Tip: Full (or near full) screen Win 7 fix

[DRG]

Does anyone using Vista have this lag issue using this fix or is it confined to Win 7 ?

Don

[Imp]

Originally Posted by DRG

Does anyone using Vista have this lag issue using this fix or is it confined to Win 7 ?

Don

If I remember from following this seems restricted to Win 7 Pro & Ultimate with dual cores possibly. Win 7 home guys have reported it works fine so the issue might come from poor execution of the extras you get with Pro & Ultimate or the machine being set up badly with a bottleneck somewhere.
First though they need to see if lag is there on the standard game if not we know the fix is to blame but I am thinking its more likely that the standard game lags to.
If thats the case a visit to the Win 7 forums for a fix is the way to go.

[Nitro Cruiser]

Originally Posted by DRG

Does anyone using Vista have this lag issue using this fix or is it confined to Win 7 ?

Don

Don, prior to Win 7, I used Vista for almost a year. I never had any lag with SPWW2 or MBT (but please remember I'm not having it with Win 7 either).

I did have the lesser scrambled palette issue(smoke would appear blueish with red specks and the in game tool bar would have a blue background) occasionally with Vista. I would just hit the Windows key to minimize the game screen to the task bar, then re-expand the window. It would occur about a half dozen times or so over the course of a battle. Nothing definitive to know why it occurred. It would happen on both the player or AI turns. It could have been something to do with refresh rates (just a hunch).

That "method" of working around it stopped when I upgraded to Win 7. This was where the game opening screen (not the game options screen, it was always fine)would be almost unreadable. Never had any luck with any of the Windows property compatibility tweaks, and I must have tried them all.