Opened 19 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#2241 closed defect (fixed)
MI2 VGA: Part of the music seems to die intermittently
| Reported by: | SF/dfabulich | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
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| Cc: | Game: | Monkey Island 2 |
Description
At apparently random intervals, part of the music, but not all of the music, seems to die off. I can't find a perfectly reliable way to reproduce this. (It looks a lot like bug 1315950... I was tempted to just confirm it as a duplicate, but I figured I'd file it separately and let the developers decide whether it's a real bug or not.)
I've attached a save game that seems to nearly reliably reproduce it. It's just as you're falling into the underground tunnels near Big Whoop. Feel around for the light switch and then Use it. Click through the conversation with LeChuck and eventually you'll be on your own, but the music will be almost silent; you'll hear a little percussion or a couple of instruments in the background, but not the full ensemble. (This doesn't happen every time, though! :-p)
I'm using MI2 VGA Floppy with Windows XP, ScummVM 0.8.0CVS (Oct 11 2005 19:21:40). Features compiled in: Vorbis FLAC MP3 zLib MPEG2
Ticket imported from: #1324103. Ticket imported from: bugs/2241.
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Change History (16)
by , 19 years ago
| Attachment: | monkey2.s04 added |
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comment:1 by , 19 years ago
Yet another iMUSE bug. Lowering priority until we have someone with time to dig into iMUSE.
comment:2 by , 19 years ago
| Priority: | normal → low |
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comment:3 by , 19 years ago
Or it could be that pitch wheel change I made. I've changed it - again - so that it only centers the pitch wheels on unload if the engine has specifically asked for it. Could you try the next ScummVM snapshot and see if you can still reproduce the bug?
comment:4 by , 19 years ago
That apparently seemed to fix my "nearly reproducible" save. I'll do another run through soon to see if it crops up again (since the problem was occurring unpredictably).
comment:7 by , 19 years ago
Today's CVS seems mostly better, but not all the way. Music transitions (e.g. on Scabb moving from room to room) seem a little flakey... hard to reproduce reliably (it's more frequent if you play in fast mode, so I tried hard to get it to happen at normal speed), but I've attached one save towards endgame that always works. Load up the save and leave Woodtick; ALL the music will cut out. It will return when you go somewhere else (e.g. swamp.) Using ScummVM 0.8.0CVS (Oct 16 2005 19:58:34), Features compiled in: Vorbis FLAC MP3 zLib MPEG2.
comment:8 by , 19 years ago
Well, fast mode is documented in the README as being not entirely reliable...
comment:9 by , 19 years ago
In this particular savegame, it's already playing the wrong music - the music for one of the houses (Wally's?) - rather than the outdoors music. That's probably what's confusing it when you leave town.
Anyway, unless the problems also happen at normal speed, I don't think it's a ScummVM bug really. It's probably more a case of stressing the iMUSE system in ways it wasn't meant to be stressed.
comment:10 by , 19 years ago
It absolutely does happen when not in fast mode. In the provided Oct 18 save game, I made sure that I never used Fast mode in the entire game, and never pressed ESC to skip anything (I did make ample use of '.' to accelerate dialogue, but that's it).
Fast mode makes it easier to reproduce, but I think the point is that iMuse will randomly (infrequently) hiccup, and that Fast mode is a good way to stress it to highlight the error.
comment:11 by , 12 years ago
We had some changes to the iMuse part priority code recently, might this be related?
comment:12 by , 12 years ago
If this is the same as #1315950 then it should be fixed. We did have a regression from another bug fix which sometimes caused certain sound commands to get removed from the command queue without being executed.
comment:13 by , 11 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:14 by , 11 years ago
I'm just going to close this as hopefully-fixed since it's been more than two years. Feel free to complain loudly if you disagree!
save as you're falling into the tunnels.