Posted: 3/5/2018 2:12 PM
Post subject: Is there a way to speed up Savestate and Loadstate ?
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Lil_Gecko
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I am at about 4 millions frames in my TAS and whenever I want to save or load a state it now takes forever. I guess it's because the whole input sequence up to this point is save in the State but is there a way to speed up the process ? Because I'm spending more time waiting for load/save than actually TASing. I tried stopping the movie, Record from Now with the idea of splicing movies together afterwards but the Record From Now softlock for me when the game loads something. I am on Bizhawk 1.11.9 Thanks.
Posted: 3/7/2018 2:44 PM
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jlun2
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What console is that game on? Are you using TAStudios or recording via keyboard?
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This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.
Posted: 3/7/2018 10:20 PM
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Lil_Gecko
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Psxhawk with Final Fantasy IX. Recording via keyboard.
Posted: 3/23/2018 3:29 PM
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Lil_Gecko
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Just in case someone is wondering the same thing I kinda found a solution. Using LuaScript I assigned keys to memorysavestate.savecorestate and memorysavestate.loadcorestate so the inputs are not saved in the savestate if I understood correctly. And then everything works instantly. To the experts, is there a downside of doing that ? Risks of desync maybe ?
Posted: 3/24/2018 6:17 PM
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Amaraticando
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I'm not expert, but I'm pretty sure it increases the risk by eliminating the concept of bullet-proof rerecording. http://tasvideos.org/LawsOfTAS/Glossary.html
Posted: 3/24/2018 7:02 PM
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Weatherton
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Are you using an SSD? Read and write speed would play a major factor here. Possibly you could also make a virtual drive in RAM and just regularly copy to disc.
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