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April 28th, 2004, 01:11 AM
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Re: SEIV Gold on XP?
I've never had a problem like that with Xp Pro. Strange.
Have you updated your videodrivers, DirectX (not that SE IV uses it, I think...), SE IV Gold?
Hope you can get it right.
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April 28th, 2004, 01:15 AM
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Re: SEIV Gold on XP?
The reason for the CD problem is that if you have game music on and the SE:IV or equivalent music CD is not in the drive, then the game is always checking the CD in the drive for what it wants causing this wierd slowdown.
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April 27th, 2004, 02:04 PM
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Re: SEIV Gold on XP?
Yeah i have this problem too. Although i find saving and restarting the game helps, next time i'll see if Kwok is correct  |
April 27th, 2004, 08:16 PM
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Re: SEIV Gold on XP?
Turning off CD music or leaving the CD in doesn't seeem to help any. It only occurs when having the ship movement animations turned on. All my drivers are latest and my hardware is easily enough for SEIV. Though since at least one other person here hasn't had the problem on XP Pro, I'm kinda stumped as to what it could be. Might be a video card thing, I'm using a Nvidia GeForce 5900XT. Anyone with either Nvidia or ATI cards getting the same problem?
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April 27th, 2004, 08:50 PM
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Re: SEIV Gold on XP?
This is a known issue with some installations of XP. There is not much you can do other than turning off the animations.
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April 27th, 2004, 09:06 PM
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Re: SEIV Gold on XP?
Quote:
Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
This is a known issue with some installations of XP. There is not much you can do other than turning off the animations.
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Oh well, I'll just have to scrape together enough parts to make a dedicated 98SE machine. Thanks anyway for the help everyone.
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April 27th, 2004, 09:06 PM
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Re: SEIV Gold on XP?
I have XP Pro and a Geforce FX 5200 and I have no problems, try running it in windows 98 compatibility mode.
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