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Newbie Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 6 Location: USA

I am sure this can be fixed easy but I sure as heck don't know what it is... I have zmud 6.62 on my computer and am connecting to Sojourn3.org. When ever more than one line of text comes up the mud output flickers all the text on the screen. Is there anyway to stop this because it's really annoying and hard to follow what's going on...

Kill them all, God will know his own.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

I've never encountered this, but it sounds like you might need to adjust the Refresh Amount preference. It's in the User Interface (General) portion of the Preferences.

LightBulb
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Newbie Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 6 Location: USA

I tryed that and it didn't work...

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GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Try clicking on the little pistol icon to the right of the command line. This will disable all triggers. See if the flicker still happens.

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 6 Location: USA

Tried that and it still flickered...

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Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Do you notice the flicker when not using ZMud?

Newbie Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 6 Location: USA

nope only using zmud :)

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GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

To what did you try setting the Refersh Amount?

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 6 Location: USA

i tried at 1 - 50 - 99 to see if it made any difference and there was none I could discern

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GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Try 0 too.

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 6 Location: USA

tried 0 but still no luck but right now theres a problem with my muds server so I can't really judge till they fix they're issues (this issues were non-existant when I started this topic) but as soon as they're resolved I will check again to see what's happening

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Wanderer Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 74 Location: USA

Perhaps try making a new char in zmud and not using any of the old settings and see if it still does it?
I know quite a few people that play there, and even with the problems going on atm, they still don't have this problem.

Novice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 31

I am having the same exact problem, on a different server. Whenever zmud reads a large group of lines, like a who list or shop list, is flickers and slows down quite a bit. I have tried all of the above mentioned fixes, and none worked.

Any help would be appreciated

Darkmere

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

For all those experiencing this problem, please when you have a free moment and will not need what is in your scrollback press CTRL-Q. This causes 1000 lines of text to be displayed, and is used to test the scrolling speed of zMud. If the flickering you mention does not occur then the problem is likely in how your mud is breaking its packets. You might try getting in touch with your mud's coder. I don't recall which code base had it, but there was one that broke packets at each line or 100 characters (whichever came first). This is a poor fashion to do it as the arrival of a packet will interrupt most other proccesses, if the packets are out of sequence this would cause what you describe as zMud is being put on hold two or more times for each line.

Novice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 31

No flickering or flashing occured when pressing CTRL-Q, it went through with no problem. I suppose then it is in the code of the Mud itself, though never before I updated to 6.6+ did it do this. Strange.

Thanks,
Darkmere

Newbie Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 2 Location: USA

I've been having the same problem on duris, where I've never had the problem before and none of the other players I've talked to have it. Is there a way to change my settings to fix this? Besides turning off ansi I haven't found a way to get around it myself. Thanks for the help.

Alikax