Bug Report: Faster song progression problem

[Blue2359]

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Platform

Newgrounds (Web/HTML5)

Browser

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Version

0.5.1

Description (include any images, videos, errors, or crash logs)

Unless I'm tripping, the songs in the 0.5.1 patch update seem to progress a little tiny bit faster than original, but still fast enough to notice something unusual going on, there's also slightly audible clipping noises (which arise from I assume the vocals), while the song is progressing, which can get a bit annoying overtime, I guess.

I did some tests playing some songs on Desktop; (running on version 0.5.0), and on Web; (running on version 0.5.1),
and there does seem to be some lil' differences between each other:

I didn't really calculate the math between these song times, so the 3.5%ish thing I just winged from my head.
This issue might be coming from this PR here #3384, which was merged with the 0.5.1 patch update.

Which might mean that the re-sync check causes the song to progress a realllyyyy tiny bit further while
also trying to sync the vocals with the song time, or whatever if I'm getting this correctly...

I haven't tried a Desktop build of the 0.5.1 patch update, but I would assume it behaves the same as the Web build.
(Edit 1: I've been told that it actually doesn't behave like this on Desktop, but I've yet to try it out.)
(Edit 2: It does seem to be behaving the same.)

(Also note that my Offsets; (Visual & Input) were both set to 0ms on both platforms during these tests!)
Web Browser being used: Brave

Steps to Reproduce

There's not really a reproduction method, you just have to play a song in the 0.5.1 patch update.
Everything for it are basically documented in the description already.

[NotHyper-474]

Yeah I'm on Firefox and also noticed this. Even the audio clipping. Doesn't appear to happen on the Desktop build tho.

[JackXson-Real]

Ive noticed this as well lol

[Kade-github]

I'll have to test later but this could be because of how the game now resyncs more often, from my pr. But otherwise if it has no instrumental offset, nothing should have changed.

Again i'll have to check, as I did test my pr on browser really quickly but not in depth.

[Hundrec]

After playing the game on both a PC and a laptop at the same time (both set to 300 fps), I've found that devices with weaker performance lag behind over the course of the song. I think this has to do with the actual framerate the device is reaching as well as its load times for assets and events.

Maybe running this timing test with different framerate caps and different levels of processing power would yield different results?

[Shaunyman]

I've been having the same problem as well. V0.5.0 worked normally on web, but v0.5.1 has every song sped up. Strangely, my friend is not having this issue when he plays the web version on his computer. We even did a side by side comparison using discord screen share to see the difference and mine was definitely faster. I calculated that there is a roughly 6% increase to the tempo of each song using the tutorial as the control. The tutorial has a tempo of 100bpm and my sped up version is roughly 106bpm. Not sure that this information will be useful, but figured I should put it out there.

[ThatGreenBlur]

On my lower end device playing the desktop version, the frame pacing is atrocious and has so much stutters and rewinds or random offsetting unlike v0.5.0

[macmacfire]

This is particularly noticeable, at least to me, on Bopeebo Erect, and Thorns both Erect and not. I don't know if each song is sped up differently but it seems like it to me.

[Shaunyman]

This issue has been fixed for me in v0.5.2

[NotHyper-474]

This issue has been fixed for me in v0.5.2

Maybe the changes done in #3546 accidentally fixed this

[Shaunyman]

This issue has been fixed for me in v0.5.2

Maybe the changes done in #3546 accidentally fixed this

Not sure... I know for a fact that I never changed any offsets though. I don't particularly care how it was fixed, so much that it was fixed

[Hundrec]

After playing the game on both a PC and a laptop at the same time (both set to 300 fps), I've found that devices with weaker performance lag behind over the course of the song. I think this has to do with the actual framerate the device is reaching as well as its load times for assets and events.

Maybe running this timing test with different framerate caps and different levels of processing power would yield different results?

Just ran this test again on 0.5.2 and they progressed at the same rate throughout the song.
Hooray!

[Blue2359]

Thats weird, I still get the same issue on v0.5.2

[Blue2359]

Fixed in 0.5.3, closing this now..!