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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0017204 | Stars Beyond Reach | Graphical Bug | Jun 8, 2015 7:25 pm | Jun 24, 2015 4:20 pm | |
| Reporter | jerith | Assigned To | tigersfan | ||
| Severity | minor | ||||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.877 (Citybuilding Smoothness) | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.898 (Beauty and the Bugs) | ||||
| Summary | 0017204: Black screen during autosave | ||||
| Description | If I have autosave enabled (with compression, if that makes any difference), the screen goes black for a few hundred milliseconds between turns while the saving happens. This is a bit disconcerting, considering the rest of the interturn happens with game visible. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| has duplicate | 0017314 | resolved | Chris_McElligottPark | black screen coming up evrey turn |
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I believe that this is working as intended, but it is something that needs to be adjusted for sure. |
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The black screen is fine during a manual save, because you're in the save menu which is all black anyway. The game->black->game transition for autosave gives the (incorrect) impression that something's wrong. Also, the abrupt changes in luminosity can be painful when one is playing one...more...turn... in bed with the lights off at 2am. Hypothetically, of course. A responsible adult would never do anything so detrimental to the following day's productivity. ^.^ |
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The "save Compression" setting says this takes longer than uncompressed saves. Try taking that option off and seeing if it still happens. |
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Well, the reason it's doing this is because it's running in a background thread so that it doesn't look like the game died, but at the same time it needs to make sure you can't touch the game at all because doing that in the middle of a save would Break Many Things. So having it basically freeze the main game graphics and throw up a "saving..." sort of message is ideally what would happen. The saving message could actually be animated or whatever, but all regular game input and rendering would just be frozen on whatever the last render pass was. I have the capability to design that in to the render pipeline, but it will take some fiddling. That will actually be a useful thing to have in several circumstances, loading of savegames among them. |
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It does, possibly for a slightly shorter time. It's a little hard to judge the difference, but in both cases I'd guess 600ms to 900ms. The resolution of my temporal perception for this kind of thing (comparing sub-2s intervals separated by tens to hundreds of seconds) is around 150-250ms. (Why yes, I've done enough rough timing comparisons (usually watching logs fly past) that I know this about myself. I'm not sure whether to be worried, scared, or amused by that.) |
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Ah, and Chris provided an excellent explanation while I was doing all the other things I did before replying here. Thanks. :-) |
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Thanks! * During the time when the game is autosaving, previously the game was blipping to black in order to prevent you from corrupting your autosave via editing something during the middle of the savegame. ** After much finagling with the engine, it now instead draws whatever frame it was previously showing you until it finishes the save. This prevents the jolting out to a black screen, while also keeping it so that you can't corrupt the savegame itself. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Jun 8, 2015 7:25 pm | jerith | New Issue | |
| Jun 8, 2015 8:26 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0042100 | |
| Jun 8, 2015 8:50 pm | jerith | Note Added: 0042116 | |
| Jun 8, 2015 9:01 pm | Cinth | Note Added: 0042121 | |
| Jun 8, 2015 9:04 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0042122 | |
| Jun 8, 2015 9:16 pm | jerith | Note Added: 0042124 | |
| Jun 8, 2015 9:17 pm | jerith | Note Added: 0042125 | |
| Jun 23, 2015 8:08 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Relationship added | has duplicate 0017314 |
| Jun 23, 2015 8:08 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => keith.lamothe |
| Jun 23, 2015 8:08 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => assigned |
| Jun 24, 2015 4:20 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0042447 | |
| Jun 24, 2015 4:20 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | assigned => resolved |
| Jun 24, 2015 4:20 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Fixed in Version | => 0.898 (Beauty and the Bugs) |
| Jun 24, 2015 4:20 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Jun 24, 2015 4:20 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | keith.lamothe => tigersfan |
