New FoFiX 3.120 Final is horribly slow compared to FoFiX 3.100 Final

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(FoFiX 3.120 Full, Mac OSX, Python 2.6 + GL 3 -- all information on the
download page. I couldn't find other relevant information and my ini should
be included, so if you need to email me)

Is it just me, or does FoFiX run like a wagon with rusty wheels now?
Seriously, for all the razzle-dazzle of the new features the game seems to
have gotten so oppressively slow while you're actually trying to *play* it
that it's almost impossible to enjoy.

I was delighted when I heard FoFiX was updated but then my brother turned
me off it. I'm on a Mac and he runs a PC, a PC that I might add has much
better graphics handling capability than my simple MacBook. He told me that
it ran like hell and that it was barely playable. But I thought, "Could it
be true? Would it run even slower for me?" I had to find out.

Despite the grim warning I unzipped the file and started hastily playing
with its contents as though I were a child tearing open their biggest Xmas
present. I got a Guitar Hero 3 theme just like my brother, for the sake of
comparison. My conclusion? He was 100% bloody right!

While the player lobby is cute and all the other features are quite
enjoyable, the game runs *too freaking slow*. Even set to Pure Speed under
quickset with all manner of advanced options tinkered with just to see what
I could do to fix the problem (including, I don't know, trying the bloody
horrid Uberlight theme), it still runs like it just tore itself out of bed
after sleeping for two years.

I turned off star power (by choice and not necessity, though I bet I would
have had to regardless) and I even removed those irritating BPM lines by
replacing them with transparent boxes just so they could stop gumming up
the works. But it was all for naught as the simple fact is, when the notes
start falling the game starts lagging! And this isn't the irritating
skip-lag, but it is the slow-down lag that is almost as bad.

Before, I could do all sorts of fun things like a full Co-op Jurgen +
Jurgen FC run of DragonForce's "The Fire Still Burns," complete with
lag-inducing solos, and I could even track note charts full of insane BS
that had no accuracy to the song, implementing breakneck up and down five
fret HOPO-less chords just to make sure Jurgen knew I was directly trying
to make him fail. After merrily FCing my song (with LITTIE TO NO LAG) he
presumably ran off for tea and I could only sit dumbstruck.

The comparison? Well I certainly wouldn't want to try that again or the
game might freaking crash! It's not Jurgen playing, it's more like Jurgen's
nanny, and I can't even play a legitimate song like Guitar Hero 3's
"Reptilia" without the game having a minor seizure! I will say again that I
appreciate the new features, but this is bloody ridiculous.

So, after all this presented, we can conclude that 1: it isn't a computer
problem (my computer handled 3.100 just fine), 2: it isn't a graphics
processor problem (my brother had the same issues), and 3: it isn't an OS
problem either (go to 2). I want to go easy on you FoFiX-makers because
lord knows I couldn't do what you're doing, and I'm indescribably grateful
for FoFiX even existing at all, but I sincerely hope you address this
rather imposing gameplay issue soon. It's hard to be grateful for the game
when it's nearly unplayable.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sky...@earthlink.net on 20 Oct 2009 at 9:16

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Before writing The Great American Novel, try the 2.4 package. For some, the
performance is much better.

Original comment by lysdestic@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2009 at 11:15

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*Sigh* What 2.4? I'm on the Mac! Point taken though, I just wanted to let off 
steam.
I will try the other package though, but the 2.4 isn't on Mac.

Original comment by sky...@earthlink.net on 20 Oct 2009 at 11:34

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Heh, sorry about that. Throughout the skimming I missed the fact you were 
running on
Mac. (Perhaps this explains why short and simple is best...)

In any case, the 2.5 running with the older PYOpenGL should show some kind of
increase - I cannot gurantee how much, however, considering that my experience 
is
with Linux.

Also, my Novel bit was a poor attempt at humour, not an insult.

Original comment by lysdestic@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2009 at 11:47

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Honestly? My post was a poor attempt at humour as well, but at least it seems 
to have
fixed the problem. It doesn't run perfectly but I can fix that. The other 
package
does the trick for the most part, so I'll leave it at that.

Original comment by sky...@earthlink.net on 21 Oct 2009 at 4:05

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Good to know. :)

Original comment by lysdestic@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 6:09

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