Warp Speed

mottlee · #1 March 15th, 2001, 06:19 AM

Has anyone else had this problem... when you restart a saved game the ships move at like Warp 32 only happens every so often I sent Email to MM have not heard back yet

Drake · #2 March 15th, 2001, 06:51 AM

I haven't come across this yet, but that may be because ships in SEIV don't have warp drives, and so can't go warp anything. Sure you've got the right game?

Deathstalker · #3 March 15th, 2001, 08:38 AM

Check your options, there is a button for 'animate ship in combat' and 'animate ship in main view' or something like that. If they are turned off your ship just goes to the next point , ie, goes very very very fast (warp 32)

. Just click the buttons back on. If this ain't it, then I have no idea.

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Tomgs · #4 March 15th, 2001, 10:00 AM

I notice the game moves faster when my modem is on. Some people say it goes faster when some sound programs are on also. It also goes very slow for me when I have been using my modem and then turn it off and start the game without restarting the computer. So I can run the game at 3 different speeds depending on the state of my modem

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Edit: I just tried it with my new computer (the old one died Last month

) with a hardware modem instead of a "Winmodem" it doesn't seem to affect the speed of the game so that problem doesn't happen to me anymore. Either that or the latest patch fixed the problem. Without replacing my old motherboard, and/or CPU I can't try it to see if it was the patch or better modem that fixed the problem.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 15 March 2001).]

PsychoTechFreak · #5 March 15th, 2001, 10:08 AM

Turn off the "Play music" function (options) if you don't have the CD in. This increased my ship animation speed a lot.

What is Warp 32 ? As far as I know Warp 10 is absolute maximum in theory, you are omnipresent (at every point of the universe the same time) with this speed !

[This message has been edited by PsychoTechFreak (edited 15 March 2001).]

DirectorTsaarx · #6 March 15th, 2001, 04:30 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Tomgs:
I just tried it with my new computer (the old one died Last month ) with a hardware modem instead of a "Winmodem" it doesn't seem to affect the speed of the game so that problem doesn't happen to me anymore. Either that or the latest patch fixed the problem. Without replacing my old motherboard, and/or CPU I can't try it to see if it was the patch or better modem that fixed the problem.

It wasn't the patch. I have 1.30 loaded, and still have this "bug" appear if I use the modem and then play the game. So it may very well be a winmodem thing...