Impossible to synchronize Livesplit time

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iceolator: 2017-07-19 12:09:15 pm

2017-07-19 12:04:10 pm

Hello everybody

I can not use the game time on Livesplit, when I want to run the timer he's start but he's not sync with the game.. The problem is that I have to launch at the perfect moment of the beginning of game otherwise I am late .. Once on 2 it starts automatically but many times it is not sync.. What should i do?

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Ekelbatzen

2017-07-19 03:13:15 pm

Does the autosplitter not support auto-start? If not you could look into scripting it in. If there is ingame time available you can look into using that in the autosplitter.
Which game is it even for?

iceolator

2017-07-22 12:16:20 pm

Quote from Ekelbatzen:

Does the autosplitter not support auto-start? If not you could look into scripting it in. If there is ingame time available you can look into using that in the autosplitter.
Which game is it even for?

Its that, the time dont autostart and i dont have Autosplitter .

I play with Resident evil 1.2.3, Super Mario Bros and other game..

I selected my game in "Edit Split" and for Resident evil i downloaded the script autospliter for the door but nothing..

I dont understand because I succeeded to run 2 times on resident evil but when i want to restart Livesplit after day this problem are never stopped

Ekelbatzen

2017-07-23 05:18:06 am

The scripts you use are external resources, for example from speedrun.com. The autosplitters are not in the official livesplit list and you can't just type your game name into "edit splits", you have to direct livesplit to your downloaded splitter file.

Go to edit layout > + > Control > "Scriptable Auto Splitter" for that, then go to the settings of it and set your file path to your splitter file. The same goes for SMB on whatever emulator you use.
Splitters may also easily not work anymore if the game or emulator you use get patched or you use a different version or emulator than the script author intended.

If you managed to make them work somehow but they still behave weirdly, you may want to look into the script, find out who the author is and contact them. Or try to re-write the script yourself.

iceolator

2017-07-23 10:05:09 am

I made several screenshots for you to understand that I do everything well.

Split Editor: https://gyazo.com/9011c3b84e10fe3f71d31af478344d4c

Layout Editor: https://gyazo.com/136864f784cb2524e97c89ff0ec5d738

You can even see that the game is paused but that time is still running : https://gyazo.com/6561dc30884b024de637e41085af657b

I have selected "Game Time" but nothing.. Everybody use this Layout Script but only me have a problem..

Ekelbatzen

2017-07-23 12:35:22 pm

The script looks badly written when I look into the code, you may want to debug it kind of to find out what is going wrong. You can also join our discord where we help people creating autosplitters, might go faster than here: https://discord.gg/N6wv8pW

A good start to debug is using DebugView to see if livesplit is printing out any errors of the script in runtime: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/debugview.aspx

Next step would be to look into the variables from the script in runtime and what unexpected values you get.