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Stormy Fairweather -> I wasn't sure at first, but performance has decreased since Legends (12/22/2011 11:06:39 AM)
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I didn't play Lost Worlds for the three weeks before the expansion, and I didn't even order mine for awhile after release, so I didn't really trust my impressions that the game was running slower after I installed the expansion at first. In ROTS the performance was good until I was in late game with multiple developed empires, but me being the intolerable perfectionist I am quibbled about the performance, relatively certain even now that my second rate computer should be able to run a game like this with no trouble at all. When I learned a performance increase was a part of the expansion I pretty much stopped playing due to the slightly stuttury graphics.
When I installed Legends after having not played ROTS for so long the sense the game was running worse I chalked up to my memory and a false optimism about how my computer compares. Annoyed by the performance I got after my install I did a number of things in an attempt to coax better results. I updated various drivers, tweaked various settings, defragged, ran gamebooster 3, eliminated all none core processes, and tried re-installing legends to a more 'root' directory on my windows partition. Nothing seemed to help; my cpu usage would hardly ever go above 2/3rds usage, and my memory was almost always below 50%, but the game ran poorly, with occasional 'rubber banding' where the game would fall behind itself and input, the fast forward to catch up. These are almost always very small, no more than a second, but combined with graphical stutters, lengthy pauses when opening menus and lag in both the mouse input and view of panning even a modest amount of systems has rendered this nigh unplayable for me. Even with a galaxy of 100 stars (max empires though) I find myself spending more time spent waiting for the game to catch up than playing it
During my reinstall I booted up ROTS to compare versions. It loaded in less than half the time, and while the games performance was disappointing in comparison to what I expect from my computer, it didn't have that rubber banding effect, the mouse felt much more responsive and the fps were unmistakably higher. Certainly playable, even if such things annoy my pretentious ass.
So, either whatever was done to improve the game for most systems has an opposite effect on mine, or there is something either very wrong or very incompatible with my particular computer and this expansion (and considering the ROTS performance compared to my relatively decent specs it might be with the entire game). So, if anyone sees something (possibly silly) I overlooked that explains this so I can fix it and play, awesome, if not than I hope my report and attached dxdiag will be of some help in the future.
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