From 5f00c26f231ccc4e7a654f5096ef7516f5954e9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rubidium Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:04:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (svn r17956) -Document: CPU usage issues with SDL-ALSA-PulseAudo --- known-bugs.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/known-bugs.txt b/known-bugs.txt index 5df7ec914a..5134d758f4 100644 --- a/known-bugs.txt +++ b/known-bugs.txt @@ -122,3 +122,10 @@ Lost trains ignore (block) exit signals makes the impact of fixing the bug enormously small against the amount of work needed to write a system that prevents the lost trains from taking the wrong direction. + +Extreme CPU usage when using SDL and PulseAudio + OpenTTD can be extremely slow/use a lot of CPU when the sound is + played via SDL and then through PulseAudio's ALSA wrapper. This setup + seems to be the default configuration for Ubuntu 9.04 and later. This + issue can be solved by installing the 'libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio' + package from Ubuntu's Universe repository.