Unfortunate problems of a surprising nature

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tinkthank said:
THank you.
I did have the GG open (for the tutorial), so that may have been something, and I am sure I was connected to the internet as well, and may have had a notepad open and Outlook Express as well, although I am sure I shut that. I did, however, make sure to start the game FIRST (as indicated in the "Tuning" section) and the other applications afterwards.
I notice no slowing in general with other applications when I have demanding things going on; I usually have iTunes open and listen to music when gaming (must ... hear ... music), or Pandora (streaming radio), but it is SPww2/mbt which bogs down, not the other apps.
thank you

If you read the "Tuning Your Machine" section then you read this line at the start....

"The game wants as much real memory as possible, so for optimum performance, especially on lower end machines, try to run the game with as few other windows programmes running in the background as possible."

Although your machine may not exactly be "lower end" you have problems running the game that no one else has.

We do recommend people "run the game with as few other windows programmes running in the background as possible"

So turn off all the other things you are running and see what happens.

Andy asked if you had defragged your HD lately.......have you?

He also asked you to try turning all sound off(including the keyboard mouse click)to check if this may be a sound card issue..... did you?

I asked you to check DXDIAG........did you? It's possible you may need to make adjustments. What version of Direct X are you using?. I told you my machine will start to bog down when I'm running a lot of things as well as the game but that's MY machine and it runs with far less RAM than your's does AND the game, even at it's slowest, does not even remotely behave the way you describe yours does after 15 minutes.


Run the game and ONLY the game and NOTHING else and see what happens

Don