Steam version updates for SEV.

Captain Kwok · #1 January 28th, 2009, 08:10 PM

You may be able to avoid flashes if you play in windowed mode, set video memory to safe, or be careful about running programs in the background that produce pop-up messages etc.

Xtacc · #2 January 28th, 2009, 09:59 PM

I had emailed MM about the Steam version before I purchased it asking specifically about that updates. I don't have the reply anymore, but Aaron stated that the Steam update is seperate and should be released in the near future. They (he) know that Steam is at 1.74, whether it's Steam or MM who isn't bothering to update it I don't know...

Xtacc · #3 January 29th, 2009, 12:07 AM

Sorry, didn't edit in time

It is the graphics that suffer through Vista. For me only when there are menus opened upon menus. Once I get 3 menus in (eg. Design -> create ship -> set strategies) the FPS drops from 35 in the system view -> 24 -> 20 -> 16 respectively. The ships menu on it's own is the worst at only 10 fps; right clicking on a ship from there drops to 6 fps.

I know SE-V is not a first-person shooter, but this makes moving the mouse annoyingly slow and choppy. No video settings can remedy this drop in fps. I'm really disappointing with this as I started playing SE-V before IV and really enjoy some of the features V added on. Also, that it seems this game has been ditched in updates; if it does receive one, the patch fails in addressing Vista compatibility.

I understand the System View is constantly active even with menus open, but for a mid-high end PC this shouldn't be this much of an issue.

Captain Kwok · #4 January 29th, 2009, 01:19 AM

SE5 uses DirectX8, which has to be emulated in Vista and results in the performance drop. Unfortunately there is not much that can be done, except to rewrite the graphics engine to DirectX10.