Articulate Vlish posfan12 Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 This is a continuation of the other thread in the AV5 forum (though my problems are with AV4). I'm getting real poor performance in AV4 on Windows 7 64-bit depending on what is going on in the game. For instance, the game is choppy in the inventory, sell, buy and train screens. I am hardly able to select items to sell them or transfer them to other party members. The performance also drops when floating speech text appears above NPCs in towns and so forth. When the speech text disappears the game suddenly speeds up again. The menus that only have text in them don't seem to suffer from slowdown and work without problems. And as long as there is no floating speech text above characters the map scrolling speed is fine too. I encountered choppy gameplay in AV5 as well, but was able to solve the problem by setting the process priority to "above normal" in Process Explorer. Unfortunately this did not fix the menu slowdown in AV4, even on higher settings. I'm not sure what to do at this time. XP compatibility mode doesn't seem to help either. Tried re-installing the game with no luck. Specs: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit 2.2GHz single core Intel Celeron 450 GeForce 210 external graphics card GeForce 7050 mainboard chipset 3GB RAM DirectX 11 updated to latest redistributables (June 2010) SATA hard drive with lots of space Latest graphics and chipset drivers from nVidia (July 2010) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish posfan12 Posted August 7, 2010 Author Share Posted August 7, 2010 My hunch would be a DirectX issue, you can't install older DirectX versions on Windows 7 as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 you can try install DX 9 to Win 7, just download DirectX 9.0 End-User Runtime Web Installer and run it and then test again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish posfan12 Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 The problems still remain with the April 2011 nVidia drivers and the DirectX Run-Time Engine installed. [edit] Forgot to add that I've since upgraded to an nVidia GeForce GTX 460. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 your processor ain't that good for W7 64bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Yeah, that's a terrible processor. You aren't going to see much performance out of that video card with that CPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish posfan12 Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 Yes, I realized that belatedly. However, Avernums 5 & 6 run OK on the same system. (Especially Avernum 6.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 A5 and 6 use more gpu than cpu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish posfan12 Posted May 8, 2011 Author Share Posted May 8, 2011 Surely the system requirements for Avernum 5 are less than 2.2 GHz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 worked fine on old P3 (and old graphic card) so yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora MultiJoe Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I'd like to add I am getting the same issues on Windows Vista 32-bit. I'm using: Intel T6600 2 Duo 2.2ghz processor 4 gigs of RAM GeForce 9600m 512MB So in terms of raw system power there really should not be an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora ZzzZ Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Exact same issues, really poor A4 performance (especially inventory screens) A5 and A6 run perfectly. Intel C2D 1.8GHz 2 gigs RAM GeForce 8600m 256MB, updated drivers I think perhaps there is an nvidia geforce issue. I tested A4 with a DirectX11 Windows7 machine earlier today and it ran fine. Anybody have any ideas?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Honestly, this sounds like it could be something with file i/o. maybe you could try running A4 from a ramdisk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Jeff (the developer) has pretty admitted that there is a slowdown on newer Windows machines, and has basically said he has no idea what it is. Best thing you can do is make sure you're running Avernum 4 v1.01, and try running the game with no other programs running after rebooting your computer. If that doesn't work, on the Av4 support page, Jeff requests you send him your computer's specifications in the hope that he'll be able to pinpoint what's causing the slowdown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora ZzzZ Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Thanks for the replies, I will follow-up if a solution is found. I should also mention that the system I'm having trouble with is a WinXP SP3 with DirectX 9.0c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora ZzzZ Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Updated nvidia driver to 266.58 - helped a lot Started using 16-bit color mode - helped a lot A4 is now "choppy" in the inventory screens, pretty much running "normally" everywhere else, much more playable, I may end up buying this one too. Hope that helps previous posters and anyone else with the problem... I had to hold down the [esc] key for a full 2 seconds to get out of inventory screens. I'm still puzzled by the lag issue though, as stated earlier the hardware may be three years old, but A5 and A6 run no problem, as well as many more demanding games... just weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Yeah, my hardware is MUCH older than what you're using, and I didn't have any problems at all. It seems kind of random which machines are affected, hence why Jeff himself is unsure how to fix it. Glad that the driver updates and so on helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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