Question: are the animated scenes supposed to be kinda stop motion, or does my computer just suck?
I know my pc is weak, but it can handle most animated Renpy VNs without issue. For some reason, ripples here seems to be the only one that really pushes its graphical limits.
Other than that, fantastic game and I'm looking forward to the rest.
I've got a vivobook 15. Its... I'd say around a 2018 budget model. It can run most VNs but the only one that actually gives me issue is this one. The Headmaster is a little glitch, but not full stop motion like ripples.
I'll be updating to a newer model in a few months. Here's hoping the issue is fixed then (either my old laptop or the games files, whichever it is).
The same also happens to me with Black Magic. The game used to run fine even on my old potato PC, but after a certain point in the story it starts lagging terribly.
Only games that do this are Black Magic and Ripples.
Let's see in the next update. May or may not be an optimization issue, if so, perhaps it'll be fixed then.
I have a very high grade pc one that's just a step below the ultimate pc I haven't seen this issue pop up for me in the slightest but i understand where you are coming from in the sense that it does lag because i have similar issues with other renpy games that have been fully completed as of recently, so that being said i do believe it might just be an issue with newer versions of renpy's software.
Renpy isn't the best at playing videos, and it uses software decoding instead of hardware like a normal video player like VLC. So the CPU usage is really high while they're playing in the game. And it seems like the newest version of Renpy made that usage go up a little bit more. The game plays fine on my system but I have heard this issue from a couple of people so I understand.
Sorry guys. It seems some systems have trouble with the animations. The only thing that changed this update was that I updated the version of Renpy to the newest one. The animations are WebM vp9 (vp8 for android), like any other game. If the next Renpy update doesn't fix it, I may have to release a compressed version with 30 fps videos for the people having problems.
It is definitely the decoding. I am 100% shure of that. Currently using and old PC, which runs fine on linux, but youtube videos with vp's sometimes gives me some stuttering. So I started to use firefox extension to force h264-decoding. Much better than it was before. So it is definitely the codec. Would be nice for you to make compressed version for ppl like me (and many other here as well).
