Hey

Theres alot of reasons it could happen heh.
Though you got 4GB of memory, so it cant be that the swapfile is being used.

You sure you got all drivers up to date?

You could try and run the game in window mode, and start taskmanager, to see if there is something else, that uses alot of process power, when it hangs.



that is going to be fixed in the upcomming patch

So sure are we?
Well, you cant say its not the game, cause different things, happens to different specs.

Like my own special bug, when ever i quit sins, everything else started, like notepad, it require 100% of a core.

So tmaniac you tryed to restart your machine?

ok, after reboot the game performance remains dreadfull.

My PC is more than addaquate to run the game on high detail (as i;m doing atm) but it's like the game can't handle so many planets with so much defensive structures (about 12 turrets per planet)


Update:
After testing some stuff i noticed something;

when i zoom in to my main attack fleet and have no planets or anything on the background everything goes smooth.
When i change the angle so that i can see the rest of the solar system on the background it goes very, VERY laggy and slow.

(drivers are up to date and my hardware is more than good...i could post the savegame for the devs if they want?)

1 thing i should add (don't know if it's importand) somewhere in the beginning of this match i had a game-crash and sent the dumpfile to the minidump mail i then whent on with my latest savegame, could the crash earlier in the game have had anything to do with it?

It's the video drivers.

The Geforce 8800 on Vista has awful AWFUL performance in the released drivers. There's beta drivers that address this (I don't have a link handy).  Also, GalCiv II: Dark Avatar v1.6 will help too.

yes, ive also heard of problems with the 8800 and vista combo...
so hey... if all else fails... blame microsoft half the time u will be right

haha, didnt reply to that, but now i feel the need

Never had any serious problems, tho vista is new, and therefor, will have a few bugs here and there.
Been able to run my games, and almost every program, tho some dont like 64bit.

Bow before me, or face my rath

I will zip the save game tonight (at work atm) and put it on my webserver so you can d/l the savegame (it's 108MB big   )

Which driver specifically are you using? You should be able to check dxdiag to confirm.

downloading. will report back in a few mins

WOW that is one slow game lol. I guess theres something wrong.

Better send it to minidump@ironcladgames.com if you can.

*looks evil at lordkosc* plz try this savegame wuhaha

Try his savegame before saying anything

Try it, and report back
RARed Savegame (4MB)

Ok, update:
Just rebooted into windows XP x64, updated display drivers and activated/started the game.
The performance of the save game is (if possible) even WORSE than in vista! it goes at a rate of 1 frame per second (or something like that)
So i guess it's not the fault of my drivers...OR os

i think that would be weird, 2 machines got the same faulty hardware.
I dont seem to have a problem when playing my own games, but loading his savegame, it runs around 10fps+-