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cweissha posted 02-16-99 12:30 PM ET
I have a P200 with an older 2MB video card. I have noticed that when the selected unit (flashing) is visibile, game performance is dramaticly reduced as evidenced by how fast the info screen is updated and how quickly menus come up. The 2.0 patch and switching to 800x600 didn't help though using the low res graphics helped some. Is there anything else I can do?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-16-99 03:17 PM ET
Usually, it's the amount of the map that's not blacked out that causes these types of slowdowns. Please verify though that v2.0 installed correctly (help->version number). For most, this problem vanished with v2.0, and my personal system is 200.
jkm
firaxis games
cweissha posted 02-17-99 07:59 PM ET
I do have version 2.0 installed. I have my task bar set to auto-hide and be always on top. When SMAC was running I could still move the mouse to the bottom of the screen and pull up the task bar. I changed the settings on the task bar to not auto-hide. The task bar wasn't visible from the game and performance improved some.
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Author	Topic: Graphics Performance
cweissha	posted 02-16-99 12:30 PM ET I have a P200 with an older 2MB video card. I have noticed that when the selected unit (flashing) is visibile, game performance is dramaticly reduced as evidenced by how fast the info screen is updated and how quickly menus come up. The 2.0 patch and switching to 800x600 didn't help though using the low res graphics helped some. Is there anything else I can do?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-16-99 03:17 PM ET Usually, it's the amount of the map that's not blacked out that causes these types of slowdowns. Please verify though that v2.0 installed correctly (help->version number). For most, this problem vanished with v2.0, and my personal system is 200. jkm firaxis games
cweissha	posted 02-17-99 07:59 PM ET I do have version 2.0 installed. I have my task bar set to auto-hide and be always on top. When SMAC was running I could still move the mouse to the bottom of the screen and pull up the task bar. I changed the settings on the task bar to not auto-hide. The task bar wasn't visible from the game and performance improved some.