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Topic: Yay new update!(11/7)

Thanks for the new update!  Haven't had any crashes.  Finally playable, can't wait!

A few issues on the sound updates.  There's this chime-like sound effect that sometimes plays, seemingly at random, everywhere I go.  I can't seem to reproduce this by performing any particular actions.

Also, when you minimize the game, the sound will start crackling and and slowing down like it's out of resources.  I'm not seeing any change in resource usage vs when the window is focused.

Last edited by pennywise (November 7th, 2023 6:03 PM)

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Re: Yay new update!(11/7)

Sound: Is it the church bell chiming on the hour? It shouldn't be audible terribly far from town. It's an Ogg file, which may have been broken by my adding MIDI support -- not sure -- I haven't heard it and thought it was broken. (Maybe it's playing in the wrong location.)

Music: I've fixed the crackling today. It would happen any time the frame rate dropped -- it only filled up 8KB of audio (about 1/10 second) per frame. When it's minimized it limits the frame rate so as to not waste CPU. Thanks for letting me know about this!

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Re: Yay new update!(11/7)

Had time to play a tiny bit.  Still getting a small number crashes.  Is there an error log anywhere?  Spent a little time trying to reproduce crashes, but I couldn't seem to nail anything down.  It does seem to happen during combat, but I dunno.

Anywho.  Client runs so nice, overall!

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Re: Yay new update!(11/7)

There wasn't. Today's patch adds back in (and improves) the crash reporter.

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Re: Yay new update!(11/7)

Messed around for a few hours and didn’t get any crashes - even when I tried to trip things up by spamming spells and skills on a few spawns. 

I know it’s not really a priority, but do you plan on completing the map editor as well?  Honestly, that’s something I’ve been wanting to dig into for about twenty years

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Re: Yay new update!(11/7)

I'm trying to be as unambitious as possible.

I figure, if I fix even one bug a week, that's 52 bugs in a year, which is a whole lot more than "start, burn out, type too much and get a RSI, stop" will ever accomplish.

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Re: Yay new update!(11/7)

James wrote:

I'm trying to be as unambitious as possible.

I figure, if I fix even one bug a week, that's 52 bugs in a year, which is a whole lot more than "start, burn out, type too much and get a RSI, stop" will ever accomplish.

Ya.  I get it.  Super happy to have you back!

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