jrdennisoss wrote on 2022-04-19, 18:53:
[*] Cleans up major video artifacts in Man Enough.
Awesome 😀
jrdennisoss wrote on 2022-04-19, 18:53:
Hopefully I didn't break anything 😀
I have briefly re-checked all the 10 games - everything seems to be fine!
That is, just those good old known bugs. Like "Space Ace" not working, video not progressing in "The Horde" etc.
I think one bug is not yet listed in "Known Issues" though:
[*] The FPS sometimes drops to as low as 3. I thought that was because of using dosbox_heavydebug.exe, but no - it is the same with regular dosbox.exe. That happens for me in the first logo intro of "Man Enough" and in some scenes in "Return to Zork" (for example, when the doggie first appears on the farm).
jrdennisoss wrote on 2022-04-19, 18:53:
I want to soon look into getting things ported to DOSBox SVN trunk using SDL for the video mixing too which should help clean up the video quality a bit. Then after that, I will probably look into seeing what it takes to get things up on Windows 3.1 because I am itching to try out Psychotron. 😀
Great! Anxiously waiting 😀
jrdennisoss wrote on 2022-04-19, 18:53:
Good question... That number is the audio volume percent for the MPEG file being decoded. If you put 100, then the audio sample data in the MPEG file will not be modified and it will be played as-is. Going higher than 100 will amplify the MPEG sound and can certainly help with the exact scenario you described. However, if you go too high then the sound can start to distort with certain games.
Oh, indeed! I tried playing "The Horde" with audiolevel=250 - and the sound was distorted! I bet those are the same sound artifacts Bobbytoz reports about. Everything is fine though if I re-comment the audiolevel line. And it is still quiet or uneven in other games...
I think I will later try to play all the available parts of "Man Enough", but here is what I already see in the beginning of it:
1) The large artifacts are gone, but there are still a couple of distorted lines at the bottom of the picture. Do you think they could be cleaned up?
2) The sound volume is certainly incorrect in this game! That is, when I first meet Jerry, her first video ("Welcome", the one that did not have artifacts before) sounds fine, but the second video ("I am not buying that story", the one that had artifacts) is way too loud! The third video is fine again. Of course, if I lower the volume then the second video is fine, and the first one is too quiet etc.
jrdennisoss wrote on 2022-04-19, 18:53:
Are you sure it is an issue? I mean, it is all the same on the real hardware, and maybe there are even no subtitles to be displayed there at all? Of course, if there are some subtitles, so if it is not a 'feature' but an original bug, it would be very nice to fix it - but it is still not as critical as the crashes in "Entity".