Re: REALLY slow ship movement on XP
 

Of course, you did go to the game options and turned off "animate ship movement in system window"?

If that doesn't work, you could upgrade your OS to Win98SE. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

PvK

Re: REALLY slow ship movement on XP
 

I had animations ON for the good reason of knowing where all my fleets/ships are going, comming from etc.

Helps keeps you organized without memorizing everything.

Re: REALLY slow ship movement on XP
 

I have two machines:

-p4 3GHz, ti4600, 1gig RAM running XP
-Athlon 1.2GHz, geForce3, 512mb RAM running Win2k

And ship movement is the same on both.

3hd

Re: REALLY slow ship movement on XP
 

I have a dual-boot system with WinXP Pro and Win98. The ships definetly move faster under Win98 than under WinXP. It's a dual-boot system, so it's all the same hardware.

It's annoying more than anything, although I furrow my brow mightly when I play under Win98 and see the ships zipping across the screen... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

Re: REALLY slow ship movement on XP
 

I run se4 on two systems under XP. one is a high-spec 2.something desktop (work) and the other is a 1.4 Sony Vaio laptop (my own, my precioussss). On the laptop I've played se4 both before and after installing the 4 in 1 drivers.

Never noticed any irritating slownesses on either machine at any time.

Re: REALLY slow ship movement on XP
 

You can try to use Win 98 compatibility mode. This is how to do it:
Make an icon of SE4 - right click on it - select properties - select compatibility - check "Run this program in compatibility mode for" box - select Win 98/Win ME - click apply.

It could solve the problem.