VN Ren'Py Stray Incubus [S2 Ch.2a] [Flynn974]

[Old Grumpy Wolf]

performance gets worse the more videos in sequence there are because they are all still playing in the background!
in the scene with potion extraction the videos are smaller than the screen and you can see that previous animations are still animating under it.
by the end of that scene with all the animations stacked over each other the game could be measured in seconds per frame.

Flynn974 please report to renpy to fix.
inform other authors too because more and more games have this issue.
it ruins animations

I've never had any issues with animations in any game that has them. Includin this one.

 

[Mommysbuttslut]

I've never had any issues with animations in any game that has them. Includin this one.

Depends on your pc specs, the video size and how demanding the video encoding is. It's about the coding, there's one command that will clear the playback but it's not immediately apparent to newer devs and coders that they can or should do that.
No idea what the command is, python might as well be Swahili to me.

 

[Deejeey]

I've never had any issues with animations in any game that has them. Includin this one.

that is because you have cpu power to spare or the engine can use your gpu.

for me a single animation playing uses 30% cpu, 60% with 2 (with image from below), 4 from the potion scene reach 95%, 5th makes the whole system barely usable and scene has more than 5. it was a very bad experience going past that.

try the potions scene with Gabriella and Venus, reach when mc finishes and roll back and play through animations while looking at cpu and gpu usage and you will see unusual high usage.


the videos being shorter help seeing that it plays 2 animations at the same time

both the top and the bottom are animations and both are actively animating.
this also ran bad but not as bad as the next animations because they all are playing at once until it shows a static image. once they finished extracting pc was back to being fine at 3% cpu usage for a static image. all animations stopped playing.

 

[Old Grumpy Wolf]

Depends on your pc specs, the video size and how demanding the video encoding is. It's about the coding, there's one command that will clear the playback but it's not immediately apparent to newer devs and coders that they can or should do that.
No idea what the command is, python might as well be Swahili to me.

that is because you have cpu power to spare or the engine can use your gpu.

for me a single animation playing uses 30% cpu, 60% with 2 (with image from below), 4 from the potion scene reach 95%, 5th makes the whole system barely usable and scene has more than 5. it was a very bad experience going past that.

try the potions scene with Gabriella and Venus, reach when mc finishes and roll back and play through animations while looking at cpu and gpu usage and you will see unusual high usage.


the videos being shorter help seeing that it plays 2 animations at the same time
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both the top and the bottom are animations and both are actively animating.
this also ran bad but not as bad as the next animations because they all are playing at once until it shows a static image. once they finished extracting pc was back to being fine at 3% cpu usage for a static image. all animations stopped playing.

I'm not sayin people aren't havin issues. I'm just not experiencin them. As for my pc, cpu is a Ryzen 7950x, gpu is a 7900xtx and 32gigs of 6400(2x16gig). I'm sure that's the reason.

 

[Phase_01]

I definitely had animation issues this update that I didn't really have before, especially in that Gabrielle and Venus scene.
Have had issues with a lot of Renpy games lately on my laptop, and its an i7 2022 model, not the p series but h series (dont remember the exact model)

Don't have the issue with my much older desktop, so I'm assume its an issue with either Windows 11 or Intel Graphics, or its a Renpy 8 issue.

 

[Phase_01]

I'm not sayin people aren't havin issues. I'm just not experiencin them. As for my pc, cpu is a Ryzen 7950x, gpu is a 7900xtx and 32gigs of 6400(2x16gig). I'm sure that's the reason.

Yea if you're PC was having issues, I would definitely be concerned you should be able to play Renpy games rendered at 8k and still be running them fine lol

 

[Old Grumpy Wolf]

Yea if you're PC was having issues, I would definitely be concerned you should be able to play Renpy games rendered at 8k and still be running them fine lol

Agreed. I basically only use it to play Ren'py games, BG3, Palworld and just started Pacific Drive and Nightingale. Nightingale is a bitch due to bein online only even for solo play and my net sucks ass.

 

[itsnotmeiswear]

Gallery unlock for Chapter 12a only. It's the default gallery file with one variable changed, the unlock code is already built in.

 

[Juerhullycin]

Agreed. I basically only use it to play Ren'py games, BG3, Palworld and just started Pacific Drive and Nightingale. Nightingale is a bitch due to bein online only even for solo play and my net sucks ass.

my old i7 had 33% usage for some single animations, my new i9 you don't even see a dent in the usage for the same scene.

