[freespace2] audio/video out of sync?
Andreas
andreas at netbank.com.br
Tue Apr 8 23:42:24 EDT 2003
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:16:09PM -0400, Taylor Richards wrote:
> They aren't supposed to be in sync. There are just several types of
> videos (i.e. basic message, under attack, death) and based on the type
There are also those story-telling messages, like in the mission I'm
in now inside some sort of nebula on the other side of a recently
discovered portal.
> of voice message specified in the mission the right video is used. I
Yes, the videos look all about the same.
> think the longest video is about 4 seconds long so all but the shortest
> voices will last longer than the video.
ok, agreed
> A couple of other people have brought this up as well but it's just how
> the game is designed. The windows version should have exactly the same
> problem as I remember complaining about this when the game was first
> released. Freespace 1 seems to be a bit better about not having such
> long or quick successions of messages but this is all in the design of
> the mission. If you notice an obvious and reproducible difference
> between the windows and linux versions then it's something we need to
> look at.
I can't remember those windows days in detail anymore :)
> As far as the game slow down, I have noticed this as well and I think it
> may be because the the 4349 nvidia drivers. I didn't have the problem
Could be, I haven't tried with the old drivers. This is the first of the
4xxx series I use, the previous one only gave me trouble and I went back
to the famous 3123 one. I should still have it somewhere around.
> with earlier driver versions. I've been pretty busy the past few days
> but I plan to take a closer look at it later this week. Hopefully I can
> figure out where the problem is and either fix it in the game or get a
> useful bug report to nvidia.
Thank you for your work on this project, it's really appreciated, freespace
is one of my favorite space combat simulations together with Elite :)
Thanks again.
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