R4

[madpeople]

once the uncompressed wav is in memory, it probably takes less time to transfer it from memory to be played than it does for the cup to uncompress a compressed version.

the advantage of compressed audio is loading it from the hdd when you join a server, with all my highres stuff and everything in .wav format i cant actually join a server first time because it takes too long to load everything.

[Orion]

QUOTE (madpeople @ Jan 30 2007, 11:59 AM) once the uncompressed wav is in memory, it probably takes less time to transfer it from memory to be played than it does for the cup to uncompress a compressed version.

It doesn't have to transfer the whole thing at once, just a few hundred bytes at a time (to directsound to the soundcard to output). Decompressing a small amount does not take a significant amnt of time, uses less memory, and can be avoided altogether with older PCs (by them converting the oggs to wavs in the installer as it does by default).

[Lykourgos]

There's a couple of minor things that I couldn't find in the Bugzilla;

Is there any plan to default the radar mode to all?

I've heard rumors that the Ship Accel GA knocks down a ship's boosting top speed by 10%. Is that true, and should it be fixed if it is?

[Grimmwolf_GB]

QUOTE (Lykourgos @ Feb 6 2007, 10:47 PM) I've heard rumors that the Ship Accel GA knocks down a ship's boosting top speed by 10%. Is that true, and should it be fixed if it is?

It is not a rumour, it is a fact. Check the max speed in F4 just before the research is done.
I think it should be fixed.

[Pook]

Not really important, but the installer is .ogg only by default. You have to check a box if you want it to decode the audio to .wav files.

Carry on...

[Kag]

I'm not trying to be rude, but why are you arguing about the effeciency of the games file-usage system when most of today's ENTRY-LEVEL systems leave the games requirements in the dust? It just seems so... pointless.

[madpeople]

well, i know that i cant join a server first time because my system has to load so much data from hdd while it tries to join that it times out my join request, the second time i try to join i get on.

perhaps a separate thread starts loading stuff when you start alleg, it could load everything in a list (text file) or just everything, or everything common to all cores / most cores. seperate thread is cool because its MULTI THREADED!

[AdmiralKirk]

Profesional game developers have an insanly hard time using multi-threading, I would probably stay far away from that as possible. Even with proper use of Mutex's its still a pain, and sometimes not any faster. Removing alleg's dependence on MFC would probably add the biggest spead boost/memory efficiency, but would probalby also require the most amount of work ^^.

[mdvalley]

Multithreading is a pain in the ass to code, and a pain in the ass to debug. If you are volunteering to implement a multithreaded loading model, be my guest.

[Orion]

Multithreading is a snap in .NET ;-D