But like he said some devs don't clear what happens in the background and just plastering the next scene over the old one, depending on the encoding and confounded by not using proper garbage collection older machines get in serious troubles.

Also most devs wont catch those slip ups because their rigs are built for rendering so playing a few clips at the same time does absolutely nothing.

 

[MiroDking]

Android version?

 

[BakaHu]

Android version?

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it has a lot of animation
tapping too much can cause lag issues that can lead to crashing
And auto save isn't frequent a crash can set you back a bit if you don't manually save

 

[Mr_Sel]

Ikr right dude. It's so fucking underwhelming. Like why drunk sex dude. Not with alcohol but lust? I get it but yeahh...so underwhelming for a main girl to be treated like a side girl

I have to agree that it feels incredibly rushed and I had the same impression with Steph, who I was really looking forward to :/

 

[DemonicCreampie]

I don't think I am the one who is not liking these abrupt sex scenes. Both stephanie and annabelle scenes were sudden with no build-up. Kinda ruined what were supposed to be their first sex scenes

Yes thank you. I noticed that this update too. It's a fun quirk for minor characters but we've been building up to both of them for 12 chapters now. To just abruptly cut to the sex scenes... I feel robbed to be honest.
As a writer, I'm suspecting that the Dev may have another project in mind and now wants to rush towards endgame. I could be mistaken but that's my impression. There was a lot of sex and impregnation in this chapter. Makes me think that the end is coming soon. Most of the "Firsts" are gone, now Dev is just gonna wrap up the story

 

[DemonicCreampie]

Yeah I didn’t like the straight cuts and am I the only one that feels like the story was rushed in chapter 12. It felt like a speedrun. Sex sex sex mini boss fight sex cliffhanger reveal

Yeah I really think dev is trying to wrap this story up. Also there's a lot of girls and we're on chapter 12. It gets tiring trying to come up with new ways to have sex with each. But yeah the cutting to mid sex was a cop out, I think we were robbed of the buildup that we've spent 11 chapters building

 

[DemonicCreampie]

This last update feel rushed, as if Flynn974 wanted to end chapter 1 fast before starting chapter 2. There is interesting side of the story on this chapter, it start to build up then ends as if nothing happend, letting us clueless.

One of them beeing the Auge letter on the door, seems Anabelle understood the letter we have no idea of it's contents and meaning to her. Just a he is alive, it cut abrutly like if she not really wanted to find Sirius.

Also the end of the combat, they avoid the spell, end up into a street then can have the luxury to fuck and sleep peacefully like if nothing happend. btw this sex scene is the only one that in some way make sense it happend abrutly, she repressed her felling and needs to the MC then after what happend she somehow lose control and jump on the MC.

I guess now we just have to wait for chapter 2 with the hope that's not the trend for this chapter.

Yeah I was confused by that. The inn was swarming with non friendlies, then they dodge the attack and suddenly they can have an uninterrupted night in the same inn they just got jumped in? Doesn't make sense

 

[Landrol]

Damn this game is AMAZING!!! God I HATE that it leaves on such a cliff hanger! Following the thread for future updates!!! Damn good job!

 

[ShadowYamihiro]

new chapter is season end, you should play it now
next chapter could take a while

will do tnx for telling me

 

[Pgabriel23]

so i guess this game is good cuz has many "options" also good story cuz lets mix different cultures and make a mess=good narrative! played till chapter 6 what a snooze fest stop rating everything 5 star morons

 

[Mr_Sel]

Yeah I really think dev is trying to wrap this story up. Also there's a lot of girls and we're on chapter 12. It gets tiring trying to come up with new ways to have sex with each. But yeah the cutting to mid sex was a cop out, I think we were robbed of the buildup that we've spent 11 chapters building

But the setting for Anabelle was actually perfect IMO (the only unnecessary part was succubi magic). She kissed MC during the fight, they barely escaped with their lives, they're sitting in some alley next to one another, pumped up with adrenaline. The problem is that someone sit on the remote and we watched fast forward of what was supposed to be the best part of the movie.

Hopefully one day Flynn can provide us with 'director's cut'.

 

[Badjourasmix]

Damn I really like this game, but this update is unplayable for me because of the animations my poor cpu is running at 95% trying to play the gabby and venus scene.