Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult

Alessandro Furgiuele · Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:25 am

I have the last snapshot. In the gameplay options, the fps speed is set on 5. I put it on 8, but everytime I restart Exult, it get reverted to 5.
I also tried to set exult.cfg to "read only". Doesn't work.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:32 pm

Are you editing the one in your User folder?

Alessandro Furgiuele · Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:34 am

Post by **Dominus** » Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:24 am

Are you sure you haven't set the cfg to read only and then tried to change settings?
Please do the following:
Make sure it is the right cfg (write the path down here)
Start Exult from the program folder (not the shortcut)
change the following in Exult: in video settings scaler to point and in the gameplay settings the fps to something other than 5.
Exit exult and copy paste the contents of the cfg here.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sat Aug 31, 2019 2:24 pm

I'm on vacation right now and away from PC. I will do it when I'll be back with my PC and let you know

Alessandro Furgiuele · Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:47 am

C:\Users\ENRICO F\AppData\Local\Exult\exult.cfg

I have the video setting scaler on Hg2x, maybe that's the reason. There's no way to use Hg2x and change the fps other than 5?

Post by **Dominus** » Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:45 am

The scaler doesn't matter, but please do the steps.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:48 am

Now it works. I just realized that when I launch Exult I don't have to open the settings from there but after I launched the game.
If I open the gameplay settings then I will have 5fps, but if I just launch the game as the first thing I do after launching Exult.exe, I have 8 fps (which is what I prefer)

Post by **Dominus** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:01 am

ahhhh, makes sense. Maybe that option shouldn't show in the main menu. I'll file a bug report so I don't forget to take a look

Alessandro Furgiuele · Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:57 am

Keep up the great work! You guys are awesome, what you created and still do today is something amazing for the videogame media

Thank you very much.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:17 pm

I have only one last question (it doesn't concern the fps speed).
I'm using SIFixes for Serpent Isle, but I found online some patched version of some files (in particular gumps.vga, pointers.shp and sprites.vga). In order to have them working when playing through SIFixes, I must copy these files into the folder data of sifixes.
My question is: can I do it safely? Or there is the chance of some possible conflict?
As I said, files I'm interested in are gumps.vga, pointers.shp and sprites.vga

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 4:42 pm

What/where are these patched versions? It should be fine to use and have no impact on the game speed.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:36 pm

Well, I use an Italian amateur localization of Ultima VII which runs on Exult and it comes with some files:
Gumps.vga, pointers.shp and sprites.vga, contained in a "patch" folder. They are somehow updated versions of the original SI files.
So they work separately on their own and there's no conflict if I put them into mods\sifixes\data to use them combined with SIFixes? Not just for the game speed, I say in general.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:01 pm

As long as they are done correctly in terms of dimensions and such, yes.

Do you have a link handy?

Post by **Dominus** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:22 am

Actually these won't work correctly.
SIfixes has patched versions of some of those. At least gumps.vga. So this will revert back some of SI fixes.
Not to mention that the SI Fixes usecode is in English and will override the translated stuff.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:14 am

I have an old SIFixes version which has been translated in Italian too, and I won't overwrite any already existing file.
That SIFIxes doesn't contain gumps.vga

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:16 am

Here you can download the Italian localization of Serpent Isle and SIFixes if you guys wanna check by yourself:
http://www.oldgamesitalia.net/traduzion ... rpent-isle
Under download section ("Traduzione" and "SIFIXES MOD")

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:18 am

The "Traduzione" (Translation) contains the patched files

Post by **Dominus** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:40 am

When Marzo fixed the spells he also fixed them for the spellbook and magic scrolls. Since then (at least 3.5 years) we do have a gumps.vga

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sun Sep 15, 2019 2:15 pm

Damn. Apparently the spellbook and spell scrolls were fixed just after the version I have now (0.15.10, it contains the fixed spells but not the fixed spellbook and spell scrolls).
I can't use an updated version since that one was the last translated version in my language.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sun Sep 15, 2019 2:22 pm

I never played the game. I don't understand what happens if I have the spell fixed but the spellbook and spell scrolls are the originals.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:03 pm

Do I need to manually select the words of power in order to cast a spell or I just need to click on a spell and the game does the rest?
If so, no problem.

Alessandro · Post by **Alessandro** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:05 pm

Lastly, I have another question. The cursor speed seems very low, is that normal?

Post by **Dominus** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:09 pm

Nothing bad happens if you have the old graphics. it's just a nice touch that what you shout fits with what you click on.
I'd definitely use newer SI Fixes, since it has all the work missing done by Knight Captain

(the translated file shows that the usecode was compiled on April 2014 -> https://github.com/exult/exult/commits/ ... 5D=sifixes changelog of SI Fixes)

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:16 pm

What about the bad cursor speed?

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:19 pm

It looks laggy. But the rest of the games seems to run smoothly.
Any way to fix it?

Alessandro Furgiuele · Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:20 pm

*game

Post by **Dominus** » Mon Sep 16, 2019 3:45 am

Cursor speed? You mean when you use the arrow keys movement?
And please do not lump everything in one topic

Alessandro Furgiuele · Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:35 am

I'm sorry for that. If I'll have other issues I will create new topics.
Anyway I mean the movement of the mouse in game looks laggy.

Post by **Dominus** » Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:38 am

Hmm, haven't noticed that. This is likely caused by mouse driver settings and/or running Exult at an too high in game resolution

Alessandro Furgiuele · Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:59 am

It's still playable, it's not so bad actually. I was just thinking if maybe there's some option to change the mouse speed.
Any way I guess I can deal with it

Alessandro Furgiuele · Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:33 pm

Anyway I play on 1280x960 Hg3x

Alessandro Furgiuele · Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:00 pm

I also play in fullscreen and I have the fast mouse option disabled, because when enabled it goes worst.

Post by **Dominus** » Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:03 pm

I know that some Logitech mouse drivers had some speed setting for cursor in games and that was not playing well with Exult and other SDL games. So see if you can enable or disable something in the drivers.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:56 am

It's the scaler (and the resolution). If I change scaler (the Hg is the heavier, I guess) it goes smoother.
I wonder: it's my PC who can't handle it or it's just the scaler being too heavy (bad optimized)?

Post by **Dominus** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:53 pm

You can see how much CPU power Exult uses.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:38 pm

It's not more than 30%...

Alessandro Furgiuele · Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:39 pm

Do you guys use Hg2x or Hg3x? How do they run on your system?

Gotcha! · Post by **Gotcha!** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:28 am

I don't use those scalers. I like my pixels pixely.

Alessandro Furgiuele · Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:22 pm

Hq3x I think it's the best, looks almost as a remastered lol
Anyway it's too heavy, but I switched to Hq2x with 800x600 and it seems fine to me.

Post by **Dominus** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:09 pm

The scalers are a taste thing

Personally I like the Brx ones better.

The higher the resolution in game (if you don't use the default 320x200, but AUTO) the more the game lags.