[0.3.9.1] station menu loads creepy slow

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 8:59 pm

The menus for the Mission/Cargo/Ship are loading very slow (~1-2 minutes).
The rest of the game is very smooth to play.

I also noticed this behaviour in the 4.x data.

Pontiac

Post by **hurleybird** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:00 pm

I noticed this too. Kind of like how the downgrade ship menu used to lag somewhat.

Post by **hellcatv** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:03 pm

yes this is really strange

the odd part is that on MacOS (half-speed slower processor there) and on linux it's really really fast.

it seems to be a windows only thing...and it's hte same code that used to load when you used to click on the mission thing

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:05 pm

Maybe the compiler does this?

Just a guess

Pontiac

Post by **hellcatv** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:07 pm

same compiler as of olde

Post by **hurleybird** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:10 pm

Probably some slowdown from windows update... every time i use that thing i fear the massive slowdown that might (and has before) ensued.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:14 pm

hurleybird wrote:Probably some slowdown from windows update... every time i use that thing i fear the massive slowdown that might (and has before) ensued.

What do you mean with "windows update"?
the upgarde of the system, the window-refresh or something else ?
Pontiac

Post by **hurleybird** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:17 pm

the automatic updating service in WinXP, you know, you DL stuff like bug fixes, sercurity hole coverups, performance enhancments, performance killers.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:20 pm

hurleybird wrote:the automatic updating service in WinXP, you know, you DL stuff like bug fixes, sercurity hole coverups, performance enhancments, performance killers.

Ohhhhh that one

I think i never saw that one in action....and yeah i'm surfing very unsafe here

Pontiac

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Win2k,some service packs, that's all...
Didn't change the system since 0.3.

TomCerul · Post by **TomCerul** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:52 pm

I get to slow response on Win98. It's not the XP update that's doing it.

It doesn't seem to even be waiting for the disk. It just waits.

KleiZwei · Post by **KleiZwei** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:48 am

I'm using win2k on this machine and I've also noticed that the menus as well as the save game option are considerably slower then in the previous release, however I only notice it to be about 20-25 seconds longer than before when most of the menus apeared instantly or within 3 seconds.

specificly the most notable wait is when you go from a main concourse to a weapons room.

so somewhere between this release and the previous one, something got botched.

Post by **hellcatv** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:59 pm

the strange thing is that it happens on win but on lin and mac it's still the same speed---and the code has not been touched

KleiZwei · Post by **KleiZwei** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:56 am

Is it maybe an unseen memory leak, or a infinite loop created at some other point in the game? I'm assuming a number of things happen when you first goto a spacestation... for instance i would assume that your personal save is loaded into ram in case you decide to buy/sell supplies...

might it have something to do with the change in the way that ship files are handled? probably not...