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Hello, any progress in this issue?
I’ve bought a new mobile phone, installed an SD-card and moved MagicBox directories to the SD-card. Then – in General Settings – I requested permissions to the whole SD-card. At last, I set Data Directory to “/storage/ABCD-EFGH/Games/MagicBox/”, DosBox wants to be restarted, and after restart, the DataDirectory is reset to “/storage/emulated/0/.MagicBox/”.
Ok, I tried on Shield Tv. At vga max settings is perfectly fluent. At svga max settings is almoat playable, however I feel fps drop. I used tweaks : sound blaster 2.0 instead sb16 and i set cycles=max 120%
Probably I had my game configuration somehow corrupted. Before, the sound was fitful/jerky, now it is clean. And the game is now “almost” playable. But the problem wasn’t fixed by setting SB2.0, the game now works even with SB16.
However, my SM-T580 tablet seems to be not powerful enough for this game. The game is playable only with compromises – VGA, reduced screen-size, restricted look-ahead, many features off, and the FPS are still not excellent. I feel like 20 years ago when my PC wasn’t powerful enough to play the game in SVGA.
According to the Doom benchmark, your Shield TV is more than twice faster than my tablet. That’s why the game is playable for you, but not for me.
Anyway, thank you for your help.
The only keys you need are arrows, esc, enter and Y. I’ve got left/right at the left-hand side and up/down at the right-hand side.
I’m really curious whether you’ll be able to make that game playable fast enough. With most details off, the game is still on the edge of being playable, for me.
Before, I had measured the Doom benchmark on my notebook somehow incorrectly. Now I ran it again, and the score is ~310. I am not aware of any changes in dosbox settings, maybe the notebook switched to the better (of the two) graphics cards automatically. But now the performance difference between the notebook and tablet is very substantial, which could explain everything.
Edit: That low tablet score I obtained because I had limited the CPU cycles to 50000. Now, when I set CPU cycles to Auto, I got the much better score. That was my fault, sorry.
I see that the difference is not “negligible” :-). But as the notebook score is better no more than twice, I would expect that FPS would be higher no more than twice, with the same game detail settings. That’s why I was asking why there is so big difference in FPS between the two systems.
Also, as the benchmark is based on Doom “real-clicks”, I would expect the score to be linear – two times lower score means two times faster machine (from the Doom perspective). As this is not the case for the Fatal Racing, does it mean that the PC version of DosBox is more optimised? For instance, that it is able to make better use of the GPU? Or that the PC version is able to execute pieces of code in the notebook CPU directly, while the Android version has to emulate everything?
Ah, this plus :), thank you. I was expecting it on the places I need it, not at a single central location. But this is not important now, there are more important issues. 🙂
Yes, I mean the cross.
> you must add prefix user_ to image
Oh, that’s it, thanks!
> if you dont import images with ‘+’
Which ‘+’?? I can’t find any.
Btw, can the image for the joystic image/look enlaged? It seems to be small and the same size disregard of the image size used and the size of the joystic circle. Not a high priority problem, though.
Yeah, you can consider it “excluded relative mouse area”, or “abdolute mouse area”. I’m looking at it from another perspective, so we were not able to meet.
OK, after watching some of your videos, now I understand how the “Mouse navigation with Duration set to ‘until button down’” works. It’s just a modifier key, like Alt.
So no, this is not what I need.Edit: An analogy: Every widget can be set visually transparent. But concerning clicking, every widget swallows the finger touch and performs an action. What I need is to set a widget “transparent” for clicking, but currently there seems to be no widget that allows this. There are two candidates where this click-transparency can be implemented: either the Telescope widget which I was describing above, or the Mouse widget. The Mouse widget could be a better candidate, but the Telescope widget already provides the functionality, though not ideally. Below I’m trying to explain how to implement it in the Telescope. End of edit
Back to the Telescope widget streaming, then. I’ll try to explain better what I was asking for. Maybe it would be better if I sent you a .mgc file?
The streaming works exactly like I need it, but the adjustment of the widget is too complicated and fragile for the purpose of what I want to do. Normally when you use the widget, you stream image from source location to a diferent target location. And clicks are transfered in the opposite direction, from target to the source:
source target --- ----- | | ---- image ---> | | --- <--- clicks --- | | -----(Target is the widget area, source is the Selection area.)
But I’m interested only in those clicks, hence I have set the vidget invisible. Moreover, I’ve set source and target identical, which has the effect that clicks occur at the exact point where finger touched the screen. And this is what I’m trying to achieve all the time. And I know no simpler method of doing that than this.So, I’m asking you for a new option in the streaming setup, where the source is kept identical to the target, insread of being set manually as the Selection area. This would substantially simplify doing what I’m trying to achieve. If it is still unclear, I’ll try to make some screenshots, or I can send you the .mgc file.
The Mouse navigation with Duration set to “until button down” might work and be even simpler than the streaming. But I can’t figure out how to make it work :(. When I press the widget, nothing seems to happen, no click is issued anywhere. The widget probably needs to be combined with another widget, but how?
All I want is to press a widget and the widget to make a mouse click at the exact position I pressed the screen. Even when mouse is in relative mode and the mouse pointer is elsewhere.
The Telescope widget is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I couldn’t find the streaming functionality as the widget is not documented (on the web). The only thing I would ask you for is to add an option into the widget that would set the streaming source selection identical to the size and position of the widget.It turns out to be difficult in the graphical interface to align the source exactly with the widget; and when you resize the widget, you have to make the aligning procedure again.
The telescope streaming is a very powerful feature, it surely can have many uses. It’s a pity that such great functionality is burried somewhere deep under the non-descriptive name of the widget.
Edit: No, the Mouse navigation widget (as it is now) doesn’t have the functionality. But the Telescope widget does. 🙂
If your satisfied with the result, you may edit the information in your page here :-). And answer my other posts ;).
Actually, I found a way. It suffices, in the AdvancedSettings, to set CorrectionType=msmouse and then enable ManualCorrection. I’ve set the ManualCorrection resolution to 1280×960 on my tablet, on other tablet this might need to be set differently. I have played with the game for about 5 minutes in this settings, and everything worked almost without problems. Only occasionally I had to reset the mouse pointer.
