Game Speed

[Danial]

Using a video capture program, I just worked out that my Geoscape is running at 53fps! (Windows CE version)

 

This speed is bareable, but I remember playing the DOS version a year or so ago and it was running in hyperdrive. It was so fast that I couldn't even play the game. I small movement of the mouse in the Battlescape would find you across the other side of the map!

[Fishfins]

I still have problems with the Geoscape buttons being over-sensitive, and pressing any of the movement buttons would spin the earth around like a geography-class globe. Then I discovered you could right-click.

[kai]

I always have speed problems with the game. Many thanks to the real programmers of days gone by who figured out that a loop set to run for a set number of iterations on CPU with a certain clock speed could simulate a 1 second delay. Unfortunately clock speeds moved on. Bad Coding!