new pc help plz.

kenster9119 · #1 November 25th, 2004, 12:03 PM

ive just upgraded from a 2gig athlon xp to a 3 gig xp 64 bit edition cpu,board is a asus k8n,512 kingston mem,256 ati 9600 radeon,with the old system space empires ran fine,now with the new one its really slow as in my ships take longer to move and when i click to build things i have to click a few more times for it to register and add things to the queue,but the new halflife 2 and need for speed underground 2 just fine at nearly max settings,and ideas would be great,ta.

Timstone · #2 November 25th, 2004, 12:22 PM

I noticed the same problem when I first ran SE on my new system. Just learn to live with it.
Fortunately the slowing down of the game isn't that bad.

Arkcon · #3 November 25th, 2004, 12:33 PM

This comes up once and a while, some suggestions:

Reboot, and see if the problem is still there. Sometimes, if you've run Window's Media Player once before you run SE4, video is slow in SE4.

See if CD music is the cause. Maybe you could play CD music on with your old system, but a slowdown on your new, better, system could be due to a diferent hardware interface. If CD music is on, be sure a data only CD (for example, anither game) isn't in the drive. That really slowed down SE4 when I upgraded to WinXP

Tweek some random video settings or SE4 settings. Beats just living with the problem.

kenster9119 · #4 November 25th, 2004, 12:37 PM

thax for the replys,i will play with all the settings i can find to try and figure the prob,it makes no sense that an UPGRADE should slow just this one game down and speed all the others up.lol

Timstone · #5 November 25th, 2004, 12:58 PM

Why wouldn't it make any sense?
I tried playing Blood 2 on a computer with Win '98 and a 3,0 GHz processor under the hood. It was soooo slow you could classify it as permanent bullettime, or something like a gelatine atmosphere.
The computer tends to spread the workload, so it spreads the small amount of work that SE requires over an enormous amount of subprocessors. The distributing and combining of the information takes longer than if only half those processors were involved in the work. It's just the nature of the beast. 3,0 GHz processors weren't designed to play SE, they were designed to play Unreal Tournament or Doom 3 on full settings.