New OXCE v6.4.2 is up.
2020-03-15
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MUCH MUCH faster alien hidden movement (regardless of alien movement speed setting)
- much faster player movement speed at higher player movement speed settings in Options (same as in year 2018 and earlier versions)
- (supposedly) more battery drain on laptops/phones (same as in year 2018) -- not confirmed; and not quantified
Download: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5258.0.htmlSome of you have already tried this version (it's been published via auto-update) and everybody so far reports big improvements and no side effects.
I'd like to ask everyone else for feedback as well.IMPORTANT:To benefit from speed improvements, you need the following settings in Options menu:
1. "
Advanced>FPS limit" must be
different than 0 (I recommend 60)
2a. Either use software rendering (Video>Display Filter = Disabled)
2b. Or use OpenGL rendering (for example Video>Display Filter = Raw*) AND also set
vSyncForOpenGL: false in
options.cfg file --- and just to repeat again,
DO NOT set "Advanced>FPS Limit" to 0!
This will make OXCE able to run at the same speed as in this video (OpenXcom version from year 2018):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjIrqlsJjQ0So that you have a benchmark to compare against.
Feedback is most welcome... positive and more importantly also negative.