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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0005261Elfmania[All Projects] Generalpublic2021-06-27 23:57
ReporterDJ Mike 
Assigned ToCFOUProject InfoElfmania (Terramarque/Renegade)
http://www.whdload.de/games/Elfmania.html
 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusassignedResolutionopen 
Summary0005261: Elfmania seems to be resaving (highscores?) constantly when playing. I use
DescriptionGameVersion: english,pal,2 disks
SlaveVersion: 2.0 (12.03.21)

Elfmania seems to be resaving (highscores?) constantly when playing. I use NOWRITECACHE by default so that WHDLoad immediately saves any progress to disk rather than waiting till exit. The screen keeps blanking when the game is loading something, which is quite disruptive. :-) Could it only resave when the highscores have changed instead?
TagsNo tags attached.
MachineA1200
CPU68030
CPUSpeed50
ChipSetAGA
GFXCardNone
ChipMem2 MB
FastMem32 MB
WorkbenchOS 3.0
KickROM39 - Kick 3.0
KickSoftNone
WHDLoad18.6
importedyes
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note ~0010435

Paul Head (reporter)

I've had the same problem for years with this game, as I too use NOWRITECACHE. I thought there was some sort of problem with the slave and I hoped the newer version would fix it but now you've solved it for me...it's the NOWRITECACHE option. I've asked other people about whether they have had problems with this game and it was always a 'no'. I suppose there's only you and me who use NOWRITECACHE!

note ~0010436

DJ Mike (developer)

Could be sidestepped if WHDLoad let you specify WRITECACHE in icon tooltips to override WHDLoad.prefs - but right now no such command line argument exists.

note ~0010437

Paul Head (reporter)

So we need a new local option WRITECACHE to re-enable the writecache, should it already be disabled globally via the NOWRITECACHE option in the WHDLoad.prefs file. Are you reading this Bert? Well spotted Mike.

note ~0010438

DJ Mike (developer)

Last edited: 2021-06-25 21:31

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It's generally best if patches only save highscores when they actually change. I think it's still something that should be addressed in Elfmania's patch. But I would be happy with WRITECACHE as a fallback in case there are other installs like this. :-)

P.S. I'm happy to take a look at this myself too, but I wanted to pitch it to CFOU first, as it's his patch and he's still active.

note ~0010439

Paul Head (reporter)

Come to think of it, Elfmania is not the only game with this problem (although probably the worst offender I can think of), so a WRITECACHE option would be beneficial in these cases.

note ~0010463

CFOU (developer)

i will look that
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Date Modified Username Field Change
2021-06-24 13:55 administrator New Issue
2021-06-24 13:55 administrator Status new => assigned
2021-06-24 13:55 administrator Assigned To => CFOU
2021-06-25 12:37 Paul Head Note Added: 0010435
2021-06-25 12:49 DJ Mike Note Added: 0010436
2021-06-25 21:25 Paul Head Note Added: 0010437
2021-06-25 21:29 DJ Mike Note Added: 0010438
2021-06-25 21:31 DJ Mike Note Edited: 0010438 View Revisions
2021-06-25 21:31 Paul Head Note Added: 0010439
2021-06-27 23:57 CFOU Note Added: 0010463
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