EraRamp

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That's sad. The new animations were clearly a step ahead in terms of immersion and quality.
It is expected that when you have a PC that costs 50 dollars, such as the one with an ancient Phenom CPU, that many modern games won't work well. I doubt that Rockstar downgrades their games just because some people cannot play them on the Intel Pentium III.
Why Decent Monkey doesn't just ask his patrons whether to keep the new animation that works only on modern PCs or get back the old one that is objectively worse but works better for a few of people.
You don't seem to understand. Animation will be the same, it's just that the players who had animation slowed down, it will stop slowing down ;)
 

Stan5851

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For those who also have slow video I can inform you that DM will return the old video format ;)
The whole thing is actually pretty weird. I mean the way the animations in some top AVN games behave. We talk about some brakes/freeze and CPU core load, but really it's just ridiculous 5-20 megabyte clips and I can tell you that's in most AVN games I've played.. And the bitrate of such clips is far from prohibitive. And even (in the vast majority of games) they are made not in 4K, but in regular 1080p. Besides, such animations are packaged in a standard video container supported by most OS, software players and devices themselves. So where do these brakes come from? Well, yes, maybe problems with codecs and so on...But in general something is wrong here..

And it seems to me that the RenPy engine is more to blame for all this, because tiny clips with animation (if you run them separately in any program video player) themselves, as a rule, do not slow down. The only thing that slows me down (and that's only on an old laptop with I5 Core) is some 4k videos with high bitrate, but there it is at least logically explainable, which can not be said about tiny video clips with game animations.

P.S. I'd still understand if the devs put us the "raw animation" as they create it in DAZ3D/Blender, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing weighs a few gigabytes before optimization and compression, and then some playback lags would make at least a little bit of sense..BUT! People are complaining about tiny video clips! that a priori shouldn't playback lags, unless of course you're using some ancient Pentium 166.. :unsure:
 
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acutestalker

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not 100% but most likely. AMD proc`s in late 2000- and begining of 2010- was shit.
software not standing at one place and optimization's became worse with every new version.

But as i said you can check it up yourself - run animation scene and check % load in Perfomance.
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Heres the performance check when the animation running. What does it mean? It looks just fine to me :unsure:
 

Sachin Lamba

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Hot ones :D

For sure - Shiny hole. With high chance 5th day of Phillip`s basement. Mb Victoria`s scene (cuz we have none in 4.04 with her.)
Another investor casting. Mb Betty or Julia.

So 5 scenes as usual.
Shiny Hole 100%, I dont think there will be basement scene this update maybe I am wrong, I would like a scene to be continuation of porn casting event, High chance of Victoria scene, Investor casting 90%, Maybe one or two more random events
 

Ostego

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I dont think there will be basement scene this update maybe I am wrong, I would like a scene to be continuation of porn casting event
Yeap, as there is no more need to rush Basement it can be done with delays. 4.06 4.08. and 4.10 ending for example.
Forgot about porno casting - it can have place with high chance too.

Btw - there is vote poll in discord about best photoshoot scene. Mb will have new one in 4.05.
 
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Sachin Lamba

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Yeap, as there is no more need to rush Basement it can be done with delays. 4.06 4.08. and 4.10 ending for example.
Forgot about porno casting - it can have place with high chance too.

Btw - there is vote poll in discord about best photoshoot scene. Mb will have new one in 4.05.
yea and thats where new outfit comes which DM confirmed
 

Stan5851

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Btw - there is vote poll in discord about best photoshoot scene. Mb will have new one in 4.05.
Not in discord, but in patreon.
Personally, I voted for the latter option. Any subscriber can vote, even a "guest", but you need to log in beforehand.
 
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Stan5851

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nope, check new messages in Disc
Thanks. I never thought a poll would be lurking in the 18-yo-only sub channel, hehe..And yes, that poll I linked is about Monica's outfits, not photo shoots ...err..my head is spinning these days.

p.s. Ostego, I cast my vote for option 3 (Monica's photoshoot with Isaac at Ryan's studio) as probably the most stylish photoshoot of all (even the ones that didn't make this list). Cabaret and Liza Minnelli style are always cool.
 
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