battle recorder speeds - fast forward possible?

[TomWChick]

Hear, hear! I really miss this as well.

As I said elsewhere, I understand the new graphics tech must have been a lot of work (it shows! bravo!) and it obviously wasn't easy to work in a variable speed. But ultimately, I'm afraid the replays are of extremely limited value if you have to watch the entire thing at one speed.

-Tom

[Pocus]

Has someone tried to put his FPS to the maximum supported by his hardware -fps 999, and then disabling the background in the tac battle (key w). Perhaps the game will run at a fast enough speed. Then when you are at the situation you want to check, restore the background (w key).

Though I wonder what can be the technical issue they encounter. Ideally the data engine & renderer have only a unidirectional link data>renderer, so shutting down the rendering should pose no problem (you should be able to have a text Version of the tac replay for example, without too much hassle). Calculate the rounds as fast as possible (limited my CPU power only), then reconnecting the renderer so that the display his restored and synchronized.
???

[LordArioch]

Thats a really good idea actually...since I sputter along at 15fps normally i can use w as a speedup anyway...but maybe 100-200 fps would be a really good speed modifier. It'll work unless better improvements are made.

[Pocus]

as of now I'm unable to use the -fps switch. Either it dont work, or the game dont launch (i dont even see a window drawing for a second), or it activate the test config switch.

so, who was able to launch the game with this switch? What is the exact syntax. Does -fps and --fps is different?

[LordArioch]

Mine makes a window saying its running a performance test, notes the lack of /maps/julmap.tga and announces "Nagot gick fel!"
this was with -fps 100
Trying -fps100 gave no window
--fps is untested