REALLY slow ship movement on XP

Bralth · #1 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 ]

baetis · #2 March 12th, 2003, 02:08 AM

Does this help any?

Edit: Long link that the board didn't like.

Is this an AMD machine? If so did you install the 4 in 1 drivers? Like one of the posters in that thread, i've found that NOT installing the 4 in 1 drivers results in better, more stable performance (XP only, VIA KT333 chipset). XP comes with its own VIA drivers.

I've got a Ti4600.

Edit: Seems like the board doesn't like that link.

Just goto Groups.google.com and search for "XP slow 2D graphics". I don't think this is the games fault.

[ March 12, 2003, 00:14: Message edited by: baetis ]

PvK · #3 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

Bralth · #4 March 12th, 2003, 02:25 AM

I had animations ON for the good reason of knowing where all my fleets/ships are going, comming from etc.

Helps keeps you organized without memorizing everything.

3HattedDragon · #5 March 12th, 2003, 02:31 AM

I have two machines:

-p4 3GHz, ti4600, 1gig RAM running XP
-Athlon 1.2GHz, geForce3, 512mb RAM running Win2k

And ship movement is the same on both.

3hd

Katchoo · #6 March 12th, 2003, 07:16 AM

I have a dual-boot system with WinXP Pro and Win98. The ships definetly move faster under Win98 than under WinXP. It's a dual-boot system, so it's all the same hardware.

It's annoying more than anything, although I furrow my brow mightly when I play under Win98 and see the ships zipping across the screen...

dogscoff · #7 March 12th, 2003, 10:03 AM

I run se4 on two systems under XP. one is a high-spec 2.something desktop (work) and the other is a 1.4 Sony Vaio laptop (my own, my precioussss). On the laptop I've played se4 both before and after installing the 4 in 1 drivers.

Never noticed any irritating slownesses on either machine at any time.