How to Play Music Without Lagging Game?

[Ramsey]

Everytime a trigger runs the Play Music - any default wc3 song, it lags the game for like half a second.

I looked up answers to this question and i saw something like leave it how it is and people will just think its the laggers lagging hahhhaha but no i cant do that



is there a certain order for the triggers or something?
I just have it as -Stop last playing music Then -Play Music-Whatever

 

[IcemanBo]

Do you use this?
Sound - Stop music Instantly

 

[Ramsey]

Do you use this?
Sound - Stop music Instantly

Yea but it's Sound - Stop music after fading

 

[IcemanBo]

You can choose Immediatly/Instantly idk what's exactly written in english editor.

 

[Ramsey]

You can choose Immediatly/Instantly idk what's exactly written in english editor.

That will remove the lag?


So in final it will be:

Sound - stop last playing music instantly
Sound - play NEW music

OR should there be a small wait inbetween too?

 

[IcemanBo]

No wait in between, try it out. I think it worked for me long time ago, but Im not very sure.

 

[DysfunctionaI]

OK so I gotta ask: how large is the sound file and what type of file is it?

In any case, you could probably easily solve this with preloading the sound at map init (or at time elapsed 0.00, I forget). I can't write the function atm, but just google "warcraft 3 preload sound" or whatever, you basically just play the sound at the start of the game with zero volume, so no one hears it, but the lag from loading the sound will be taken care of on init.

Also, you might wanna be positive that there's nothing else that would lag in the trigger that plays the music, because I've never heard lag caused by playing sounds.

 

[Adiktuz]

Most objects will cause a lag the first time they are used. To counter it you can opt to "preload" them during map init (obviously the costs would be longer loading times + more chance to hit OP limit)

 

[Zwiebelchen]

I always use the Sound functions instead of Play Music. Works without lag. Only downside is that the music volume controller in game options will not work this way.

 

[BPower]

Which is not a big problem, because you can set sound properties like volume per sound.

 

[Ramsey]

No i figured it out, Icemanbo is right.

Using the triggers:
Sound - Immediately stop last playing music
Sound - Play new music

does not lag at all compared to

Sound - Stop last playing music after fading
Sound - Play new music


So yeah do not use Stop music after fading unless you put a few seconds wait after it