Broken Sword 1 & 2 is running slow

subcetra · Post by **subcetra** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 2:39 pm

Hey when the character walk somewhere I point its going super slow. But when he starts interacting with someone/something it goings in normal speed. In BS2 its moving a little faster. Feels like its laggy. I'm using HTC desire. Anyone know what's wrong? Some wrong settings or something?

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:55 pm

Any walking, or just walking where the screen starts scrolling? Scrolling, of course, causes a lot more redrawing, i.e. it's a lot more work. (Particularly in Broken Sword 2, I believe, since it outputs extra frames to make the scrolling smoother, rather than running at the usual 12 frames per second that the rest of the animation does. Broken Sword 1 probably does too, but I don't think it's quite as aggressive about it.)

But I don't know if that's enough to explain slowdowns; I've only used ScummVM on desktop computers myself.

subcetra · Post by **subcetra** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:33 pm

anytime i walk its slows down. i can understand it slows down when the screen scrolls but it shouldn't do it when im only walking. Maby the phone cant handle it..?

adiro69 · Post by **adiro69** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:08 am

using the version from this thread , on LG P500 with a 600MHz CPU it seems not to be slow.

czikus · Post by **czikus** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:16 pm

I'm using the version from:
http://sites.google.com/site/scummvmandroid/dev
and I have exactly the same problem on HTC Desire with the main character moving very slowly (when the rest of the scene is static).

dhewg · Post by **dhewg** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:36 pm

subcetra and czikus: please install "glinfo" from the market. it will collect infos about the GPU capabilities. you can send the infos straight from that app, please mail that to dhewg@wiibrew.org and i try to hunt this down

da1writer · Post by **da1writer** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:35 am

Have you tried this unofficial version, has tons of options at your finger tops and alot of games that ran slow/ had problems are fixed. Kings Quest IV windows version ran really slow on the official version of Scumm VM but runs fantastic on this unofficial version. Check it out!

http://anddev.at.ua/load/scummvm_svn55436/1-1-0-7

Lubomyr · Post by **Lubomyr** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:38 pm

Andre (dhewg) already fixed that problem.
With latest official dev-build, game speed are fine.
http://buildbot.scummvm.org/snapshots/m ... st.tar.bz2

dhewg · Post by **dhewg** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:32 pm

see here. please confirm if its indeed fixed.

materinho · Post by **materinho** » Tue May 03, 2011 5:50 pm

dhewg, i see you are the right person to ask this questions, but any answer will be welcome... Here are my questions:

1. I have HTC Desire 2.2. Which version of scummvm will be best fo it?
2.Is it installation simple as for any other app (just install .apk), or I should copy/install some additional files?
3. In scummvm there is options for video, sound etc. Is it best to leave it on default?

4. What is purpose of this file: scummvm-engine-sword1.apk ?

I know my questions are silly, but i tried to install and play broken sword, and it is really lagy when character walks. So i dont know is it normal or not... Im complete beginner and my knowledge about this things are minimal, but my enthusiasm is max... Please help me, thanks in advance...

dhewg · Post by **dhewg** » Mon May 09, 2011 6:54 pm

use a nightly build. install scummvm.apk and scummvm-engine-word1.apk for broken sword 1 support. then copy the game to your sd card, and you should be able to add it via the scummvm launcher.
the settings are okay per default, see README.Android for a short description and adapt those to your liking.