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The Original Red Dog posted 03-08-99 04:09 PM ET
I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same speed problems I am. I have a K6-2 300 and 128 meg of ram, I'm running 640x800 with low res graphics, I defrag my hard drive regularly, but SMAC still grinds nearly to a halt by 2160 or so. I've enabled every option to speed the game up, but some turns still move slower than diseased livestock. Am I cursed or what? I'm wondering if SMAC runs anywhere near the speed CivII did when it came out?
tOFfGI posted 03-08-99 04:18 PM ET
You are Cursed!
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey posted 03-08-99 04:20 PM ET
You are cursed! :P
'Nuff said
Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general,
YYYH
Rong posted 03-08-99 04:21 PM ET
I have the same CPU and amount of RAM, under default options (standard graphics etc.) it works like a charm. Towards the end (2350) it crashes a little but that's mainly because of sound (damn SB Live).
Which size of map are you playing on? I found huge maps to be substantially slower than standard maps.
This may sound stupid but how are other programs running, like netscape? Could be some part of your hardware or OS is not optimized.
BTW, this is better posted to the support and troubleshooting forum.
StargazerBC posted 03-12-99 05:06 AM ET
Come to think of it I have noticed my AC game running slower after I installed the 2.0 patch. Btw, P2-266, 64 meg SDRAM, 4 meg vid, etc. I don't know if it's b/c it's a notebook running at 800x600 SVGA. No other apps running. I thought it's slowing down because the computer is using more resources [to play at Transcend level], but the same 5.7 sec delay in turn and .4 sec delay in moving units from square to square occurs even at Citizen level. <shrugs> I just might reinstall to clock AC in version 1.0. Reminded--I'm lazy as hell on a sunny afternoon
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Author	Topic: Anyone elses game run extremely slow?
The Original Red Dog	posted 03-08-99 04:09 PM ET I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same speed problems I am. I have a K6-2 300 and 128 meg of ram, I'm running 640x800 with low res graphics, I defrag my hard drive regularly, but SMAC still grinds nearly to a halt by 2160 or so. I've enabled every option to speed the game up, but some turns still move slower than diseased livestock. Am I cursed or what? I'm wondering if SMAC runs anywhere near the speed CivII did when it came out?
tOFfGI	posted 03-08-99 04:18 PM ET You are Cursed!
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey	posted 03-08-99 04:20 PM ET You are cursed! :P 'Nuff said Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general, YYYH
Rong	posted 03-08-99 04:21 PM ET I have the same CPU and amount of RAM, under default options (standard graphics etc.) it works like a charm. Towards the end (2350) it crashes a little but that's mainly because of sound (damn SB Live). Which size of map are you playing on? I found huge maps to be substantially slower than standard maps. This may sound stupid but how are other programs running, like netscape? Could be some part of your hardware or OS is not optimized. BTW, this is better posted to the support and troubleshooting forum.
StargazerBC	posted 03-12-99 05:06 AM ET Come to think of it I have noticed my AC game running slower after I installed the 2.0 patch. Btw, P2-266, 64 meg SDRAM, 4 meg vid, etc. I don't know if it's b/c it's a notebook running at 800x600 SVGA. No other apps running. I thought it's slowing down because the computer is using more resources [to play at Transcend level], but the same 5.7 sec delay in turn and .4 sec delay in moving units from square to square occurs even at Citizen level. <shrugs> I just might reinstall to clock AC in version 1.0. Reminded--I'm lazy as hell on a sunny afternoon