The Case of the Spurting Ships(tech question)
 

I usually play SE4 on my year old laptop. It works fine and everything moves smoothly.

Why is it my desktop computer with much better specs has the space ships moving in these little spurts instead of smoothly?

Thanks!

Re: The Case of the Spurting Ships(tech question)
 

Check to see if ship animation is disabled or not. I suspect that the laptop has it enabled, and the desktop has it disabled. It is in the game options menu somewhere. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: The Case of the Spurting Ships(tech question)
 

Thanks for your reply but that didn't do it. I found out it had to do with weather I was playing the cd music or not. It's probably the SB Live! card. It seems to have incompatabilities with a lot of games.

Re: The Case of the Spurting Ships(tech question)
 

SE4 often acts oddly when it plays background music. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: The Case of the Spurting Ships(tech question)
 

Something reported that I've noticed is that if you have run Window's media player once after bootup before you start to play SE4, the ship animation is fast and jerky.