Geneforge 3 Lag

[CrystalBolt]

I have recently been playing G3, and lag has been happening in mass quantities. On the first island, it was fine. On the second, it started to happen a bit, but it wasn't much of a problem. However, when I got to Dhonal's Keep I was suddenly assaulted by lag. It happens more when I'm near other characters, especially moving ones, and it happens more when I have more creations, so it probably has to do with having too many animations at once.

However, my computer is new, bought around February, and it runs far more complex games smoothly. I can't understand why G3, a graphically simple game, is overtaxing my computer. G4 and G5 work fine.

I also have been unable to find a Fast Graphics mode or a DirectX mode. Is this something that was implemented after G3?

I've tried reinstalling, rebooting, etc. No change.

[The Mystic]

What's your computer's specs? (OS, graphics card & drivers, etc.)

[CrystalBolt]

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, ATI Raedon HD 4200 Graphics Card, AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor (3.0 GHz).

This is what I found for drivers. It makes no sense to me:

Main Driver: aticfx64.dll, aticfx64.dll, aticfx32, aticf

Version: 8.850.0.0

Date: 4/20/2011 3:07:48 AM

WHQL Logo'd: n/a

DDI Version: 10.1

Driver Model: WDDM 1.1

[Earth]

there are several posts about GFs lagging and no good fix, here's 1 tip: http://www.spiderwebforums.com/forum/ubb..._Gen#Post260307