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BlobbityBlob
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The game's response to my keyboard inputs is quite sluggish. It's especially bad in systems where there are a large number of orbiting starships (to the point that it's virtually impossible to guide my ship), but also noticeable in melee, in the lander (making mining a serious chore), and even in conversation with other species. I'm running Windows XP on a PIII 700. I'm also using the loader with the fullscreen setting, resolution on 320 x 240, and 16-bit color depth.
Using OpenGL gives me a blurry double-image. Turing sound off or lowering sound quality doesn't help.
Any ideas?
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Michael Martin
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Hmm. What kind of graphics card? We haven't really changed the internals much from back when I had a Celeron 500 running Windows 98, and that could handle the settings you described...
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BlobbityBlob
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Well I closed all the applications I could and scanned for viruses/spyware (nothing showed up), with no improvement...any other ideas?
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BlobbityBlob
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Yeah, they're fine....and I don't have problems running any other games but UQM. It's a Radeon 7500. I read something somewhere about setting the priority for command-line programs, but I couldn't figure out how to set it for UQM...maybe that might help?
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« Last Edit: September 11, 2004, 07:30:06 am by BlobbityBlob »
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BlobbityBlob
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Well, I downloaded the current driver from ATI and still no help. I thought the problem might be my cheap sound card but I have the same problem even with sound disabled. Basically, I have to hold down any key I press for the program to respond, which results in 120 degree turns in spaceflight and "chunky" movement in general. I can't even respond in the dialogue box without holding down 'enter' for about a second or so. It's like the computer is way too slow or doesn't have nearly enough RAM, which I don't think is the case (700 mHz and 256 MB).
I really want to play this game, it was a favorite from back in the day. Thanks for your help so far, but hopefully someone will come up with something that works. Right now this makes absolutely no sense to me...
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Defender
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run these command lines, and not the loader.
-f -r320*240 -d32
tell me how it runs with that.
~DEFIANT
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« Last Edit: September 11, 2004, 10:10:16 pm by DEFIANT »
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Megagun
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You might try to clear up some disk space on the C-drive (or the one where windows is installed)
Also, you might want to unzip the 3 zips in UQM/content/packages to the UQM/content folder, and then remove them. I noticed that that slows the game down a bit on my 500mhz PC...
Trying to run the game without fullscreen might help, but I think you already tried that...
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BlobbityBlob
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MegaGun: I extracted those files and it helped quite a bit, although it's still a bit chunky. Thanks a bunch.
Defiant: OK, I'm an idiot. How exactly do I do that?
Thanks everyone for your help....
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Megagun
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There's two ways of how you run the commandline thing..
1) create a shortcut to the exe file (rightclick -> create shortcut), then goto the shortcut's properties and add -f -r320*240 -d32 to the location. Then, doubleclick the shortcut.
2) start->run and then run UQM with that commandline added to it, like:
"c:\program files\UQM\uqm.exe" -f -r320*240 -d32
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Defender
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just as Megagun said. the reason i said not to use the loader, is that by default the "graphics scaling mode" is set to advanced bi adaptive. this can easily tax your system. using the command lines i gave you, is low end system settings without all the "flashy" stuff. you could even change the -d32 to -d16. this changes the color depth. a lower setting may help here, but it causes problems with the graphics(at least on my system), so if it does, change it back to -d32.
also,when your using the Loader, check to see whats selected under "video": "graphics scaling mode'. if its "advanced bi adaptive", change the selection to "none". when i ran this on my older system, that setting caused all kinds of slow down.
let us know if that helps.
~DEFIANT
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