Diving Duck

This has been driving me mad all day. I have a 7800gtx, Athlon X2 4200 and 2gb ram with vista 32, and have just found what works for me (at the moment). Normally a few hours into a med map things will really crawl, especially when zooming in and out, things turn to a slideshow, but after trying all the effects options I seem to have found that turning off 'planet rings' gets things moving again. Hopefully this will get some of you unstuck, it is very frustrating to be able to run graphi

damn, beat me to it. ;)

Yup, select the building and then in the centre bottom of the screen/hud click the long button that appears under the little in-game screen thing. Just be aware that getting rid of research stations stops some things working that rely on tech levels (Novolith etc)

I just played for a good few hours with no freezing after turning everything down to high (except the planet details as I like them at highest) and also had bloom turned off. I got pwned by the AI instead . :SNIFF!:

I'm sorry to say that I am already on highest Frogboy. I think my first freeze happened with no planets on screen at the time.

[quote] If it is NVidia 7 series related then I am worried as I am running a 7 series card. I may need to upgrade if I experience problems. At the moment I am still downloading so hope for the best [/quote] I too run a 7 series card and have the same prob on vista 32bit, but I don't think it is worth upgrading over. It is likely a driver issue and will be fixed before too long as is often the case with new released games these days.

yup, same problem here too, it is frustrating but definitely not a show-stopper (yet) Specs: AMD X2 4200+, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 7800gtx (latest whql drivers) and Vista 32bit. The only frame rate issue I get other than this is the first time a texture/object appears as it is loaded in. Once I've seen it once I no longer get a stutter.

I just got my serial but am unfortunately at work so no download for me at the moment, but I just wanted to say that even though I was slightly peeved at the wait for the code I had I don't think it is enough to simply label SD as having terrible customer service. Over the years I have been in contact with SD support for various reasons and never found them anything but helpful. For instance, I recently closed down an email account forgetting that GalCiv was still tied to it, a simple

Hang in there guys. I've been waiting like you and mine has literally just arrived in my inbox this minute. It won't be long...

[quote]In in New Zealand..So technically, its monday here before anywhere else.... except like the kiribati islands. [/quote] Heck, it's Tuesday here in NZ now and I'm still waiting ;)

Mine's at 0KB/s mainly as I am still waiting for my serial.... aaargh I want to download before I go to work

I remember that my Acorn Electron used to cause radio interference on the radio station my mum to at the time. She was never happy when she heard the sound of neeeyown-pew pew beeeep over the top of her programmes :D I often miss them simpler days. The computer magazines I used to get never used to have the 'free game' on the cover but rather had the code printed inside for you to program into your comp. Happy days. That said, I'm glad they still don't do that these days!!!

As far as I know, and this includes prior experience of SD software, you'll be paying the US$ price. edit: It sucks that games cost as much as they do in this part of the world (have just moved from the UK - NZ and am experiencing the sizable price jump first hand). :( /moan

For those of us who fancy a gaming/nostalgia kick from time to time I have found this site invaluable... [link="http://www.abandonia.com/index.php"]WWW Link[/link]

Oh yeah, I remember pong. I'm hoping for something a little more in depth with Sins though! I miss Manic Miner, Arcadians and something that was on the Amiga called Wreckers. I do agree though that nostalgia is best left in the past. Firing up Elite II for the first time in years really bummed me out as it wasn't all that I remembered it to be :SNIFF!:

Am guessing an hour or so before us in NZ (GMT+13), so prob midnight monday as a guess?

I'm in New Zealand, it sucks to be so far ahead - it is pretty much tuesday for us when it comes out. Yes, I know it is still the same amount of time to wait, but it's a psychological thing...