Very, very slow

[sfresh]

I looked around on the forums a bit to see if anyone else is discussing this and didn't see anything. I got the pre20 public release lately and while it's mostly awesome, it runs horribly, horribly slowly on my otherwise quite capable computer. Obviously the old ADOM never lagged a bit and was almost instant in saving/loading, but the graphical version has massive input lag that varies from maybe .2 seconds to sometimes a full second. Hit a key, wait, wait, wait, response. It makes playing the game very hard. The lag seems to vary depending on my character's position on the local map. Loading and saving is also getting to be a minute-plus long wait with my level 15 character.

Is the game this slow for everyone else, and we're just waiting on it to be eventually optimized? Or am I having a unique problem?

Edit: To clarify, the game is laggy w/ software or openGL rendering, windowed or fullscreen, and messing with compatibility settings doesn't seem to effect anything.

[gut]

run some antivirus programs and check your task manager to see if any running process/service is consuming one of your processor cores.

[Mobius]

I reported it more than once:
http://www.adom.de/forums/project.php?issueid=2389
It's slow, and it's worse in areas with trees, or ToEF, related areas.

I suspect there are two issues: certain images with alpha are slow to draw (trees)
and overall speed has some big improvements that can be made.

[Stingray1]

I found the game to lag the most while loading new tiles or soundfiles. Almost as if the hardrive access time is not optimal. Maybe all images and sound should just be loaded at application start.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Yeah, it has noticeable latency. In my machine I wouldn't say it can go to a full second, except in forest wilderness encounters, those are really slow.

In most places, it's like maybe 100 or 200 ms, but that's definitely enough to be annoying.

In the ASCII version, if I find a tension room of pushovers, I can hold the directional key (yeah, yeah, I know I shouldn't, but I bet many of us do) and all the monsters will be killed in a second. In the tiled version it takes a much longer time.

Loading tiles also takes a little while but I don't care much about that, to be honest, as it's not done that often. The normal latency when moving an attacking bothers me more because even if it's smaller, it's there all the time and affects things like tension rooms as mentioned. Although in practice I just press F10 to do that

I hope they optimize at some point. It's normal that it isn't optimized yet, the normal order when programming is first making stuff work and then optimizing.

[Moeba]

I have the same thing when I try any graphic setting different from the regular tiles. Even with isometric it runs really slow.
Is it also slow when you play in ASCII mode? [EDIT after reading more carefully:] For some of you ASCII runs fast, obviously. So it's a problem with the graphics, anyway - and probably connected to how fast NotEye works on your PC.

[Mobius]

Just tested on my machine (macbook pro, 2Ghz inel core i7)
Sitting idle in text mode, it takes 45% cpu.
Sitting idle in Terinyo, uses 68%

Music and sound off, fyi. OpenGL mode, not full screen.