Test for Rob, Leon, MapMan

[VernJensen]

For any experiencing slowdowns when fullscreen: can you please try this?

www.actionsoft.com/files/temp/MidnightMansionSpeedFixtest.zip

Go fullscreen (or startup fullscreen), make sure it's performing badly, and then try pushing Command-G. Maybe try pushing it several times. You'll hear a system beep, but it'll briefly pause the game (half a second or so) if you do it mid-game. This is how you know it's doing something.

Anyway, I'm curious if this helps

fix

the slowdown problem. This does everything that toggling windowed -> fullscreen does, minus the actual toggle itself. Who knows, maybe it's not the toggle that fixes it, but something in this bit of code? Worth trying at least.

[RobSeegel]

Some interesting behavior... I need to try it out some more. I tried it with fullscreen a couple of times and nothing. In fact, in the past I've had more success starting with fullscreen - though it hasn't worked as well since the change you made in Beta3. I wasn't able to trigger it even once while I was in fullscreen.

However, when I started in windowed mode, and get to the mansion, I tried it. I see the screen flash (and hear the beep). Then go to fullscreen, and it worked. I did it five times in a row from windowed to fullscreen, just using it once each time (I quit out of the game each time for the test). Then I switched to a different mansion (Knight Mansion) and it didn't work the first time I tried it.

Pretty confounding...

[VernJensen]

To clarify, are you pushing Command-G before or after switching from windowed to fullscreen?

The intent was that you'd push it *after*. But if you're doing it before, and it sometimes helps, that's interesting (and unintended).

Does it ever fix it if you do it *after* you go fullscreen?

[RobSeegel]

3407100C28070C11070C620 wrote: To clarify, are you pushing Command-G before or after switching from windowed to fullscreen?

I did both. I started out trying it the way you asked. It wasn't working the way you hoped.

The intent was that you'd push it *after*. But if you're doing it before, and it sometimes helps, that's interesting (and unintended).

Yep, I realized that, which is why I started out doing the way you asked. It appeared to have no effect other than the beep.

When it wasn't working, I decided to play and try other things just in case rather than wait for new instructions. Since I don't completely understand the underlying changes, I had no preconceptions to rule out.

I figured it couldn't hurt. It puzzled me that it might work better that way. Earlier tests I'd done, seemed to indicate that starting out full screen was a more successful strategy. That wasn't what I found in this latest round.

Does it ever fix it if you do it *after* you go fullscreen?

No. Not for me - at least, not yet. I spent about a half on hour on it, maybe 45 min., and I'll probably spend some more time tomorrow. Can you create a version where you leave the CMD-G in there, but take out toggle you added?

[divadnala]

I've tried Command-G before and after switching from windowed to full screen in several mansions. It doesn't do anything (except beep).

The slow down problem is still the same. The only way I've been able to cure it is by toggling windowed to full screen - it usually takes two or more toggles to get it going properly. On one occasion in Falcon Manor even toggling didn't work and I had to quit and restart.

[VernJensen]

566B66576161636168040 wrote: Can you create a version where you leave the CMD-G in there, but take out toggle you added?

Actually the version with Command-G added already has Command-F modified to be the way it used to be -- one toggle only. So it's already taken out in that version.