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Title: Brief freezes when voices play
Post by: Objekt on December 17, 2014, 09:00:12 am

I'm finding it a bit hard to believe no one else has ever had this issue, but...couldn't find anything, so here's the capsule summary: sometimes, when a voice clip needs to play (say, announcing the arrival of a new group of fighters), the game freezes briefly while this is happening.

It's very very very irritating.  Sometimes I get blown up because of it, for example if I'm in the middle of a dogfight.  It's as if the game freezes while the sound is starting to play, then suddenly "catches up," with all the things that should have happened during the freeze, occurring all at once.

I've had this problem in one other, older game, Comanche Gold, so I'm wondering if it's related to some kind of OS issue.

FWIW I'm running Windows 8.1 and using wxlauncher to play SCP.  So far the only mod I've tried is FSPort 3.4, maybe it's an issue specific to FSPort?

What log files could I post or other diagnoses could I perform to help figure out the problem?

Title: Re: Brief freezes when voices play
Post by: LHN91 on December 17, 2014, 09:05:16 am

I may be corrected on this, but it sounds like the game is halting when loading sound from the hard drive.

There should be a setting in the launcher to force the game to preload the audio on mission load, which may help with this issue.

Title: Re: Brief freezes when voices play
Post by: Objekt on December 17, 2014, 09:09:42 am

Yes, -snd_preload is turned on but I still get these freezes.

Is anyone *not* getting these freezes?

Title: Re: Brief freezes when voices play
Post by: LHN91 on December 17, 2014, 10:03:13 am

Let's start with what others will most certainly ask: We'll want a debug log. Instructions on how to create this are in this post: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=56279.msg1180359#msg1180359 (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=56279.msg1180359#msg1180359)

I honestly don't remember encountering these freezes, but then again I haven't played FSO in a few months.

Hopefully someone else can step in and provide more information.

Title: Re: Brief freezes when voices play
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on December 17, 2014, 02:12:45 pm

Quote from: Objekt on December 17, 2014, 09:09:42 am

Is anyone *not* getting these freezes?

I'm not, and I've never heard of anyone getting them before, so you may be the first person to encounter this particular problem. Congratulations/condolences.

You should post a debug log like LHN91 said, though.