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Fledgling Fyora

Fledgling Fyora (1/17)

  1. Originally Posted By: Micawber Sorry I wasn't able to help. No problem. You gave plenty of useful suggestions! Going to try a system restore today or tomorrow. It's been a while since I defragmented as well. My computer could use an all-around clean-up.
  2. Originally Posted By: Micawber Did you actually change the DirectX settings? Yup, I did. And I have the latest drivers as well...
  3. Thanks for the reply Micawber. Putting the game under compatibility mode for 98/Me didn't do a whole lot, but changing it to 95 seems to improve things a little. Other than that, I already changed the setting to favor high performance instead of quality long before I started playing Geneforge. Changing the CPU affinity didn't do the trick either, nor did changing the priority of the process... As it stands now, performance is a little better, but still very annoying. Still not sure if this warrants a purchase unfortunately. I guess could try starting with more recent games, but I would probably feel like I was missing out on a bunch of stuff, and Geneforge 1 does seem like one of the more interesting games in the Spiderweb catalog. Starting out with Avadon doesn't seem like a good idea either, don't want to get TOO used to that lovely interface
  4. Hi, I've wanted to purchase a couple of Spiderweb games for a long time now, and I figured that now they are having a nice sale this month, I might as well pick up the entire Geneforge Series. However, I was doing a small test-run of the demo yesterday evening when I figured out the performance was pretty abysmal. I have played many Spiderweb demos before on older machines, and they always worked fine. The problem is that the framerate drops dramatically whenever animated sprites appear on-screen. It's pretty bad when me and my single creation are walking around, but whenever an enemy or two appears, things get extremely irritating. Whenever I'm navigating menus or not looking at animated sprites things work just fine. For the record, I'm running the demo on a laptop with Windows XP Service Pack 3 using a pretty powerful graphics card (at least, for Geneforge standards), the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M. Any ideas on what might be causing the problems? I'm assuming the demos all contain the latest patches? In this state I'm afraid I won't be able to buy the game, which of course makes me very sad. Thanks in advance, TheGameSquid
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