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Originally Posted by malthaussen
An odd little bug turned up in 9.1 tonight. Running under Win 8, full screen, campaign version. In the middle of the battle, quite without warning, there started to be a lag between firing visual effects and sfx, ONLY in the computer's turn, but for both players. Then, when the player's next turn began, there would be no lag, but as soon as the next computer turn started, it lagged again. This carried over from one battle to the next, and persisted despite restarts/reboots. Odd, as it was working fine until that point, odder still it happens only in the computer's turn. Well, actually that isn't true: it also lags on the menu screen when loading/saving or quitting. It applies to other saves as well, and probably to scenarios, although I haven't checked that. Even odder, it has also begun in SPWW2, leading me to think the problem is with my computer, but it certainly is a WTF???
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If it has been working as expected, and now it is not then I would tend to think it is your computer that may have something going on with it.
On some Pcs, in full-screen mode there can be lags with the sound effects. But that would have happened from the start of playing the game when you first got it. That lag in sound in full-screen does not happen in windowed mode.
Try running in windowed mode, at desktop resolution and see if that helps or has no effect. Windowed mode is actually
faster than full-screen 256 colour palleted mode on modern PCs, i.e. the reverse of the old way.
Otherwise - what has happened that is new on your computer?. have you installed any new hardware or software?. Any updated e.g. drivers for video cards, anti-virus program definitions or new "extensions"?.
Perhaps it is happily downloading all 200 odds MB of Windows 10 for you (as MS is pushing hard for W10 now). I put the GWX utility on my windows 8.1 box to remove all the annoying Windows 10 nagging - I'll update when
I am good and ready. (As and when W10 can handle old-style windows help files,
then I'll update, as the Borland Builder IDE is pants without working help file documentation. The IDE works fine, but having to use Google to find online help instead of it just being there on F1 sucks).
Other than that - maybe a problem with your RAM, either faulty chips, or a memory stick that is coming loose.