I'm perplexed enough to ask the GalCiv community about why I experience a slow down when zoomed out during my movement phase. Frame rates drop to less than 3 when viewing a gigantic map from a very strategic point of view during my movement. All I see are icons, and I would have thought icons eat up less video card than watching the turns zoomed way in (tactically). When I have the ship/colony pop up screen going, my ships chug along at about 1 parsec per second, and it's a very noticeable chug.
Running PentM 2.26 ghz with a 256 meg geforce 7800gtx and 2 gigs of memory with a 7,200 ATA/100 hard drive. Using a relatively new nvidia driver (ver 97.92) for WinXP (SP2). Just trying to provide as much information as possible!
I'm also using the HARDWAREVP switch, beta version 1.6a, and in window mode.
DA planet survey variety is set to 25, follow ship movement is turned off, and here is the beginning of a debug.err:
Debug Message: Version v1.6a Dark Avatar last updated on: Wed Jun 13 11:50:00 2007
Debug Message: Checking DX Version.
Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.*********
System Info
Time: 6/15/2007, 13:11:26
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Machine Name: PB
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Midern
System Model: M570A
BIOS: BIOS Revision: 1.02.01s
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.26GHz
Physical Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 468MB used, 3471MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip Type: GeForce Go 7800 GTX
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0099&SUBSYS_05701558&REV_A1
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1920 x 1200 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Default Monitor
Monitor Max Resolution:
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.9792
Driver Date: 12/20/2006 18:29:00
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes
Sound info
Sound device 1:
Description: Realtek HD Audio output
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0880&SUBSYS_15580000&REV_1008
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Driver Name: RtkHDAud.sys
Provider: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Driver Version: 5.10.0000.5413
Driver Date: 5/10/2007 18:28:08
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 3
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Debug Message: *********END dxdiag info.*********
Debug Message: Entering WinMain
Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings.
Debug Message: Using hardware vertex processing
Debug Message: Using multilsample setting: D3DMULTISAMPLE_4_SAMPLES
Debug Message: Game Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Debug Message: Running in windowed mode.
Debug Message: HAL (hw vp): NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX
Debug Message: D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE
Debug Message: Refresh rate: 0
Debug Message: Bit Depth: 32 bit.
Debug Message: *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
Debug Message: A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
Debug Message: Border size reported as 6 by 32
Debug Message: RGB in format 6:6:6, Masks reported as ff0000:ff00:ff
Debug Message: Now windowed.
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: GalCiv2 is activated.
Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****
Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 369e99
Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
Debug Message: initailizing bink
