Long freeze during load

[Andrew Pam]

When loading a game, the system appears to freeze (including the mouse cursor!) for a long time. This is very poor UI design and could lead to unnecessary reboots when users are not expecting this behaviour. Some sort of indication would be helpful.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Thanks for the report.

Could you provide some more information, please?

Has this always been an issue with the game, or just this version? Typically how long does the game take to load up on your system? What spec is your system? How long is the mouse frozen? What is happening while the game loads, just a normal desktop but with frozen inputs? Or a blank screen?

I do not have this issue with wesnoth 1.0-1 (Breezy).

Thanks again.

[Andrew Pam (xanni)]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:25:14AM -0000, Phil Bull wrote:
> Has this always been an issue with the game, or just this version?

This has always been an issue with the game, on several different PCs.

> Typically how long does the game take to load up on your system?

Around 73 seconds on the first load, 2-3 seconds on subsequent loads.

> What spec is your system?

Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.3GHz, 512M RAM, 1.5G swap, 60G HDD with 1.5G free.

> How long is the mouse frozen?

The entire load time (up to 73 seconds.)

> What is happening while the game loads, just a normal desktop but with
> frozen inputs? Or a blank screen?

The Wesnoth game load selection screen remains as it was the instant
"OK" was selected, the music continues to play, and when the game is not
in fullscreen mode the desktop cursor continues to operate normally,
but the Wesnoth cursor is frozen and the window does not refresh (for
example on a virtual desktop switch.)

> I do not have this issue with wesnoth 1.0-1 (Breezy).

I am also using wesnoth 1.0-1 (Breezy).

Regards,
 Andrew
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[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Thanks for your report. I am almost sure this issue has been solved since in newer versions of Wesnoth. If this occurs again, please reopen.