Slow running game, questions

[Acenoid]

1)
if you have other apps running at the same time but you only use dom3 you can try to increase the process priority (open task manager from (ctrl + shift + ESC) then you select the dom3.exe in the processes tab, right click "process priority" -> then try above normal or high. Do not use "realtime".

2)
Also helps to defragement your harddisk

3)
besides video drivers other drivers could be outdated. check all of them. Update windows with all patches.

4)
check the autostart folder and the registry run / run services maybe there is software being launcehd at windows startup that you do not need.

5)
if the above doesnt help: try to disable your antivirus program while playing

6)
maybe you computer is also infected with malware ? try scanning it with a bootable antivir cd you got from a friend. (plenty of instruction are available on the net if you do not know how to create such a cd). Furhter in this direction you could scan it with "hijack this" for malicious software - there are online sites who automatically check the (complicated) program report.

Hope this helps.

[Acenoid]

ps regarding the nvidia cards - i think their new drivers suck too but i will not downgrade to older ones

[Morkilus]

My game runs horribly with the background animations on with my 512MB 8800 GT on Vista, with 2 gigs of ram. Go figure. At least I can turn them off, but it's ridiculous to have better performance with my older card and XP. I blame Vista, of course.

[Cor2]

I am running Vista, it works better than my xp machine. I had some problems starting out but it was due to my graphic card driver not supporting dominions GUI or whatever. Updated my driver and been great since.

I have heard several people complain about vista however, all i can say is mine is running faster than xp.

[theenemy]

My friend had the exact same problem. The only thing you have to do is to install the latest drivers for your graphics card. My friend tried to install those drivers like 5 times and suddenly it worked.