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Another slow performance question - 2/8/2022 8:10:33 PM

spence

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Until about a week ago everything seemed to be going OK BUT then all of a sudden the computer times out everry so often. It doesn't stay there too long but it is annoying. Anyways the movie doesn't play at the beginning of loading the game - that's not that annoying but I didn't tell it to skip the movie. Anybody got a solution to the delay? (don't especially care about the movie)

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RE: Another slow performance question - 2/8/2022 8:20:10 PM

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Have you tried saving the game, exiting and restarting? I only get slowdown and strange display issues when memory gets full and I need to restart to clear it.

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RE: Another slow performance question - 2/9/2022 5:34:23 AM

Chris21wen

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Have you recently updated Windows anyway?

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RE: Another slow performance question - 2/9/2022 11:12:02 PM

spence

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Windows 10 is nearly constantly updating automatically on my computer and in spite of that everything seemed to work fine with the game.

The skipping of the movie is more of a symptom than anything else. Right now the only switch I'm using is "-w" on the command line which worked fine until recently.

The delay that is most annoying is the cursor for the game going round and round for an indeterminate length of time every so often. It does this with 'no prompting' but I walk away from the game for a bit (like to walk the dog or whatever) the delay lasts longer. The other thing that happens when the cursor is doing its thing is the whole screen 'glosses over' (sort of fades) whenever I press the ESC key but then seems to recover after an indeterminate time.

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RE: Another slow performance question - 2/10/2022 5:51:10 AM

Chris21wen

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Yes I know I really meant change version. Windows no longer supports Media player but it can be downloaded separately. Have you tried including other switches and to me honest if -w is the only one you've been using then I think you've been lucky. Mine looks like this playing on 1920x1080 display.

-pxf1900 -pyf1000 -cpu4 -SingleCpuOrders -dd_sw -altFont -multiaudio -deepColor -skipVideo -archive -w

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