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August 23rd, 2002, 06:17 PM
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Re: Slow ships
Try this slick, I dunno if it has been suggested yet in this thread, so bear with me.
If you had Windows' Media Player 7.0 on the other computer, get it and install it on this one. Play a media file with it. Start SE4. Sometimes playing media player causes ships to zip around in SE4. Maybe you were used it it, and didn't notice the cause before.
Just a stab in the dark really.
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August 25th, 2002, 01:02 AM
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Re: Slow ships
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August 25th, 2002, 01:58 AM
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Re: Slow ships
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.
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August 25th, 2002, 09:03 AM
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Re: Slow ships
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...)
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August 26th, 2002, 05:46 AM
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Re: Slow ships
Quote:
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...)
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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.
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August 26th, 2002, 07:50 AM
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Re: Slow ships
HERE is a thread I found about it. All I did was a quick search for "Dell Hardware".
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August 26th, 2002, 10:26 PM
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Re: Slow ships
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 
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