Performance Hit after having Eye of Universe

I'm running GC2 on a 2 years old Acer laptop. I know my display driver is outdated, however the driver on ATI website does not support the Graphic card in my laptop, and the driver on Acer website is as old as the one in my laptop.

I usually play Medium or large map. And I'm experiencing significant performance drop ( draggy UI, longer than usual response after clicking on something etc) into Mid game after I get the Eye of the Universe, especially when AI are fighting wars. I have tried using smaller map (from large to medium), reduce the number of AI (from 9 to 5) but does not help.

Usually restarting the game will put the performace back to normal, but performance hit again after random number of turns.

Can somebody pls advice. Thanks.

My debug file:

Debug Message: Version v1.11 last updated on: Mon May 8 11:15:04 2006
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System Info
Time: 5/23/2006, 12:07:26
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Machine Name: WEEPIN
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Acer
System Model: TravelMate 290
BIOS: Insyde Software MobilePRO BIOS Version 4.00.00
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Physical Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 317MB used, 932MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS

Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip Type: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700 AGP (0x4E50)
DAC Type: Internal DAC(350MHz)
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4E50&SUBSYS_005A1025&REV_00
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Default Monitor
Monitor Max Resolution:
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6422
Driver Date: 1/27/2004 21:57:28
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes

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Sound device 1:
Description: Realtek AC97 Audio
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C5&SUBSYS_005A1025&REV_03
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Driver Name: ALCXWDM.SYS
Provider: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Driver Version: 5.10.0000.5420
Driver Date: 12/19/2003 20:07:50
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 3
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0

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Hi!
The slow-down is IMO induced by a lot more ships whose details your graphics card has to draw. Try zooming out to the "icon" level display and check the performance again.

BR, Iztok

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Seconded. Eye of the Universe can cause a performance drop because you see a lot more ships, planets and stations than you did previously. Zoom out so that the ships are represented by icons rather than the 3D models to greatly improve your performace.

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I have the same problem, my computer is fairly new and when i run large huge or gigantic maps it takes forever for the turn to end, and when i restart my computer its fine until a certain random amounts of turns, maybe stardock should make a performance patch because my computer should be able to handle anything this game can throw at it

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Is it possible to play with only the icon. i.e turn off all 3D models etc, to me they are only eye candy, i won't mind playing the game without them.

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Set the tactical view level to... Zero? Or the other way around? That controls when it switches between icons and models. I'm not sure which way you have to send it so just try it out.

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Kinda sounds like my problem ( https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=274&AID=117866 ). Have you tried ATi's Mobile Catalyst ( http://www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst/ ) ? Didnt solve the problem for me though...

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Drivers people, 2004+2003= poop. Go for ATI catalyst converter, and that should help.

But the Eye of the Universe does cause a major slowdown because you now have much more data to process.

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We've made some changes to how the planets are displayed that should help reduce this slowdown in version 1.2

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Turn off background stars and nebulae.

Set your tactical zoom level so that it turns to icons sooner.

Make sure you are zoomed out to icons before you hit TURN, then you can zoom back in if you want to afterwards.

Turn off pretty stuff like antialiasing.

I would also recommend getting a new computer, but I recognize that it's not always an option for everyone. Upgrading your existing one to 1GB and/or setting a much larger swap file (virtual memory) may help. The maximum that Windows XP will actually use is 4GB. If this doesn't help, you might have to just bite the bullet and get a new machine, or play smaller galaxies.

You don't need to have an AlienDell to get good gameplay, there are some nice notebooks out there for very few bucks...then again there is a sweet Alienware laptop with dual GeForce Go 7900 GS video cards for $2k ($1250 with 1GB of RAM, which is what I consider a mimimum). You could also go desktop for a lot less scratch if you don't absolutely need to carry your computer around.

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A Radeon9700 should be fast enough for GalCiv2 though.

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That's similar to the card I've got, try Link. They work *better* than the stock ATi drivers for me, although that could just be my card. I'm running on a 2Ghz Pentium M, double your RAM and my card has 2x the texture memory but I run this game at 1400x1050 and I have not run into any problems.

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