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a developer wrote:If you can reproduce it while running from gdb, then you can kill it with ctrl+c in the gdb terminal, then run "bt" to get a backtrace from the spot where you interrupted it. I think you can also do "continue" to continue execution, so with a few backtraces you can get a good idea what the loop is.
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I don't know about Linux versions, but I'd probably try the 1.12.1 version just because.
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Actually when I move my scouts their movements get Jerky, while when I play with the previous versions of BFW (1.8 and 1.10) it works perfectly and "unit runnings" are very smooth.

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Sorry for the double post, but I discovered that disabling the fog helps a lot for the jerky cavalry movement, I just wonder why in version 1.10 series of the game the movements are smooth.
What was changed btw 1.10 and 1.12 series that caused this decrease in animation performance, especially with cavalry.
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@Yomar

What you could test is turning the minimap off, that means toggeling 'Draw Terrain' and 'Draw Villages' off (the buttons below the minimap)
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Hello. My Wesnoth used to run fine, but suddenly one day the unit animations started moving REALLY slowly. Every time I move a unit it pauses for half a second on each tile of movement. I`ve tried changing the animation speed, putting the graphics to the lowest possible level, deleting all my saves, restarting the cpu and reinstalling the game, all to no avail.

CPU specs:
-2 GB of RAM
-1.70 ghz processor
-Windows 7 Lite OS
-Wesnoth generally uses about 200 mb of RAM
-I`m using the latest stable version of Wesnoth.

Please help!
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My version of Wesnoth is 1.12.5

Thnak you!
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That sounds like it has to be caused by something that's changed on your system. You sure there's nothing else suddenly hogging up your RAM and/or that you didn't install any OS or driver updates between when it last worked ok and when it slowed down?
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1.13.7 runs so slow while 1.12.6 runs ok. Plus, I can´t play LotI at all in 1.13.7 due to WML an LUA problems... but it runs ok in 1.12.6...
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Hello, i got a substantial performance problem with newest version of Wesnoth.
1.13.8 version I downloaded to run new versions of certain campaigns that only update under 1.13 runs very badly on my OS compared to 1.12 and previous versions.

Map scrolling and unit movements are not fluid like in 1.12 and it feels like the game has very low framerates overall.
Is there any graphical option I can check or is it a compatibility problem? I run Vista sp2 32bit, trying to find a Win7 code to upgrade as I don't have budget for new OS.
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1.13 is known to currently be performing poorly.
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It's being worked on though. I'm using the development version, and it's working a lot better for me than the original 1.13.8 was. You should try again with 1.13.9 when it comes out.
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BFW 1.13.10, works decently, not like the 1.12.6 release, but with effects off its acceptable, but with all effects on, it becomes jerky even on a relatively powerfull laptop.

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Game in general takes very long to execute moves. Less frames. Problem consist over several saves and new games. Disabling animations (especially water animations) does improve performance a bit, but still annoyingly slow. Game doesn't use up more CPU or Ram than normal.

Wesnoth 1.13.10
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16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 2.6 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 965M

Possible Fix: Roll back to an older NVIDIA driver.
I rolled back to 388.59 from 388.71 and it worked fine (besides animations, which still would slow the game)
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Post by Voidhymn »

Hi there, sorry that my first post here is a performance gripe, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting the Steam version of Wesnoth to run smoothly. Every 10-20 seconds or so my performance drops dramatically. Scrolling becomes extremely jerky, and sound and music exhibit stuttering and popping consistent with audio buffer under-runs. Not sure what the cause is, but I have a relatively beefy system, so was surprised to say the least, given that I was able to play prior versions on pretty ancient hardware without much bother.

EDIT: I should add that this happens regardless of whether or not I disable unit / map animations.

For reference I'm playing the Windows Steam 1.14.0 build on Windows 10, with an AMD Ryzen 1600x, 32gb DDR4 RAM, and an Nvidia GTX 1070.
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