Slow ships

Elowan · #2 August 25th, 2002, 01:58 AM

I'm basically having the same problem with an XP, P4 machine running at 1.8 GHZ and a TNT 64 video card.

My laptop runs at 1 GHZ, uses a GeForce 2 and the ships zip around as if they're on Geritol.

Go figure.

dumbluck · #3 August 25th, 2002, 09:03 AM

Heh. Is it a Dell? There have been some capatability issues with dell laptops in the past (although I think it was RCEs, not slow ships...)

Ragnarok · #4 August 26th, 2002, 05:46 AM

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Originally posted by dumbluck:
Heh. Is it a Dell? There have been some capatability issues with dell laptops in the past (although I think it was RCEs, not slow ships...)

Hmm, I haven't heard of this. My main computer is a Dell laptop. It's a Inspiron 8100 running XP. But I haven't had a bit of problem running SE4. No slow ships. Only get RCE's when I mess around with data files in my own little mod. Other then that it's fine.

dumbluck · #5 August 26th, 2002, 07:50 AM

HERE is a thread I found about it. All I did was a quick search for "Dell Hardware".

[ August 26, 2002, 08:02: Message edited by: dumbluck ]

DirectorTsaarx · #6 August 26th, 2002, 10:26 PM

I've noticed the same problems as everyone else; when I played SE4 on my old computer, the animation would move at hyper-speed if I'd been Online. I'm pretty sure the problem was the modem... The problem disappeared when I got a new computer.

Now, on my (new) work computer (Windows 2000), I have the super-slow ship movement animation issue. I turned off the animate ship movement option, and the problem went away; of course, now I can't watch my ships moving. Oddly, my Win2000 home system does NOT have the same problem, so I leave animate ship movement ON there... I figure it's a typical Micro$loth random bug, and deal with it

Slick · #7 August 28th, 2002, 07:13 AM

I have found a viable workaround (for me). I turn off "animate ship movement in system window" and turned on "display ship movement lines"

still shows me what I want to see. and now it is smoking fast.