I have the same issue - and nearly the same video card as you do. Mine is a 1900XT PCI-E (512MB) ... info cards and such don't seem to be any problem. But anytime the AI whispers something, there is a massive decrease in framerate.
I thought this issue had been taken care of way back in a previous patch, but running Entrenchment 1.01 I get huge lag whenever the AI whispers something to me. As long as the text is on-screen, my FPS dives down - then, when the text goes away, everything is back to normal. I couldn't find any other posts mentioning this, but is anyone else seeing the same thing?
Anyone else run into this, or know how to make it better? Basically, while in-game, if I use any combinatinon of alt + (another key) it does what it's supposed to, but I also get the windows "beep" sound ... and I if I hold the two keys down, it starts beeping like crazy (I think it's the "ding.wav"). I've looked at my settings for "sticky keys" etc. and all that is turned off. My theory: its the way windows handles "accelerator" keys ... for example, open up windows
Thanks for the help Annatar11! Just so everyone knows, I emailed the save and some steps to demonstrate the problem earlier this afternoon and already got a response back saying that they found and fixed the bug for 1.1. :D I've heard that Ironclad/Stardock have good support, but wow! And on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend too.
Dang, that's just my luck ... as soon as someone else tries to reproduce it, everything works fine. :D I do actually have a save made under 1.05 though that demonstrates this. When I go home at lunch I can dig it up and send it ... except I'm totatlly clueless and don't know where to send it to. :SURPRISED: Should I just email it to Ironclad's support email?
I have noticed this same exact problem. There's always one ship (almost always the last one that joined the fleet) that thinks it has to go back to my home planet - I can tell it to move or attack, etc and it will ... but once it's done it starts to head off back home again even though it's supposedly in a fleet. I reproduce this just about every game right at the beginning as TEC - simply build your cap ship, select it and then form a fleet. Then queue up 4 cobalt light frigates. Th
