Version 1.29

[entryway]

60fps is the top FPS Vavoom allows, I don't know if this will change in the future (but I don't see why this couldn't be increased).

I know vavoom has fps limit (72 for me)

The same test (32innail.wad map05 at the start) on p4 3.0 + Radeon 9600Pro:
vavoom - 7 fps
glboom-plus - 160

[Crimson Wizard]

Hmm, I have the same slowness. Map 05 , very first room: 1 fps without building GWA, 5-6 fps with GWA. But I also noticed that when you pause the game either by hitting Pause or calling ingame menu, fps raises up to 40-50. What can be a reason of this change? Something is not updated/drawn during pause, and that "something" cause that terrible slowdown then?

[Janis Legzdinsh]

It still renders the level, so this is not a problem then. It must be something in the gameplay code then. Will check it out.

[guydudeperson]

What happened to there being a master server?

[Edward850]

There is, but Jenis hasn't yet released how to get vavoom to talk to it, and nobody's hosting any servers to play on.

[guydudeperson]

I don't know the IP or how to host servers for Vavoom
One of us could try and get IDE's dev team to try and get it to support Vavoom
Does Vavoom launch multiplayer games like csDoom? If not then IDE cannot support it. I say use an internal browser(wink wink nudge nudge Janis )

[Edward850]

It does, somewhat. It's all there in the help file. Also the server dns for the master server is 'vavoom.servegame.com'.

[guydudeperson]

offtopic[I wonder if any Skulltag developers would wanna help with Vavoom's multiplayer development]

[Karnizero]

What's the minimum bandwidth to play Vavoom online?

[Janis Legzdinsh]

I'd say something like 10-20 kilobytes per second.

[troll]

While I agree that including the progs compiler in the game executable is a good idea - it would still be good to install precompiled progs and maybe cache the internal compiled code.

This would speed up game start on slower machines.

I am finding that starting the game can take a few minutes at the moment.

[Edward850]

For those of you who want to play online:
I have made a quick suggestion to Janis, other then asking him to compile a Linux build for the master server, because I find windows unreliable for hosting servers, for a tool that will allow me to alias IP's that the master server returns so I can not only list my own local ones (so the master server doesn't return a local IP... yuck), but also allow me to ban abusers.
If someone hosts a server thats completely off its edge (mostly unwanted server names), I could filter it out by using an alias to physically make the server unpingable to clients via nulling its IP.