Freddy Pharkas timing problem

misterix · Post by **misterix** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:32 am

I've been playing Freddy Pharkas, but there is obviously a timing bug in Act 2. When I'm making the formula to cure the Horse gas, the old man narrator tells me that I took too long to cure the problem and I get a game over screen. How do I slow down the game clock speed in scummvm so I have time to cure the town?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 6:47 am

Please file a bug report, including all the necessary data of your system, how to reproduce this, and a saved game. Check our FAQ on how to do this:
http://www.scummvm.org/faq.php#question.report-bugs

Red_Breast · Post by **Red_Breast** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:48 pm

I vaguely recall you have to do it in a certain amount of time and had no problems with it during SCI testing.
Are you saying that you know it's timed but that it's still too quick?

misterix · Post by **misterix** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 5:06 am

It's definitely too quick I used the walkthrough and did everything right away and there is still not enough time to get it done.

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:10 pm

All SCI1.1 games still have timing issues.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:20 pm

MusicallyInspired wrote:All SCI1.1 games still have timing issues.

That's quite a statement. Which ones, and where?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:20 pm

misterix wrote:It's definitely too quick I used the walkthrough and did everything right away and there is still not enough time to get it done.

Please file a bug report, including instructions on how to reproduce this, as well as a savegame. Check here:
http://www.scummvm.org/faq.php#question.report-bugs

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:54 pm

Oh, nothing game breaking. But I've noticed that plenty animations still seem to be governed by the host machine's clock speed and therefore run much to quickly compared to the SCI10 game's support which has the game speed in check (but would run equally as over sped-up were they running natively on a fast computer). For instance, the animation at the beginning of SQ5 when the training simulator opens up and the "space rats" run away. Little things like that.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:48 pm

MusicallyInspired wrote:Oh, nothing game breaking. But I've noticed that plenty animations still seem to be governed by the host machine's clock speed and therefore run much to quickly compared to the SCI10 game's support which has the game speed in check (but would run equally as over sped-up were they running natively on a fast computer). For instance, the animation at the beginning of SQ5 when the training simulator opens up and the "space rats" run away. Little things like that.

Just had a look at SQ5. At a first glance, it appears it's not starting a machine speed test on startup like the other games. If this is the case, it might calculate machine speed in some other way.