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"Ghost moves"
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:41 am
by milsu
When I am longer in the game, like more than 500 turns, and especially if there are railroads, at the beginning of a new turn, I see "ghost moves", which are replayed AI moves from the previuos turn. They completely block my computer, for a minute or a two, until they are over, and I can play again.
I've got Freeciv 2.6.2 (GTK+3 client), and Windows 10.
Re: "Ghost moves"
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:11 am
by cazfi
How do you know that they are ghost moves from the previous turn, and not real AI moves of the current turn?
Re: "Ghost moves"
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:53 am
by milsu
cazfi wrote:How do you know that they are ghost moves from the previous turn, and not real AI moves of the current turn?
Because I use "all players alternate movement". When it is my turn, I see animations from the previous turn repeating.
Re: "Ghost moves"
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 6:59 pm
by Hans Lemurson
I wonder if maybe they are moves whose animations were queued up during the AI's turn, and are only just being displayed because of the accumulated animation time from all the units moving was longer than the AI's turn calculations?
Re: "Ghost moves"
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:31 pm
by louis94
Hans Lemurson wrote:I wonder if maybe they are moves whose animations were queued up during the AI's turn, and are only just being displayed because of the accumulated animation time from all the units moving was longer than the AI's turn calculations?
AFAIK animations are not queued, they play right when the packet is parsed and block the parsing.
Re: "Ghost moves"
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:35 pm
by cazfi
louis94 wrote:AFAIK animations are not queued, they play right when the packet is parsed and block the parsing.
Not true for 2.6 and later gtk3* clients.
Re: "Ghost moves"
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:12 pm
by Corbeau
cazfi wrote:louis94 wrote:AFAIK animations are not queued, they play right when the packet is parsed and block the parsing.
Not true for 2.6 and later gtk3* clients.
Only gtk? Not QT?
Re: "Ghost moves"
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:32 pm
by cazfi
Corbeau wrote:cazfi wrote:louis94 wrote:AFAIK animations are not queued, they play right when the packet is parsed and block the parsing.
Not true for 2.6 and later gtk3* clients.
Only gtk? Not QT?
I think so. That's a new "frame by frame" (only max one new frame displayed in a round of client main loop, not entire animation) animation mode. For gtk3- and gtk3.22-client it had to be implement as old mode doesn't work with gtk+-3 design. I'm 97% certain it has not been enabled (or even implemented) for Qt-client.
Re: "Ghost moves"
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:56 pm
by FreeWilly
If you allow me the word, my impression is that some work on improvements have rendered application degeneration, which is not really an unknown phenomenon. For instance GTK versions didn't have rendering problems in the past, now they have. I also notice "ghost moves" and I don't think they are enjoyable. If you implement new technology the results have to be evaluated. For instance if there is a queuing happening, then you may need to synchronise other tasks in order to avoid bad synchronicity.