WHAT have I done?

Possum · #1 February 25th, 2001, 04:40 AM

Help, my game is acting weird all at once.

My ships have always moved smoothly, on the strategic map, and now they are suddenly stopping in each hex along the way, which I find intensely annoying.

Any ideas WTF?

Marty Ward · #2 February 25th, 2001, 05:35 AM

Do you have the disk in? My machine does the same thing if the disk is not in.

Ubik · #3 February 25th, 2001, 05:52 AM

Hey Possum, I experienced both that and another effect thats precisely the contrary... movement starts getting pretty quick...

I found to quit and then load the game to be of no use... with time the thing just disapeared. I thinks its some kind of bug.

Daynarr · #4 February 25th, 2001, 03:21 PM

This problem usually happens when you check the 'CD Music On' option and have no CD in your drive. Just uncheck 'CD Music On' option in 'Options' menu.

evader · #5 February 25th, 2001, 06:01 PM

It is a memory problem. When you don't have enough memory then things like that happen all over your computer.

Close any programs you are not using.

Run a disfragmenter

Or just reboot the computer

See if that helps

jimbob55 · #6 February 26th, 2001, 02:41 AM

I think that you can change this by looking at game options and uncheck the 'animate movement' option.

DirectorTsaarx · #7 February 26th, 2001, 05:58 PM

I've seen similar problems if I play the game after going Online; somehow using the modem and/or a web browser (or maybe just the program my ISP provided for dialing in) does something weird to the computer, and it affects SEIV. If I reboot & restart SEIV, the problems go away...

alasyr · #8 February 26th, 2001, 06:07 PM

I think that one of things fixed in a latest patch (1.27) was a few memory leaks which could produce such effect as was described and some others as well.In my case I was getting weird massages on battle screen after playing a game for a couple of hours.After I restarted the game everything was fine again.

Triumvir Emphy · #9 February 26th, 2001, 06:44 PM

running a defragmenter isn't going to do anything for your memory problems. Closing the program might do it, but a restart is more probable.

Possum · #10 February 26th, 2001, 10:49 PM

Thank you all very much

OK, being an IS-weenie myself for the Last dozen years or more, I tried all the obvious stuff before posting here. I rebooted, checked available system resources, ran Scandisk, and all that crap before asking you all for help. And none of that had helped.

It was the CD Music thing. I had CD music turned on, and no CD in the CD-drive.

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