Matrix Games Forums

ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown

Playing against the AI, I am finding that after about 2 turns the speed of the combat resolution and the response to my scrolling and mouse clicks becomes unbearably slow. My machine has a 1.3 GH celeron and 384 MB RAM, yet it is slow as a dog by about the 3 turn. I have to shut down the program and restart. Is this normal???

I have this problem. In fact the problem is so bad that the game would not install from the CD, it would just hang. I installed the game intially on a Intel Xeon running 512 MB ram and Windows 2000 and had no problem. Howevevr, when I transfered to a 3200+ AMD Athlon with 512 MB ram and Windows XP it would just hang when I tried to install from the CD. Eventually I had to transfer the exe to my hard drive and run it from there. And while it is installed it does seem exceptionally slow, especially to mouse commands.

I suspect my VM settings are to low for the game. Is there a recommneded VM size to run WitP

(Incidentally - I am running v1.4 of WitP)

Vm will not cause this ... the defaults are more then enough. One other AMD user relaxed the timing on his memory and it fixed everything up.

i run this game and any computer I own for that matter with crucial memory. I own twin 512 mb ballistix at 2-2-2-5 timings. Best memory for gaming imho, although others will argue OCZ is best. You may want to rule out a memory issue by running a program called memtest (www.memtest86.com).

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

Vm will not cause this ... the defaults are more then enough. One other AMD user relaxed the timing on his memory and it fixed everything up.

Thanks for the replies but memory timing is new to me. Could you explain some more and where I could find the appropriate settings

Go to http://www.rojakpot.com, select BIOS Optimization Guide, enter the guide and check the Memory Subsystem section. That's the best BIOS guide I know.
If you have a noname computer, when you start the PC press DEL and select Advanced BIOS Setup or equivalent, you should find the settings in your motherboard manual. There you will find things like DRAM Refresh Rate, CAS Latency Time etc. The most important is the CAS Latency, and that's where you should look. You probably have SDRAM memory, up it with 1, from 2 to 3.
For Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM machines you have to find which is the Setup key for your model, but many of them have a very inflexible BIOS and changing the settings is impossible.