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Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

First time I've used CMUD recently and I'm sure 1.25 seems incredibly slow. Redrawing text seems flickery and laggy, scrolling suffers the same. Just doesn't feel slick at all.
It might be just me, maybe I need to check my display drivers etc.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Same blazing-fast speed for me as in 1.24 and earlier. Load up time is horribly slow due to a few tricks Zugg had to use regarding layouts, but not really any different than 1.24.

Adept Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 246

I agree with Matt, in that load up seems to tak a bit longer. As far as using the program in general I think my biggest speed issue is with the mapper and stepping/confirming room descriptions causing some slow down (or actual non-functionality), but I'm thinking that is likely a result of poor setup on my end or possibly some patches zugg worked in to maintain mapper functionality on a temporary basis. Fast walking works well, login works well, scripts execute quickly (as far as I can tell with the neked eye). About the only other speed issue that I can see, is in a script that I have where I'm loading over 1000 item names into a stringlist variable, 3 times in the same script. This one takes a few minutes to run, but I believe that's because of a hardware problem I have (I think my processor is partially damaged due to overheating).

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

guinn i remember someone else talking about that problem and it was an option in the config that determined speed of refresh/scrolling something like that.. Afraid i cant put my brain on the right word this second.

For me its just a bit longer on load up time. Course i am still porting my more complex scripts

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:12 pm

The loading of packages has not yet been optimized fully for speed or for package size. However, CMUD will probably never load as fast as zMUD since zMUD saved settings to a binary stream file, which made reading the stream directly into memory really fast. Unfortunately, this is also what caused zMUD settings to get easily corrupted. So with the design feature of not having corrupted settings files, there is no way to ever load as fast as zMUD.

However, the rest of the speed is faster in all of my various testing. If text redrawing is laggy, then something else is wrong. Check to make sure you don't have any evil #WAIT triggers or anything like that. And check your Refresh Amount setting. I removed this from the user interface because it caused too many problems for people who were changing it. But you can check it using the "#SHOW %pref(RefreshNum)" command. It should be set to 6. You can change it using this functions second parameter if you need to.

The only speed problem I have seen is with moving between rooms in the AutoMapper. I think one of the Microsoft MDAC/ADO updates caused that, and we'll have to live with it until I convert the mapper to use SQL.