REALLY slow ship movement on XP

Bralth · #1 March 11th, 2003, 09:21 PM

On my WinXP supersystem (2.4ghz, 1gig ram, ti4600) animated ship movement is SLOW on the system maps, very very slow. God awful slow.

On my Laptop with Craptastic (tm) WinMe (600mhz, 256meg, ATI something or other) the ships move at a normal speed.

I like animated ship movement in the animated screen since it lets me keep track of whats moving where. If I set it to non-animated they just jump so keeping track is a pain with a big empire.

The rest of the game plays much faster as expected on a 2.4ghz vrs 600mhz system.

Any suggestions?

Mephisto · #2 March 11th, 2003, 09:23 PM

Try to remove any CD from your CD-ROM-Drive. This might help.

trooper · #3 March 11th, 2003, 09:53 PM

I've also noted a thing like that on my two PCs. Ships seem to move faster on my celeron 600Mhz than on my 800Mhz pentium III workstation (both running under windows 2k). That's quite strange.

[ March 11, 2003, 20:05: Message edited by: trooper ]

ZeroAdunn · #4 March 11th, 2003, 10:41 PM

It is an XP problem that has been there since gold was released. I don't know if it was ever resolved or not, you might want to do a search, there was a big thread about it when gold came out.

Foiden · #5 March 11th, 2003, 11:31 PM

Would this be an issue only on the full Version or in both the demo and the full Version? I've been playing the demo (my full copy should arrive tommorrow), and so far everything seems to move fine on my XP system.

Slick · #6 March 11th, 2003, 11:38 PM

All Versions of the game have slow ship movement under XP. I have tried everything I can think of to fix this to no avail. Basically, I turn on movement lines and fast movement and live with it. If anyone does find a fix, please post it here.

Slick.

baetis · #7 March 12th, 2003, 12:34 AM

I'm also using XP and have no problems.

I have a pretty good nVidia card, so maybe that helps (not like it gets much use

)

Captain Kwok · #8 March 12th, 2003, 12:44 AM

I haven't seen any problems on my laptop with XP...but I can't remember if I have ship move animation on or not...

Bralth · #9 March 12th, 2003, 01:18 AM

My card is the top of the line nvidia 4600 128meg (at least it was top of the line a few months ago) so its not the card directly causing a problem.

Well this is annoying

EDIT: Ok I checked the old Posts. No CD music/Sound = no help. Looks like a lot of people have had a problem with this. All I can say is I'm bummed. Its not a game killer by any means, but its REALLY annoying.

[ March 11, 2003, 23:30: Message edited by: Bralth ]

PvK · #10 March 12th, 2003, 02:08 AM

Of course, you did go to the game options and turned off "animate ship movement in system window"?

If that doesn't work, you could upgrade your OS to Win98SE.

PvK