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...

Dracus · #7 March 15th, 2001, 04:39 PM

Actually
Yesterday my ships started moving from point A to point B so fast That I Thought that my intel 400 was for the first time in it's life running at super speed. I have the trace on and the sip movement turned on.
It was quite weird. Since my computer runs 18 hours a day and 3 people use it, I am not sure what was done before I got home. I will reboot the system this evening and see if the ships still move that fast.

Tacoe · #8 March 15th, 2001, 05:25 PM

Yes in theory its is well i watch star trek and read the books i dont remember where i read this in but each series brings the warp dimintions differently like warp 9 in TNG is faster then the warp 9 in TOS once i find that book illpost something on it but ill have to go through boxes to find it

mottlee · #9 March 16th, 2001, 06:08 PM

OK so warp 32 is a Trekie thing, was a igure that is ot mean real fast!, I do not have a Winmodem, I do not have the Play CD music on as far as all else I do not change the settings after I start (cheat)also this happens every so often and to do something to make it happen I can not. I do thank you all for the help I wish I was more a Compuiter geek so I could help with the inhansments that others are able to give.
Keep it up I enjoy the game totaly I am running 2 games at the same time and have not tryed to go H2H yet. <S> Mott

PsychoTechFreak · #10 June 2nd, 2001, 09:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Dracus:
Actually
Yesterday my ships started moving from point A to point B so fast That I Thought that my intel 400 was for the first time in it's life running at super speed. I have the trace on and the sip movement turned on.
...

Now I have got that problem also. What has changed ? I have upgraded the memory of my PC from 64MB to 192MB (400 Mhz). So I guess it has something to do with system performance.

Mottlee, do you run other background processes (like virus scanner, SETI)? Because it seems you don't always have the problem, maybe sometimes the PC is slowed down by other occupations of the computer.

This is not a big problem (for me), but maybe someone knows how to slow down the ship movement w/o loading several other programs in parallel ?