Midi lags the game.

[chrilley]

I sure post alot of questions around here. Sry 'bout that. -.-

I'm making a catch-the-falling-balls kinda game.I've added 3 midi files for the purpose of various music playing instead of only 1 that loops forever. So I've got an event that goes:

When music isn't playing -> "Set Global Value A random(2)"

And then some other events:

Global Value = 0 -> "play music x"
Global Value = 1 -> "play music x2"
Global Value = 2 -> "play music x3"

All of them also has a "Only one action when event loops" condition so that I won't be starting the song 300 times a sec or something.

The thing is... when the midi is about to play, the game stops for like 1-2 secs. It's really killing the gameplay when one song ends and another is about to start.

/Chris - The guy with too many questions...

[Pancra]

well, I sure don't have the answer.
But if it makes you feel better...the same happens to me.

[LazyCoder]

Hmmm, I thought they fixed this... A workaround is to have your midi files external and play them with the direct show object.

[Stian_B]

Yes,play them external,thats help.Same happened in MMF 1.5.
Something with windows to do.But MMF 2 is a bit slower to start to play the midis,than MMF 1.5.Yves know about the problem,I guess.

[izac]

That's midi for you. Midi isn't ment to be played as a song.

It was orignally designed for carrying notes for use with Cubase, Fruity loops, etc.

Overall midi is... rubbish.

Use real audio - or something that IS designed to play. EG:Mod, mp3, ogg, wav(No compression so big filesize), etc.

Isaac

[joewski]

I just ran a test, using "Music "FOSTER" has stopped playing and played another midi file.

I found the second midi file refused to start playing and the application paused.

I can confirm this is a bug in MMF2 runtime R242. The midi being loaded internally should run a lot smoother IMHO not hang for 5 seconds or more the application.

[Francois]

This would change anything. It is not possible with Windows to play a midi file from memory (it would impply to rewrite a midi reader). So the internal file has to be saved in a temporary folder and played as a file, inducing the delay. THis is not a bug.

[Sphax]

And it's not possible to play the file in a different thread ? If this is the case, the application will not pause during the midi loading.

[chrilley]

Does it save all the including midi in the temporary folder at the start of the application or exactly when the music is called?

[Francois]

I do not know, you must ask Yves.