Let me just start by saying: My computer is average. I meets the recommended areas for Galciv2. It has doesn't have a gig of ram(yet), it has 512. In Galciv2 I like to play in gigantic galaxies. It offeers more room for tactics and strategies. I like to play wth nine races with a high difficulty and lots of planets and stars. DL ran fine with these options selected. DA however, sucks with my computer. I can't even run three opponents on a large galaxy without it crashing. I even put DA in window mode. That hardly helped. On the odd occasion I was able to get to the process tree and finish it off with my good friend ctrl+alt+delete.
Step by step this happens: 1)I set up my gigantic galaxy with three opponents 2)Start the galaxy 3) After 15 minutes, I get the screen saying the humans invented hyperdrive 4) I click done and I am brought to the research screen half a minute later with tons of sound skippings 5) I am finally brought to the research screen I pick a tech and push done. 5) Usually where DA crashes but may get to the next step 6) Manage to get to the game screen click on ship. Lags 7) Manage to contain frustration and hit turn 8) Where the game endes. If I had the patients of god I might be able to go on, but I don't. 9) Can't manage to get to windows, lagging sounds is gratting on my mind. 10)Push power button. I get some satisfaction and I don't know where that satisfaction came from exactly.
The DA beta ran much much much smoother than the recent patches. The first just slightly hindered my computer's performance, but the recent one...well that just put the nail in this cpu's coffin. I'm sure I am sounding like a biggot ragging on stardock, but I am not. They made DL and that game was nearly perfect in performance. DA just sucks with my computer. I can't even manage to get a debug because I have to shut it down befor it can document what happened. Let me say again that I am not ragging on stardock, I like the ideas they put in DA just for some reason the performance has gone down the toilet. I probably made some people angry with this post, so do as you see fit.
