Text speed in AGS-games

[MoonBird]

can you adjust TextReadingSpeed or MinimumTextDelay from ags acsetup.cfg? And if it can be done, what would be the commandlines for them?

Anyway, thank you very much at this point already! You've done a wonderful favor for me, and opened tens of new games, which were subtitled too fast before. I mean, lot of games work beautifully with this Speechskip=input command. Some games have minor glitches, but it's a small price for a controllable dialogue! Those small glitches include some temporary freezing / long delays (for example in Infinity Strings) and some magenta-colored backgrounds in logos and menus (Murder In A Wheel as an example)

[eri0o]

Can you link the game binaries of Murder In A Wheel?

[Crimson Wizard]

can you adjust TextReadingSpeed or MinimumTextDelay from ags acsetup.cfg? And if it can be done, what would be the commandlines for them?

Not at the moment, but I was planning to add this along with the existing options.

Some games have minor glitches, but it's a small price for a controllable dialogue! Those small glitches include some temporary freezing / long delays (for example in Infinity Strings) and some magenta-colored backgrounds in logos and menus (Murder In A Wheel as an example)

Please do report glitches found when running old games (you may do so in "Engine development" forum section, or in engine release topic).
We define AGS v3.* as backwards compatible, and suited for running old games. There's also ScummVM port of AGS which shares most of our code. So fixing it here might also help ScummVM developers to fix theirs.

Can you link the game binaries of Murder In A Wheel?

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/941-murder-in-a-wheel/
https://www.mediafire.com/?82ikmzlzixi

[heltenjon]

I tried downloading "Cedric and revolution" from AGS database page, but i get connection errors.

Off Topic: I checked this, and I can download it just fine, as long as I override the Windows 11 message (I think) about it being unsafe (which it does for all http adresses now, I guess). I added a mirror link to the depository on archive.org anyway, to make it more accessible.

[MoonBird]

Not at the moment, but I was planning to add this along with the existing options.

Please inform me if there is any further changes to the situation.

[cat]

Parts of the discussion were moved here by request: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/engine-development/re-text-speed-in-ags-games/

[Crimson Wizard]

Please inform me if there is any further changes to the situation.

So, I added "text reading speed" option to "Accessibility settings" in setup.
Download: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/4742122312564736
or here (acwin.exe only): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5lr7rvv1z9czrjidn581s/acwin-3.6.2-textspeed.zip?rlkey=q91tj5qmuuofrv609n3l7g8p5&st=q9rpeybq&dl=0

The option is a slider that can be 0 (meaning use game settings), or range from 1 to 30 chars per second. AGS default is 15, so any lower will make text stay longer, and any high will make it go faster.


EDIT:  I tested couple of games mentioned in this thread.
Although it works in "Cedric and Revolution", but still not in "Bustin' the Bastille" for some unfortunate reason. Possibly they are using purely custom settings in their game.