My opinion on why A6 runs slowly on old pc

[ottakoi]

I think it is the 'translucent effect' that makes A6 run slowly on old machine. In A6, the portrait panel, dialog boxes and the minimap all have semitransparent backgrounds that consume much of system resources. Like the newest Windows 7 and Vista.

 

I have an old laptop running G5 and the Demo of A6. It seems the two latest games use the same game engine. In G5, the backgrounds of the panels are black and opaque. And it runs perfectly. But A6 which has the translucent effect, runs really slowly on it, especially when a dialog box pops up. I've tried the "draw minimum" and fast mode, even have turned off the sound, and it runs just a bit faster, no significant improvement. Later, when I tried to move the portraits panel by clicking on the 'move button' the panel shrinks into a narrow bar, and all of a sudden, the cursor moves as fast as in G5! So I think if a 'disable translucent effect' option is provided, the game speed will gain a boost.