SCUMM: Curse of Monkey Island - Stutter when interacting with items

[WDeranged]

I've noticed this issue for a few years and it's sometimes better and sometimes worse whenever I try a new update.

It's usually when Guybrush interacts with an item in the world, especially if there's going to be an animation but it can also just be him commenting on the item. The game will freeze (audio too) for a split second before the interaction happens.

Conversations can have several small hitches either after choosing dialogue or when a character is about to say something.

Often just walking between rooms can trigger a hitch but this is rarer.

I have also noticed it happening in other games. Usually ones that have a streaming soundtrack rather than midi.

Interestingly the libretro port has the same issue but much much worse. Maybe that will give someone a clue as to what's going on.

ScummVM 2.7.1
Windows 10
RTX 3080
Ryzen 5800x3D

[antoniou79]

Is it possible to provide some video of how this experience looks on your system?

I don't think I've noticed such stutter. Especially since you mention that the music freezes too.

Can you try with 2.8.0 (release version) as well?

If it happens more noticably in a specific scene, or before a specific interaction, please provide a save game file just before that, so we can test quickly!

[AndywinXp]

Any info about this would be worth gold; are you loading the game from an SSD? Or maybe a mechanical HDD?

[AndywinXp]

In the hope of stimulating an user response I'm closing this... I've ran through the game dozens of times during the last year and a half on three platforms and on the most recent builds and I couldn't reproduce it :(