Curious Artila Ladonna Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Hello, I downloaded Geneforge 1, and not long into the game, in certain sections of the first areas, the game is suffering large slowdowns as to make the game unplayable. My PC: AMD64 3400+ 2.5 GB ram Geforce 7600GT 256mb Soundblaster live. XP home SP2. I have tried all the tips on getting the game to work posted at this website (Redownloading, drivers, etc) and to no avail. All of my other games work fine (Avernum 4 works fine, and my demo's of the other Avernums also work perfectly). I have read other posts in here with similar problems, but no solutions. I am wondering if any solutions have been found? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Leftover Sauerkraut Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 (This needs to be moved to Tech Support) Are you running it in the right resolution? And are there any antivirus programs that would interfere with it running in the background? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Aequitas Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Mod, any mod, please lock this thread and/or move it to TechSupp, please and thank you. That doesn't make much sense. If A4, a much newer and powerful game works well, why would G1 mess up? Perhaps your virus software is acting up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Oh look. It's a recurrence of the problem that "doesn't exist." THis is the first time I've heard of it happening in GF1 though. It's odd that A4 works. More people have had this problem with A4 than any other game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila Ladonna Posted April 20, 2007 Author Share Posted April 20, 2007 Hi guys On my gaming PC, which is offline, I don't actually use an Antivirus program. No need. I have no idea why this happens. I have tried redownloading on two different PC's and then playing them on mine. I have tried restarting PC. I have tried updating and going back in drivers... Honestly, I have tried a lot of things. My next attempt will be downloading the demo from Manifesto games and seeing if this works.... Also, as I have said, A4 does work fine. GF1 doesn't. Consequently I bought A4 and am having a ball.... Anyway, I am going to download GF2 and 3 and test them as well. Please help me with this problem. I don't know why this is happening, but it is, and I don't have this with any other game (As yet, let me check the other GF games). Edit: There is one other post in here where a guy seems to be having the same prob with GF1. In it Jeff says he will look into but then the thread was never posted in again. http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000782 There you go. When I get back home, I will replay the area in which the slowdowns happen and explain fully EXACTLY where on the map they happen. Hopefully this will give you guys something to really look at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 This problem does get reported from time to time. It is rare, and it can happen with any game. Everything I've seen about it before makes me strongly believe that it is not a bug in my code. (If it was my bug, it would happen much more often, because everyone would have it, and it would probably happen a lot more in one program than others.) It could be caused by many things. A bug in someone else's driver. A 3rd party application. An operating system glitch or corrupted file that keeps old graphics resources from being properly dropped from memory. I have no idea at this point, and all i can suggest is to stick with the games that are working on your system. Oh, and someone mentioned that more people with Avernum 4 seem to have this problem. As I have said in the past, the reason there are more people with problems with Avernum 4 is that more people play Avernum 4. Sorry I can't be of more help, and I hope Avernum 4 works out for you. :-) - Jeff Vogel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila Ladonna Posted April 21, 2007 Author Share Posted April 21, 2007 Why not make a database of the systems used by people when they have this problem? Perhaps a correlation can be seen that will help point out what the cause is, or at least narrow down the options. Even a collected list in a thread stickied at the top of this forum might nail something down if everyone with the problem posts in it. Not home yet. Will try out GF2 and 3 then and report back, I am determined to try getting GF1 to work as the few moments I spent with it intrigued me. And yes, A4 has been a blast so far thanks Jeff. You earned your gold on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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