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