suggestions for slower computers Options

[Romulas]

I ran into a very annoying problem the night before last. Started the shadelord battle and was amazed that he fired so many spells right off the bat, don't have the exact number but it was alot.

What this did other than destroying my party was slow my computer down to a crawl. The characters that were not slowed from his slow spell could still hardly move and could not make it from the door before getting killed.

The question, are there specific settings that I can alter that will make this a less computer intensive fight? This is the first enhanced encounter that has done this and might be as bad as it is because the battle scene is in the dark and I think that maps like this are more difficult and computer intensive. Just my opinion.

Romulas

[Romulas]

Nataben,

One thing I did when I was running windows 98 was to finally do a disk defrag, I had not done one in years and the system was starting to show. The defrag tool over 2 hours to do but it helped.

Then, later I installed windows xp professional and that helped alot more, it seems the drivers for the motherboard has alot to do with it, especially since mine had integrated sound. I ran into alot less issues between heavy cpu useage and sound.

I think my current problems have to do with too many special affects and the sounds that go with them.

I remember playing one time when I was running windows 98 and I fought the warden in the planar prison, I attacked him with all my people and when he died the game closed to the desktop, everytime I tried it. So, I then attacked him with one character and won, no game crash at all.

So, I would check into your drivers, if they are all up to date then perhaps its just your motherboard. Some out there use generic bios and chips and don't share the cpu well. For instance, with windows 98 if I was doing something cpu intensive and playing music more times than not the sound would just shut down (this is with integrated sound), I would have to reboot to get it back. Going to windows XP solved that so I would say that was a driver issue.

Good luck.

Romulas