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Title: Two Bugs - Pause and Mineral Offload Speed Post by: serendipity on December 13, 2002, 04:25:46 am Two bugs I couldn't find in the lists or forums:
Offloading minerals takes a random amount of time it seems. About 50% of the time, it's instant - I don't even see the animation for going through the list of minerals and counting them down (but I know it's playing the animation, as I can occasionally see a frame or two of the countdown display). The other 50% of the time, it's normal - I can see the full animation at "normal" speed. Can't figure out what makes it one way or the other. This is on my laptop that I see the 50/50 behavior - PIII 850, 256MB RAM, Windows XP, using the CVS version. On my desktop, Athlon 2200, 512MB RAM, Windows 2000, running the Alpha, I only saw the "instant" behavior, but that may have been coincidence. Also, it's been mentioned, but not as its own topic. You can pause the game, but can't unpause it. Oddly, this doesn't happen when I build the debug version, only with the Win32 Release version. With the debug build, F1 pauses and unpauses. With the release build, F1 pauses, but the only key that the game responds to afterwards is ~, to exit. Haven't been able to figure out where the problem is, as it's tough to debug without debugging information. Title: Re: Two Bugs - Pause and Mineral Offload Speed Post by: SLot0k on December 13, 2002, 06:42:57 am I can confirm that the pause button does not unpause in the win32 v0.12 version. Win98se, 128M RAM.
I guess I'll have to start a conversation when I need a beer! ;D Title: Re: Two Bugs - Pause and Mineral Offload Speed Post by: miri on December 13, 2002, 02:41:25 pm confirming the offloading speed thing.
It seems to be more probable to happen instantly when I have a lot of exotic minerals (the 25RU things). Title: Re: Two Bugs - Pause and Mineral Offload Speed Post by: Nic. on December 13, 2002, 10:06:55 pm I've got a theory on where to start looking, but let's see if my ideas on "what's going on" pan out:
If it's going at "normal speed" and you hit Enter, does it go into fast-forward mode? Give it a shot.. Title: Re: Two Bugs - Pause and Mineral Offload Speed Post by: EoRaptor on December 14, 2002, 01:31:41 am The mineral offload bug happens as follows: If you offload minerals as the very first action after selecting 'starbase commander' it'll happen at 'normal' speed. If you talk to the commander about anything else first, mineral offload is instant. Title: Re: Two Bugs - Pause and Mineral Offload Speed Post by: TD on December 14, 2002, 03:17:09 am Sorry but you're wrong EoRaptor.
The offloading minerals bug happens when you hit enter hard or hold it down when selecting to offload minerals which means it is being dectected while the offloading is in progress and skips it. It should really only skip if you hit enter again. Something to add to the bugs list anyway :) |