Lag after midi ends?
 

Hello! I had made a previous post in this forum diagnosing a problem I encountered previously, however now I'd kind of like to see what the root cause is.

I've noticed that P99 has a large lag spike after a midi song ends. Be it with the original combat midi or just general town music. I've also noted the issue across several different computers including the PC of someone not even in the same house, so I don't think it's just me. I suppose there's a chance that in all of those I was the odd one out, but it's not like testing it is very hard either.

Does anybody have any idea why this happens or perhaps a solution? When I'm running around town and keep getting hit with lag spikes from various music starting and ending it makes me feel a little nauseous, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Yeah, that's the post I made previously. While adding the .mp3 files back to the game and getting rid of the combat midis fixed the lag, it doesn't resolve the lag I receive from all of the other midis that play in this game. If I walk through town and midis start and end in rapid succession I'm hit with several large lag spikes every time they end.

I'd be curious if you could fix things by using different midis (eg. https://wiki.project1999.com/Fan_Art...ic:_Reimagined).

It sounds like a lot of work though (I guess you have to replace the MIDIs one by one ... still might be worth testing with a single MIDI).

I kind of doubt it'd make any difference. At the very least I've replaced a few of songs with .mp3 versions but it only works on ones that already have that file format. So no midis for the most part. I don't really have the technical know-how to do more than that lol

Interesting: I would have guessed it was the file itself, but it sounds like it's just the format.

On the plus side, if you can ever get your PC to play midis differently (eg. I know there used to be ways to install different instrument sets, to let you play midis more realistically), you might be able to fix things in one fell swoop.

I've tried that already with Coolsoft Virtual Midi Synth. While it does improve the midi quality, the lag is still present.

To add to this. Of the hardware I've replicated the issue on, two were running Windows 11 and one was running Windows 7. All had the same results. So I think that at least rules out the OS.

Bumping this thread several months later. Since then I've built a completely new PC, and despite yet another fresh install, midis still cause a lag spike upon ending. Sigh...

Given that I've tested this across 4 separate computers and all have had the same issue, I'm really starting to doubt it's my hardware.

I'm not sure what could be done at this rate but I'll keep holding onto hope lol