First post, by Shalmendo
Okay, so Tekwar is a great game and all, but I miss the cutscenes!
Basically, all of the Tekwar cut-scenes are subject to SEVERE lag and stuttering to the point the movie is completely un-viewable and makes shatner's acting actually seem better then it really was.
So far, I've done alot of digging and gotten no real info except for one forum where somone asked similar, then their next post was 'oh fixed it' without any real indication of how.
The only real info I could find was somone mentioning in the dosbox channel logs that auto and max cycle options break the cutscenes, which is true.
By setting it to a manual cycle, of about 7,000 it seems to enable the scenes to play through nicely for the first couple. But after actually loading into the game world, the 7,000 cycles isn't enough so i have to pump it up to several times that amount, roughly 70,000 or so. However, on subsequent scenes, it's all horribly stuttery again and no amount of cycle adjustment fixes it. It's as if loading into the game world permanently breaks it.
Does anyone have any experience with this issue or fixing it? (IT doesn't look like dosbox is very active anymore, either, but i'm hoping I can get a fix for it somehow)
EDIT: Further testing has revealed that pumping the cycles too high during a single run causes the custscenes to break, not the loading into the gameworld. I was able to load into the gameworld without touching the cycles (Which left it horribly laggy) then aborted mission, but got yelled at by shatner in full framerate. So apparently, there's some kind of threshold where the cutscenes will stop rendering properly if the cycles go up too high, even if they're brought back down.
