SEIV Gold on XP?

Solymr · #1 April 27th, 2004, 12:53 PM

I'm not sure if anyone else gets this but since its Lasted through two different installations of XP pro and various hardware updates I'm sure its not my machine. Basically whenever I move my ships or they move after turn generation, the game slows down to a near crawl. Not even my old P100 was this slow with SEIV so I'm just owndering if its only me having this happen or others are too and I need to start playing on my 98SE boot instead.

Captain Kwok · #2 April 27th, 2004, 12:59 PM

See if you have any foreign (i.e. not SE:IV) CDs in your CD drive. That is usually the culprit!

Timstone · #3 April 28th, 2004, 01:11 AM

I've never had a problem like that with Xp Pro. Strange.
Have you updated your videodrivers, DirectX (not that SE IV uses it, I think...), SE IV Gold?
Hope you can get it right.

Captain Kwok · #4 April 28th, 2004, 01:15 AM

The reason for the CD problem is that if you have game music on and the SE:IV or equivalent music CD is not in the drive, then the game is always checking the CD in the drive for what it wants causing this wierd slowdown.

Raging Deadstar · #5 April 27th, 2004, 02:04 PM

Yeah i have this problem too. Although i find saving and restarting the game helps, next time i'll see if Kwok is correct

Solymr · #6 April 27th, 2004, 08:16 PM

Turning off CD music or leaving the CD in doesn't seeem to help any. It only occurs when having the ship movement animations turned on. All my drivers are latest and my hardware is easily enough for SEIV. Though since at least one other person here hasn't had the problem on XP Pro, I'm kinda stumped as to what it could be. Might be a video card thing, I'm using a Nvidia GeForce 5900XT. Anyone with either Nvidia or ATI cards getting the same problem?