Game Lag and performance issues

[Jethro2308]

I just bought the game during the sale, when I try to play it the Framerate drops to 5-10, even after setting all graphical setting at the lowest point I still see no improvements in the frame rate.
Is there any way to fix this??

[Bunnypod]

Alright I tried that everything, but how can that work with mods on the GOG versions that require a shortcut? Is there a way to fix the lag issue? I really hate this FPS drop.

[dadstick]

BDK původně napsal:

BDK původně napsal:

Alright so I re-installed the game to investigate and sure enough it's a hz issue. The game is trying to render more than what your monitor can handle, so if your monitor is 60 hz it jumps back and forth between 59 and 61 hz which will result in a stuttery low fps feel.

Once again, my trusty OSD fixed it completely.
Here's a link to a pre-configured installer which will cap your fps to 60 (you can change it if you want). Just run it before or while you game and enjoy butter smooth framerates. No need to do any kind of affinity tweaking.

Download

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_DiTZFt_h35MENZTUlTRVBiZDg/view?usp=sharing

Virustotal report (a.k.a. it's safe)

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e07c80424d6be5841987755596af2adc8d3a100bc1cd7e1c8fce806639528969/analysis/

Enjoy!

Updated version should work with Windows 10 CU and newer. Not as effective as the old one though.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_DiTZFt_h35MGJ6Mlk3dGFQbXc
Virus Total report: https://virustotal.com/#/file/1a8b1e2eaa7fbd55dfc3413477ffea67aefd7f6523c3edd5cc0529d3a934233e/detection

I can't run your FPS limiter on my win 10 laptop. I could only see an error message.

[Neltharion]

BKGSanny původně napsal:

Assuming you have a quad core CPU, this game was built for a single/dual core, hence your processor is limiting the game. To fix this you need to set the affinity of the process to make the executible use 1 core only, not 4. This should fix it.

How do you do that ?

[Hodor]

NB74110 původně napsal:

BDK původně napsal:

Updated version should work with Windows 10 CU and newer. Not as effective as the old one though.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_DiTZFt_h35MGJ6Mlk3dGFQbXc
Virus Total report: https://virustotal.com/#/file/1a8b1e2eaa7fbd55dfc3413477ffea67aefd7f6523c3edd5cc0529d3a934233e/detection

I can't run your FPS limiter on my win 10 laptop. I could only see an error message.

Hey, he posted a windows 10 one just above your comment, it just got hidden on the third page. lol

[Baby D'no]

So I've tried the CPU and the FPS tracker. I'm playing galactic conquest and my frame rate is good until an hour or two into playing the game. then my frame rate drops from a constant 30 (which is what I have my frame rate limited to) and now its jumping between 15 and 25. When I speed up game time it drops as low as 2 fps. This is only in the galactic map. the game runs swimmingly in battle. The results don't change much with graphical settings all the way down. At this point i'm kinda out of ideas. I've tried troubleshooting but when it asks me to test the program after trying the "Test program" option I get a Binkw32.dll error and I cant start the game so I don't go through with the troubleshooting. My game is completely unmodded and again its only the galactic map that does this. any fixes out there for me?

[debbieandcory]

what were you thinking, i could of helped too, since i am an old pro.

[Valium Viktor]

I have done that affinity thing and now it wont start anymore.... and cant change it cause i cant get to the process since it doesnt even start.

[Nomada_Firefox]

Jethro23 původně napsal:

Here's my computer's specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 8670M
CPU Speed: 2.3 GHz Performance Rated at: 4.6 GHz
RAM: 6.1 GB
Display Maximum Resolution: 1366 x 768
OS: Windows 8.1 (Build 9200) 64-bit

Ignoring how poor and unbalance is this computer, there is not a computer which it can move the game without nothing of lag. The game is bad depurated from the begining and you can buy the best hardware but you will see lag at some point, specially if you play mods which they puss the resources more far.

Remember this game does not use more 2GB RAM and a single core. The unique thing which it increases a lot more the performance is the graphics card, specially at battles but not too much in galactic mode where you can see lag easily if there are many planets and units.

Anyway, clearly you have a laptop and if I can wait lag with a desktop computer i5-4690K GTX1060 6GB, you can not wait anything better.

[Khyron]

Windows 8.1? What the ♥♥♥♥ man use the free upgrade to Win10! I finally did it a few weeks back from Win7 because Oculus demanded it.

[Nomada_Firefox]

I use w 8.1, just because I installed it 3 years ago and I am not interested at reinstall all my programs again.

[diego96]

Posting for any future Intel HD user trying to play EAW (not FOC):

Simply rename your sweaw.exe in your GameData folder to swfoc.exe.

The newer game exe is better optimized for some dumb reason. I spent way too much time looking into .xml files when the solution was really that simple.

[carnage]

I would love to set the cpu cores but i get always a white screen if a tab out of the game. i have tried setting everything to win xp compability (as said in this forum) but nothing helps

[Metadeth901]

Who the hell comments here then deletes the same comment? IF YA GONNA NECRO THIS THEN DO IT PROPERLY

[Nomada_Firefox]

II-6thLa(A)Rct. Sanny původně napsal:

Assuming you have a quad core CPU, this game was built for a single/dual core, hence your processor is limiting the game. To fix this you need to set the affinity of the process to make the executible use 1 core only, not 4. This should fix it.

Never dual core. This game is from the Pentium IV time era, it uses just one single core and 2GB Ram.

But it is not the problem with lag. If you did not play the game at 2006, you would not know how it was very badly depurated and it added a lot of lag playing specially galactic mode. In space battles depends from many things.

Anyway, it is the unique game in the world with these features galactic mode/space battles/ground battles/full modding. Without them it had been forgotten years ago.:)

But recomendation, you should create a game profile in your graphics card and use the vertical sync, at least with settings as adaptable, fast sync or enhanced sync, it depends from your graphics card but you should see some of these settings.

You do not need strange files for to set the frames in a special level.

[[ZZBB] EFEndariAn]

Win98 compatibility mode solved it for me!! Now it runs smooth as silk