Package: cuyo Version: 1.8.5-1 Followup-For: Bug #208688
Some levels, particularly the second level (embroidery) overloads my 1800MHz opteron to such an extent that it is unplayable. It uses way too much cpu for the very simple graphichs displayed - the simple graphichs could be done by a 1990's (or even 1985) machine with no problems. The game itself is _excellent_, but the graphichs programming is a bad joke. The level is playable in the beginning, although it uses an insane amount of cpu for doing very little. It ruins itself just when the fun begins, that is, when rows gets passed back and forth between players depending on success. Then the game uses so much cpu that it delays itself, and it does not process keypresses at a�ll while the row is transferred and some time before and after. This gives the computer player a huge advantage - the human player can only sit and see his pieces fall slowly down with no control. Pressing keys have no effect until much later. Because of this enormous delay in handling keypresses, the human seems to play very bad - just letting the pieces fall in a heap in the middle. And so the computer gets another row transferred, causing so much further delays that another row gets transferred. And so on - until the game is lost. I have lost many a good game to this silliness. It gets much worse if the machine is under a light load, such as a niced compile or another user doing something. Zero load means the level sometimes is barely playable, and sometimes not at all. Too bad for an otherwise nice game - I really like cuyo. Only a few levels are like this, most levels works fine! Please look into how the graphichs is done, this cannot be that hard to fix. This is on amd64 - it is equally bad on i386. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc5 Locale: LANG=no_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=no_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages cuyo depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.4-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime cuyo recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
