Dear Ironclad folks

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I am playing this on a 3 year old laptop with the following specs:

Intel Pentium M725 @ 1.6GHz, 400MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache

ATi Mobility Radeon 9700, 64MB at stock clock.

512MB DDR RAM

I am playing with all details on, 1280 x 768 (wide screen) resolution, high ship quality and extras, high planet quality and extras. Definitely playable, although requires a person with patience. Only trouble I have is load times and the framerate killer which is the research screen for some unknown reason. For Ironclad folks out there, may I enquire as to why the research screen acts so strangely? It is highly unresponsive. Now that I think about it, the cursor was moving normally so it isn't a framerate issue. I have to hover over an icon for about 3 seconds, click, and wait another 3 seconds for it to register the click.The cursor and what is going on behind the screen is totally unaffected. I've engaged in battle with a hundred ships at said settings and there's no noticeable lag.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
You should probably email their support directly at [email protected], you're likely to get a response quicker that way. I've not heard of this specific issue posted before.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Now that you mention it my cursor becomes kind of unresponsive after a while too. I'll be doing things like upgrading capital ships and if I don't leave the cursor in place for a second or two before and after I click, I'll probably get the wrong one.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I have seen this issue in the some of the other menus.

I go to click on something to build and get the one next to it instead. I always though it was just lag.

But after reading this I think it is a bug.

;)
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
i have the same issue...but i may be unlucky as i have many other problems...dont forget that when you are at the research screen, the computer is working that much more as there is still aciton in the background
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
I've noticed the same issue with on screen buttons of all kinds.

Mostly in the late-game when I'm trying to mass-click all the planet upgrades, build all my buildings, and all my hangar/fighters at once, and the click event checks the mouse location about a second late.

So I click and move, and it registers the mouse click about a second later when I've moved to a different button.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
512MB DDR RAM


Just as a thought... the amount of RAM you have does seem to be a bit on the low side, even for running basic WinXP. I'd suggest either adding more, or changing your RAM for a total of at least 1 Gb.

Your machine may be spending all it's time swapping pieces of the game between the disk and memory trying to keep up with you.

Regards,

WC



Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Perhaps you should be turning down the effects to medium and maybe even the resolution a bit. A computer that old and not all that capable but having everything turned up and expecting it to be smooth is expecting a bit much.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
From what was described, your PC has too little system and video RAM to handle those graphics settings. What's it sounds like is that you're running out of RAM and the data's being swapped to your hard drive's disk cache. This will slow things down a lot.  Either turning down the graphics settings or buying more system RAM should help.
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