: Delay responing to input
Post by: on July 23, 2006, 04:30:31 AM

Whan I play gish on my main computer, ther is a delay between pressing a key and gish responding. I would estimate the delay at between 100ms and 200ms, which makes it pretty unplayable.

This problem has been nagging me for a while, but not as long as the long quitting time problem.

It persisted through an Ubuntu Dapper re-install, as did the quitting problem.

My other computer, an AMD /w an nVidia card has neither problem.

Title: Delay responing to input
Post by: Chronic Logic - Josiah on July 24, 2006, 04:55:57 PM

Try running Gish with the music and sound turned off and let me know if you see any difference.

Title: Delay responing to input
Post by: on August 01, 2006, 03:27:37 AM

Yes, that does seem to fix both problems.

Title: Delay responing to input
Post by: on August 01, 2006, 03:38:26 AM

Given that, I installed OpenAL 0.0.8, using the LD_PRELOAD method, which fixes the quitting time problem, but not the responsiveness problem.

It might be a good idea for you to start bundling a tested version of the OpenAL libraries. ;)

Title: Delay responing to input
Post by: Chronic Logic - Josiah on August 01, 2006, 04:45:59 PM

Try just rturning the music off and using the LD_PRELOAD to load OpenAL and see if that helps. Maybe it is your ogg vorbis libs that are causing problems.

Title: Delay responing to input
Post by: on August 09, 2006, 03:44:18 AM

Well, somewhere in all my fiddling, everything started working.

Using libopenal 0.0.8 and libalut 1.0.1 is working perfectly (with LD_PRELOAD, of course).

libopenal CVS 2005/08/06 is now making no sound at all.

I was going to work on setting up a wine environment and using the Windows version, but it looks like it will not come to that.

Chronic Logic

Gish => Gish Support => Topic started by: on July 23, 2006, 04:30:31 AM