running slow

[bstarr]

I just repurchase WITP for my new computer and the game is running VERY slow. This is happening during planning phase, when I press a button, the computer takes one to four seconds to register what I've done. Not a huge issue, I guess until you consider that it now takes me about ten minutes of frustrated pecking to build a decent task force. This can't be right because my old computer was a piece of shit and had no trouble handling it. I've got windows 8 and a widescreen monitor, if that make's a difference. I'm an incredibly inept moron when it comes to computers so it could be something simple that I'm doing wrong.

[Alfred]

No way anyone can help without details of your switches.
 
Alfred

[witpqs]

There are lots of threads about people upgrading to or buying a new computer with Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10. Have a look in some of the many very recent threads in this tech support sub-forum and you will 99.9% likely find what you need to do.

[wdolson]

If your old computer had a single core processor, some of the DirectX calls used by the game have problems with multicore processors and some video cards. It causes the game to run glacially. The command line switches will fix the problems about 95% of the time.

I think we need to make a sticky thread for command line switches.

Bill

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

If your old computer had a single core processor, some of the DirectX calls used by the game have problems with multicore processors and some video cards. It causes the game to run glacially. The command line switches will fix the problems about 95% of the time.

I think we need to make a sticky thread for command line switches.

Bill

Please do, I am yet again on a quest to re-do mine and now have to find that thread again... *sigh*