BigHungryJoe

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin is currently holding my attention. Again. I'm sure it's been mentioned here before, but every time I read this one I feel the need to gush. Oh, what the hell: it's quite simply my favourite novel. Go, read it now. No really, go. I'll wait here.

Ok, this new version is working much, much better for me - except, I am still enabling S3TC texture compression through graphics card settings in order to make the game playable. I was doing that with 1.0 anyway, but the game still slowed down in areas with lots of animated landscape features; almost all of that slowdown is gone now with 1.01. Oh, and Celeron 2.4, Windows XP home SP 3, and Intel 82845G onboard graphics.

I had the same issues - really bad lag in the menu, and the game was unplayable once I got into a fight. The common thread with your problem seems to be that I was also trying to run the game on a system with onboard graphics. Here's how I made the game playable: 1. Updated my drivers 2. (and most importantly) my card has a graphics properties tab where I can change the default OpenGL settings. I played around with it, and found some settings which decreased visual quality slightly (disabling triple buffering, anisotropic filtering, selecting 16-bit frame buffers, and just generally reducing texture detail) and the game performance improved dramatically. So it seems like there might be a problem with onboard video cards and the OpenGL processes the game uses. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be an easy way to run the game in software - so I'd suggest if you're having performance issues, try to adjust the OpenGL settings directly through your video card.

For anyone having trouble with the ftp: http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/ftp/win/Geneforge5Demo.exe This should bypass that.

Hooray for everything!

Quote: But does anyone remember a female slith having breasts (i.e. mammary glands -> mammal)? Strangely enough, the best defining characteristic of a mammal is that it has hair. All of the others are somewhat hard to check (sweat glands, baby teeth - damn, I must be a pretty poor ecology student if I can't remember more than that... ).