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Small problem with Sins

August 25, 2007 9:45:11 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
I have a Toshiba Satellite P105 (2 GHz, 2 Gig RAM; running Vista) and when I run Sins I get sporadic episodes of the program/music stuttering (like a small seizure). When running Sins I am not actively running other programs; however, I do have Norton 360 running in the background). I don't have any such problem with my somewhat older computer running WinXP. I will admit I have not tried systematically disabling programs but I was wondering if there was a fix for this which did not involve disabling select programs.

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RonLugge
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Reply #1 August 25, 2007 11:47:19 PM
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2 GHz what, Dancing Fool? I've never heard of a P105 processor (so I'm guessing thats a model name), so I don't know if thats a P4 speed (in which case your CPU needs fixing... as in replacing) or Core 2 Duo.

CPU clock speed isn't as important as its architecture.
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Reply #2 August 26, 2007 1:19:39 AM
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This is what I am operating on and the game runs fine!

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Manufacturer American Megatrends Inc.
System Model K7S41GX
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1588 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. P2.00, 10/28/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
Total Physical Memory 768.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 412.86 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.83 GB


My video
Adapter Type RADEON 9250 AGP (0x5960), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description RADEON 9250
Adapter RAM 128.00 MB (134,217,728 bytes)
Driver Version 6.14.10.6614
INF File oem12.inf (ati2mtag_RV280 section)
Color Planes 1
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1024 x 768 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32

Now this is a dinosar and the game runs nice and smooth for me on med textures
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Reply #3 August 26, 2007 1:59:17 AM
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Dont purchase, use, or even think about VISTA! It is a sinful evil that Microsoft has unleashed! It is worse then the first release of Windows 95!!!!
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Reply #4 August 26, 2007 2:27:13 AM
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Dont purchase, use, or even think about VISTA! It is a sinful evil that Microsoft has unleashed! It is worse then the first release of Windows 95!!!!

That aint true, vista is running quite well.

The general problem is that many think that there 4 or so years old PC can run vista, when there no driver support for the old hardware.

Vista is for new hardware only, though you can run it on a old PC, but dont expect it to perform well without the needed drivers

Im running Vista 64bit Ultimate on a new machine, and im quite happy with it
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Reply #5 August 26, 2007 9:11:45 AM
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Sorry, it is an Intel Core2 @ 2 GHz (the P105 is the model name). A fairly new computer (just bought it in May). Video is NVIDA GeForce Go 7900 256 Meg memory. As for Vista, while I was extremely skeptical (and it was preloaded on the computer) I just went with it. In short, it works well for me.
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Reply #6 August 26, 2007 11:24:40 AM
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Dont purchase, use, or even think about VISTA! It is a sinful evil that Microsoft has unleashed! It is worse then the first release of Windows 95!!!!

That aint true, vista is running quite well.

The general problem is that many think that there 4 or so years old PC can run vista, when there no driver support for the old hardware.

Vista is for new hardware only, though you can run it on a old PC, but dont expect it to perform well without the needed drivers

Im running Vista 64bit Ultimate on a new machine, and im quite happy with it


This from the person who has rebooted Vista more in the last week than I have rebooted XP in the last 4 months...
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Reply #7 August 26, 2007 11:44:02 AM
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Well, I'm stumped. What you're describing sounds like a known issue, where the game itself stutters, but I've never heard of it effecting the music as well as the game itself. Usually I just have everything "pause" for a fraction of a second, every second... music isn't touched.
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Reply #8 August 26, 2007 12:57:33 PM
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Dont purchase, use, or even think about VISTA! It is a sinful evil that Microsoft has unleashed! It is worse then the first release of Windows 95!!!!

That aint true, vista is running quite well.

The general problem is that many think that there 4 or so years old PC can run vista, when there no driver support for the old hardware.

Vista is for new hardware only, though you can run it on a old PC, but dont expect it to perform well without the needed drivers

Im running Vista 64bit Ultimate on a new machine, and im quite happy with it


This from the person who has rebooted Vista more in the last week than I have rebooted XP in the last 4 months...

same error could happen in xp too, it was an IRQ problem i believe.


Well, I'm stumped. What you're describing sounds like a known issue, where the game itself stutters, but I've never heard of it effecting the music as well as the game itself. Usually I just have everything "pause" for a fraction of a second, every second... music isn't touched.


true, maybe its a driver issue?
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Reply #9 August 26, 2007 9:41:30 PM
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true, maybe its a driver issue?


I'm going to guess at "probably" something like that... but I'm to tired to ask for a DXDiag and work through it to check that there aren't any stupid mistakes (like 10 year old drivers...)
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