Author Topic: Been meaning to post this Text issue.....  (Read 322 times)

Offline WMLute

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Been meaning to post this Text issue.....
« on: June 13, 2006, 04:14:10 PM »
ctrl i so you can see your FPS.

Pull up the Text Buffer and hold down a single key until it starts auto-repeating.

Watch FPS drop.

OR fill up the text buffer, then hold down backspace and delete it out.

Watch FPS drop.

Thought it was only me until I had a squaddie try it.  He dropped a good 20fps, so I had a few others try it, and all reported a pretty big drop in FPS.

I also drop 20ish FPS when doing this.  Been like this over a year ish.

Skuzzy?? Anyone??
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Offline Mister Fork

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Been meaning to post this Text issue.....
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 01:39:57 PM »
Sounds like you have a keyboard attached to a PS2 port.  Is that the case?
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Been meaning to post this Text issue.....
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2006, 02:27:54 PM »
I moved this out of the bug report section as it really is not a bug.

Keyboard input generates an interrupt, which interrupts the game loop.  Auto-repeat generates enough interrupts the game loop cannot complete as fast so FPS drops.
Backspace is even worse, as there is no functionality in DirectX which actually moves the caret backwards and removes the character from the screen.
That is all done in game code.
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