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Old August 8th, 2003, 05:24 PM
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Is there a reason SE runs slower in combat on XP than 95 or 98????
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Old August 8th, 2003, 05:41 PM
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I have not noticed this when I upgraded from Win 98 to XP. I have noticed a speed up and slowdown of SE4 in Win98 if Media Player has been run before. Check XP settings, reboot, upgrade drivers, etc, but you know all that. This would be a tough one for MM to tyr to nail down, so poke around your system and then let us know what you can find.
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Old August 8th, 2003, 05:53 PM
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Well I can not mess with the XP system (work computer ssshhhhh!) but the main trouble is in Tac combat (I run not AI) ships move slow here but is small bug
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turn off animate ship combat
turn on fast combat

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(the speed difference is most likely due to difference in graphics cards and cpu's for work vs home)
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Is there a reason SE runs slower in combat on XP than 95 or 98????
Does anything run faster on XP?? I thought it was pretty much normal that any new OS from MS would slow your system down.
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Is there a reason SE runs slower in combat on XP than 95 or 98????
Does anything run faster on XP?? I thought it was pretty much normal that any new OS from MS would slow your system down.
Well, my 3D stuff runs faster on XP. I believe W98 had a limit of 256MB ever able to be allocated to one app. That's a restraint in a lot of 3D programs. With XP, my apps will suck up the full GB (or whatever is unused)... .
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Old August 8th, 2003, 08:06 PM
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turn off animate ship combat
turn on fast combat

enjoy

(the speed difference is most likely due to difference in graphics cards and cpu's for work vs home)
Hmmm lets see..Home 200 MMX 16meg Voodoo card work 2 gig pros not sure what this Dell have for Vid...it is running in a different rez than home just thought of that, Thanks all
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