Animation speeds

[Ananym]

I recall this game being effectively unplayable on nearly all windows vista+ machines due to interesting clock-speed based bugs with certain gameplay critical animations, such as urchin catchers and god interactions.

Is there a reliable fix yet?

[Laptop]

Originally posted by la_nague:

they put this game on steam like 2 years ago.
They take money for it.

I expect it to run on CPUs that people have when they released the game on steam


the game has NO WARNING on the store page. It says its 100% compatible with all modern CPUs and win 10.

It is?

[Happiii]

2018 and the gods animation are slow as ♥♥♥♥! hope they can fix this

[Skeev]

I doubt that they would really try...

[Lenzgo]

i dont have any problems. maybe there are bugs which i dont know but they dont make the game impossible to play. i played through all the missions on hero difficulty without noticing anything, so you can definitely play the game and have fun.

[aquarius.chan]

I also have the problem with the slow gods animation. Annoying - I can't believe they still did not make the fix! They are selling it!

[kurtis_connell93]

Originally posted by Lydia XIII:

Its a game that came out in 2000, 18 years old calling it 'abandonware' is idiocy, this came out long before people began to keep expecting games to be perpetually maintained and instead got a game as it was on release, with sometimes a patch later to fix some bugs.

This game was designed to work on computer OS that largely aren't used by 95% of the population nowadays because they are completely outdated, they basically just loaded their game on Steam probably with whatever patchwork they had on hand and that is it.

Its not an 'abandonware' you imbecile, this is what we call a finished product, yeah bugs happen, that is thing with video games, expecting those old games to work fine on modern PC is pure stupidity, its not how it works, how it works is old games don't always work on modern PC, if they do, well be happy with the result you've got because that is IT, the people that programmed the game are long gone from having had to deal with the game so you got what you've got, expecting more is to be exceedingly naive & foolish.

If you have grabbed a copy of the game on disc from a garage sale or a old game sale bin at some store, you wouldn't expect the game to be upkept like they are in modern times, so I don't see why you expect any better from old games sold on Steam.

Dude, calm down. By definition, that's what abandonware *is* - software that is not actively updated by its copyright holder. Most old, obscure games (like Zeus) fall into this category.

You might be surprised to hear that Zeus still has occasional fan-made fixes released for it, and in my experience, they work just fine on modern computers. A few hours ago, I downloaded this patchj[zeus.heavengames.com] for my copy of Zeus + Poseidon, which happens to be the original physical version of the game (i.e. both the Zeus and Poseidon discs). I have Windows 10, and am running the game in compatibility mode for XP service pack 3. It works perfectly.

[alexkop]

I confirm, patch from heavengames works like magic! Gods aren't slow anymore

[Motasa]

Old topic, but I'd like to pitch in. I've found the use of the BES - Battle Encoder Shirase to limit my CPU usage of the game (in my case with -75%) to fix all the issues; gods bless buildings in a snap, fight enemy soldiers, monsters and gods as they should and the animations of people on piers, trading posts and hippodrome is fixed with this as well. Better yet, all animations feel more fluid, but that might be subjective.

https://battle-encoder-shirase.en.uptodown.com/windows

[Sn3z]

Originally posted by Motasa:

Old topic, but I'd like to pitch in. I've found the use of the BES - Battle Encoder Shirase to limit my CPU usage of the game (in my case with -75%) to fix all the issues; gods bless buildings in a snap, fight enemy soldiers, monsters and gods as they should and the animations of people on piers, trading posts and hippodrome is fixed with this as well. Better yet, all animations feel more fluid, but that might be subjective.

https://battle-encoder-shirase.en.uptodown.com/windows

Does the Urchin building work because that was broken. I remember a certain campaign level being unplayable because the animations were just so slow(the divers would take forever to farm).

[Arcturus]

Originally posted by Pseudonym:

I recall this game being effectively unplayable on nearly all windows vista+ machines due to interesting clock-speed based bugs with certain gameplay critical animations, such as urchin catchers and god interactions.

Is there a reliable fix yet?

You can find the workaround I use for this issue here. Tested and still working.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/566050/discussions/0/1743355067130015650/

I very much doubt they will ever fix this as it would most likely require an extensive rewrite of the game source code. Assuming the devs can get hold of the source code.

[Delgas]

You can try closing every other programs beside the game, especially Chrome. It worked for me on win 7, the god's animation become much faster after that. I also forced the game to run with High performance graphic card instead of intergrated card if that's any of help.

[sliver]

Originally posted by Pseudonym:

I recall this game being effectively unplayable on nearly all windows vista+ machines due to interesting clock-speed based bugs with certain gameplay critical animations, such as urchin catchers and god interactions.

Is there a reliable fix yet?

https://zeus.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=974

[Phoenixrising777]

Well better is https://zeus.heavengames.com/downloads/lister.php?category=patches

[Bilalk85]

This fix here worked for me. I can play at 1080p res with perfect animation. Also, make sure to read the readme file for more info! I have the latest GoG version!


Happy quarantine gaming!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xjdhdr-random-code/files/Game_related_files/City_Building_Strategy_Games_Series_files/

Edit: ok, the game crashes whenever i click the world map...

Edit 2: Ignore the above edit. It was because I hadn't updated the images in the DATA folder with the higher res pics.

[fabio_agostino]

I could finish the game even with the issues so i didn't try any of the fix, also becausa lack of time. I confirm I'm haveing the same issue. Playing on windows 10. Bye Bye