Slow on PSP sometimes?

[wololo]

sandman423, I did a series of improvements recently to the SVN. Can you update (including your Res/graphics folder!!! ) and see if you still have the issues? I fixed most of the problems I was experiencing on my end, so I have good hopes this solved the major problems.

[goojamin]

I played a bit on r3788 last night and the slow down was definitely improved. I played 6 regular games, edited my deck and did some shopping at the card shop and checked out the trophy room a few times after unlocking new sets. At the end of the 6th game when the deck unlock screen came up it finally slowed to a crawl and I had to quit and reload (I assume the memory fragmentation finally caught up with me).

One question, on the deck unlock screen when the screen dims and the unlock message and money earned text comes up it seems to load a different play-field in the background than the one I had just been using (there seems to also be a decent delay after the end of the match and before this screen comes up and the cha-ching sound effect plays). I am using a profile named Mike (not the default one) and I have set it to use the gemstones theme. When the unlock message comes up it looks like it is loading the default wagic play-field in the background rather than just overlaying the play-field image I had just been playing on? Is this the intended behavoiour?

[wololo]

I played a bit on r3788 last night and the slow down was definitely improved. I played 6 regular games, edited my deck and did some shopping at the card shop and checked out the trophy room a few times after unlocking new sets. At the end of the 6th game when the deck unlock screen came up it finally slowed to a crawl and I had to quit and reload (I assume the memory fragmentation finally caught up with me).

This is still extremely disappointing. There used to be a time where you could play Wagic for 3h in a row without encountering a single problem...

One question, on the deck unlock screen when the screen dims and the unlock message and money earned text comes up it seems to load a different play-field in the background than the one I had just been using (there seems to also be a decent delay after the end of the match and before this screen comes up and the cha-ching sound effect plays). I am using a profile named Mike (not the default one) and I have set it to use the gemstones theme. When the unlock message comes up it looks like it is loading the default wagic play-field in the background rather than just overlaying the play-field image I had just been playing on? Is this the intended behavoiour?

I don't think this is the intended behavior.
By the way, can you try to play with the default theme? I also need to see if the gemstone theme could be causing your issues, or at least contributing to it.

[goojamin]

I will try tonight with the default theme and let you know how it goes.

[goojamin]

Hi Wololo,

Sorry for the delay getting back to you. Real life has gotten in the way of my wagic addiction

Today I did find a find a few hours to test SVN r3800 and can confirm I am still seeing the unusual behavior with the unlock screen when using the gemstones theme (which I really like btw). When using this theme when the screen dims and the unlock screen appears it reloads the battlefield graphics with the default theme images. By doing this there is a decent delay from when the game ends and the unlock screen and sound effect play. I have also tried playing with the default theme and it does not appear to reload anything and the delay from game end to display of the unlock screen seems notably quicker. If I have some time in the coming days I will try out some other themes and see if the same issue is present. Also as always this is on my trusty ram challenged psp1000.

Thanks again to all devs for the great program!

[wololo]

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'll investigate. We won't have a fix for Wagic 0.16, but hopefully I'll have time to fix this before next release

[goojamin]

Hi Wololo,

I was just playing a few games using the white shrine theme that comes with Wagic (on the same SVN revision as before) and I unlocked a new set but do not see the background changing image issue or slowdown when using this theme. Perhaps the issue is gemstone theme specific? I think the next time I have some time I will try the gemstone theme but will turn off the dynamic theme part (sorry I forget the actual term for this, it is the part that changes the colour based on the cards in the deck) and see if that makes any difference.

Thanks again, 0.16.1 is looking like it will be a really good release!