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Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:25 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:32 pm
by Knight Captain
Are you editing the one in your User folder?
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:34 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
Yes
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:24 am
by Dominus
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 2:24 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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
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Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:47 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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?
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:45 am
by Dominus
The scaler doesn't matter, but please do the steps.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:48 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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)
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Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:01 am
by Dominus
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
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:57 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
Keep up the great work! You guys are awesome, what you created and still do today is something amazing for the videogame media
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Thank you very much.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:17 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 4:42 pm
by Knight Captain
What/where are these patched versions? It should be fine to use and have no impact on the game speed.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:36 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:01 pm
by Knight Captain
As long as they are done correctly in terms of dimensions and such, yes.
Do you have a link handy?
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:22 am
by Dominus
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:14 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:16 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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")
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:18 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
The "Traduzione" (Translation) contains the patched files
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:40 am
by Dominus
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
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 2:15 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 2:22 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:03 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:05 pm
by Alessandro
Lastly, I have another question. The cursor speed seems very low, is that normal?
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:09 pm
by Dominus
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
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(the translated file shows that the usecode was compiled on April 2014 ->
https://github.com/exult/exult/commits/ ... 5D=sifixes changelog of SI Fixes)
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:16 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
What about the bad cursor speed?
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:19 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
It looks laggy. But the rest of the games seems to run smoothly.
Any way to fix it?
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:20 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
*game
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 3:45 am
by Dominus
Cursor speed? You mean when you use the arrow keys movement?
And please do not lump everything in one topic
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Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:35 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:38 am
by Dominus
Hmm, haven't noticed that. This is likely caused by mouse driver settings and/or running Exult at an too high in game resolution
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:59 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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
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Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:33 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
Anyway I play on 1280x960 Hg3x
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:00 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
I also play in fullscreen and I have the fast mouse option disabled, because when enabled it goes worst.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:03 pm
by Dominus
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:56 am
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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)?
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:53 pm
by Dominus
You can see how much CPU power Exult uses.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:38 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
It's not more than 30%...
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:39 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
Do you guys use Hg2x or Hg3x? How do they run on your system?
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:28 am
by Gotcha!
I don't use those scalers. I like my pixels pixely.
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Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:22 pm
by Alessandro Furgiuele
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.
Re: Fps speed gets reverted everytime I restart Exult
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:09 pm
by Dominus
The scalers are a taste thing
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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.