Cutscenes Stutter

[76561198166576203]

I was wondering if anyone had encountered this issue before, I saw that a lot of people have dealt with cutscenes skipping, but the issue I've run into is a bit different. Before any cutscene plays the game sort of freezes and the screen displays multiples of the cutscene image but smaller. After this the cutscene plays, then the game freezes/pauses again while the screen goes to black, and then the game starts again. The freeze/pause time is around 3 seconds but it's messing with the flow of the game for me, so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[identifiedasbeingdisrespectful]

I know this may sound odd or trivial, but how fragmented is your harddrive? I only mention it because I had this issue with another older game betrayal in antara. On a wholly unrelated pretense, I defraged my hard drive with the regular windows program. The cutscene stutter in that game and other FMV games stopped.

It does make sense, they're just big video files in a low resolution made when CDs were fairly new and sensitive. The software usually orders it to skip if it can't instantly find the next file chunk since all of the videos and sound were usually one file in these kinds of games.

[Queen HawlSera]

It plays them for me after stuttering, except for the one you get when you kill the Wasp Woman.

[CravenCoyote]

I have this issue too, on a two month old fresh install of Windows 10. Not sure what's causing it. Videos just take a while to start. When they play, it's fine, but I understand it's annoying having to wait.

Anyone have any fixes?

Edit:
After messing about with it for a bit, I found a solution that fixes this for me. In game, press ALT + ENTER to exit full screen mode. In windowed mode, cut scenes play as they should do. Next step is to try and work out how to maximise the window without going fullscreen.

[BlotSven]

Originally posted by Elk Cloner:

I have this issue too, on a two month old fresh install of Windows 10. Not sure what's causing it. Videos just take a while to start. When they play, it's fine, but I understand it's annoying having to wait.

Anyone have any fixes?

Edit:
After messing about with it for a bit, I found a solution that fixes this for me. In game, press ALT + ENTER to exit full screen mode. In windowed mode, cut scenes play as they should do. Next step is to try and work out how to maximise the window without going fullscreen.

The cutscen probl worked after dooing this. but anyone know if is possible to increase the window at all?

[raven_guest13]

Had same problem, just kept playing. Very annoying if you accentally trigging the same cut scene several times x

[identifiedasbeingdisrespectful]

Originally posted by ;355043117503523154:

Originally posted by Elk Cloner:

I have this issue too, on a two month old fresh install of Windows 10. Not sure what's causing it. Videos just take a while to start. When they play, it's fine, but I understand it's annoying having to wait.

Anyone have any fixes?

Edit:
After messing about with it for a bit, I found a solution that fixes this for me. In game, press ALT + ENTER to exit full screen mode. In windowed mode, cut scenes play as they should do. Next step is to try and work out how to maximise the window without going fullscreen.

The cutscen probl worked after dooing this. but anyone know if is possible to increase the window at all?

edit the dosbox conf under the "windowed" parameter you should be able to set a resolution. Should be able to set one for fullscreen too.

[KFC]

This was fixed in GOG version. So I bought the working version and copied dosbox.exe to steamapps\common\Harvester\dosbox_windows. Finally I can play it on steam without video stuttering! :)

[Sagitarus]

Which version of DOSBox uses GOG in Harvester?
Edit: i found that, if you change output from overlay to opengl or openglnb in dosbox_harvester.conifg, then you fix freeze FMV issue. But graphics is more pixelated or more blurry depends of options.

[jack7277]

I fixed exe file in rus version

[jack7277]

here is the fix for english version, originally I did it for russian version
remove spaces

https : // yadi . sk / d / 89fZOqPN3KCcBs

[headholo]

Just download DOSBox Daum ,then copy the DOSBox Daum files into the games dosbox folder overwriting the dosbox 0.74 files you have there already.

It should work ok then.

[-$ilver-]

I am having the same issue, but I am not keen on downoading other things and if I have to make it a smaller window and be more pixelated I will just suffer through the freezing cut scenes. It gives it a more campy feel anyway. ^_^ However, if there is an easier and out of the box fix, please share it with us. Thank you.

[TheAmazingFinn]

Hi. I fixed this by editing the dosbox_harvester.conf file. I did the following:
Changed "output=" value from "overlay" to "opengl".

Now videos don't have the statter (well, like half a second sometimes), and they run straight away nicely as they should.

I did also change "fulldouble=" to "true" as I remember reading somewhere, it might improve the quality a bit. Not sure tho, and doubt this effects the video issue.

For video skipping, I installed jack7277 made patch (which disables video skipping from mouse clicks), seems to work nicely also, thank you.

[jack7277]

I also made patches (video skip bug) for a french and spanish versions
French - https:// // yadi . sk / d / eFsIIONVrMmlJA
Spanish - https:// // yadi . sk / d / vwVBBffzUvrCxw

[5th Wolf]

The fix to all the stuttering is to set DOSBox CPU to max. Not auto or any manual number. I just tested it now and all the cut scenes and gameplay is silky smooth!
This is without straight install. No patches or anything.
I am however using DDRAW for rendering. But I doubt it will matter for whatever renderer your wanting to use.