Slow ships

[oleg]

Originally posted by Andr&eacutes Lescano:
I don't know the reason or if can be aplicable to solve your problem, but I found that I had the opposite problem (animations showing super-fast) if I'm playing midi music in the background.
Sometimes it even happens if I had runned a game with midi music before.

Yes, it happened to me too. Have to restart computer every time I listed music or watch any video prior to loading SE. Even some games like Age of Wonders trigger super-fast animations.

[Slick]

Here are my specs:
win xp. keep smiling.
P4 2.4something
512 mb ram
geforce 4 ti 4600 w/128 mb
se4 gold, no mods, updated to v1.78 (or whatever latest is)

as expected, everything runs smoking fast except ships in the system window. Much slower than previous computer. fast combat is fast. everything is fast except ships moving in the system window. when i turn off fast combat, the speed of ships in the combat window is the same slow speed.

I have tried:
complete reinstall
killing off all other programs except systray and explorer(with task manager)
lowering video resolution
turning off all sound and cd music
editing settings.txt to make cd music false
having the original se4g cd in and out of drive

all these have had no effect on the problem or anything else.

everything else in the game really runs fine but i really hate turning off the ship animation since it helps me keep track of what is going on, but waiting for all the ships to move is making me want to quit playing.

is the game sensitive to installing using a specifically designated cd rom designation? mine is E:\ vice D:\ as is more common.

I remember having this problem on old computer (P2, win98) and somehow fixing it soon after initial install. and I somehow remember it had something to do with sound/music but for the life of me, I can't remember or reproduce the fix.

[Arkcon]

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.

[Slick]

bump

[Elowan]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.