[Scummvm-devel] SCUMMVM suddenly very slow

[Torbjorn.E.Andersson at personec.com]

David Given wrote:

> I've just tried firing up ScummVM again, wanting to replay some old games, and 
> have discovered that to my horror it's now horribly, catastrophically slow. 
> It's so slow I can see the ScummVM redrawing bits of the screen; a full 
> refresh takes about 500ms.

I haven't heard of anything like that before, though I've never used the Debian
packages either.

The only things I can think of that would slow down ScummVM are fancy graphics
filters and fancy sound emulation. When it comes to graphics, even my 450 MHz
PII can handle hq3x in most cases for 320x200 games, so we can probably
discount that.

As for fancy sound emulation, Adlib shouldn't be a problem. Fluidsynth might be,
and I'm told the MT-32 emulator needs more hardware (not to mention data files)
than I have.

I assume you did check that it was ScummVM and not some other process that was
sucking up the precious CPU cycles?

Torbjörn Andersson