Closed y-lee closed 11 years ago
One thing to confirm: you're not using the Smoove or Retro rendering styles in Fallout.app, are you? These can have a significant impact on performance, especially in fullscreen.
I was indeed using Smoove, and turning it off in Fallout.app has brought the time down to 3 seconds. Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for figuring out the issue.
Glad the problem was something already known, rather than a new performance regression per se - though the Smoove filter's behaviour is undesirable in this instance and should be improved (it should just drop frames when it can't keep up, instead of painstakingly squeezing out every single one).
This is a continuation of a bug I reported to Alun via email. As others have reported, performance with GOG.com's Fallout for Mac (using the DOS version on Alun's new standalone Boxer code) is really slow. I found that extracting Fallout.app's gamebox and running it with full Boxer is much faster. As requested, here are my performance times for going from the main menu's Intro button to Brian Fargo's name appearing:
Fallout.app
Extracted Fallout gamebox on Boxer 1.3.2
Extracted Fallout gamebox on Boxer 1.4 prerelease
Also, the background wind sound effect during Fallout.app full screen's main menu has noticeable "pops" of static, especially when the mouse pointer is moving; presumably another artifact of whatever is causing the poor performance with the fades in this scenario.