[General] static.lua file is acting weird

[minervasm]

This started when I was trying to figure out a stepmania build to put in our cabinet. SM5.1-b2 was the smoothest one ingame, putting us at 200 fps ingame but at a solid 15~30fps during the menus due to what I thought were the BG Animations. Thing is: in outfox this wasn't happening. I tried going to

.Themes\Simply Love\BGAnimations_shared background\default.lua

and I was trying to comment out the lines applying the animations, although due to the fact that I didn't have notepad++ there, I accidentally commented only line 31

af[#af+1] = LoadActor("./Static.lua", file)

which when I rebooted the game, fixed every sort of problem and made my cab go up from 15 fps to 130 fps. On my normal pc I can see this line acting up as well

I can see that you guys do test on powerful PCs (well, just ordinary good ones) but these things do affect low-end cabs a lot!

Hopefully it may help.

[teejusb]

Ah yeah this was brought to my attention yesterday as well. It's happening because Static.lua on this release will play videos instead of having a static png which can cause performance hits like you are seeing. I'll be more mindful of it on next release, and also remember to add a toggle about whether or not to actually playback the videos for lower end machines. Sorry about that! It should be safe to comment out that line by the way.

I'll leave this issue open until it's addressed.

[minervasm]

Thank you so much! Glad I could be of help :D

[teejusb]

Confined the BG videos specifically to the SRPG6 theme in v5.2.0. Should be fixed for all other visual themes.