Hi,
Geneforge runs excellently on my laptop, a 2ghz Centrino running Windows XP Home. However, when I install the demo on my desktop PC, a 3ghz Athlon running Windows XP Pro, there's noticable slowdown when there are more than three or four animated sprites on the machine. People, creations, animated fire, just slows the mouse pointer and character movement right down.
Also, I notice that Geneforge 1 on the laptop seems to be taking 100% CPU despite not actually doing very much at all. While a lesser concern than the slowdown on the desktop, it's generally not healthy on my battery life.
I've tried closing all other running programs and I recently did a full virus / spyware sweep. Other programs (Oblivion, for example) run excellently.
Thanks,
Michael.