REALLY slow ship movement on XP

Bralth · #1 March 12th, 2003, 02:25 AM

I had animations ON for the good reason of knowing where all my fleets/ships are going, comming from etc.

Helps keeps you organized without memorizing everything.

3HattedDragon · #2 March 12th, 2003, 02:31 AM

I have two machines:

-p4 3GHz, ti4600, 1gig RAM running XP
-Athlon 1.2GHz, geForce3, 512mb RAM running Win2k

And ship movement is the same on both.

3hd

Katchoo · #3 March 12th, 2003, 07:16 AM

I have a dual-boot system with WinXP Pro and Win98. The ships definetly move faster under Win98 than under WinXP. It's a dual-boot system, so it's all the same hardware.

It's annoying more than anything, although I furrow my brow mightly when I play under Win98 and see the ships zipping across the screen...

dogscoff · #4 March 12th, 2003, 10:03 AM

I run se4 on two systems under XP. one is a high-spec 2.something desktop (work) and the other is a 1.4 Sony Vaio laptop (my own, my precioussss). On the laptop I've played se4 both before and after installing the 4 in 1 drivers.

Never noticed any irritating slownesses on either machine at any time.

Daynarr · #5 March 13th, 2003, 09:45 AM

You can try to use Win 98 compatibility mode. This is how to do it:
Make an icon of SE4 - right click on it - select properties - select compatibility - check "Run this program in compatibility mode for" box - select Win 98/Win ME - click apply.

It could solve the problem.