I think I may have solved it. I had to restart the PC after downloading the game.

LeeWizcraft: Systrem specs?  Drivers up to date?

Most of the time it plays very smooth. But every so often, for anywhere for 5-20 seconds or so, the framerate drops a ton, then goes back to normal. This did not happen in the beta, and I'm running with the same settings.

WinXP SP3, Intel E6600, 2 GB RAM, NVIDIA GF8800 GTS, driver version 182.05.

-HM

I rebooted it and it seemed ok for a bit, but then the periodic framerate slowness came back. It's as if some process kicks off for a small period of time, then goes away. Definitely strange.

-HM

The last few games in SP tournament I played were fine. I've only played SP so far, but sometimes I'm logged in to my online account. Maybe some process in Demigod is querying the servers which is causing it to slow down?

-HM

yea a reboot worked for me too.  guess it didn't like the idea of being forced to actually do anything right after an installation

Have you checked if Impulse and Impulse Now (the sys tray app) are closed before starting a tournament game?

Most of this should be addressed with the latest updates.  A lot was due to poor server response from being hammered on release day (still talks to the servers to check for updates, even on single player in the menus).  Anyone still having issues?

I'm experiencing this as well. Most of the time the frame rate is great but occasionaly it will slow down at a constant interval, even when there is nothing really going on on my screen.

No, I don't have Google Desktop.

For me the issue seems to only happen in single player, with many AI players, and manifest itself late game.  When it occurs, usually the problem goes away if I zoom in close.  It's an on/off thing: either the framerate is great, or it's terrible. I think there's some kind of issue occuring due to AI processing, which sucks down the framerate, until something "magically" fixes itself.

-HM

Wondering the same thing here; want to get some time in online but it's not worth it when framerates drop so much and sucks playing without sound. Any official word on this?

Aryanna and Renwold, your issue sounds like mine. Does the problem go away if you zoom in on your Demigod?  Zoom and move around to a different part of the map?  I've noticed this can help at times.

Also, does it happen in multiplayer?

Like I said, I think this happens when the AI calls get to be too much, it overloads the processing, and sucks the framerate down.

-HM

Zooming out doesn't make the problem go away. MP? I didn't even touch MP yet, because of all the issues I'm already having (getting the game to work properly). The only thing that helps is, like I said, put the /nosound option in. With the /nosound option I have absolutely no problem whatsoever (except that I don't hear any sound obviously, which is highly irritating). I run the whole match with 30-40 FPS and round and about 4-5 simspeed. Without /nosound, I start off with that, but some minutes in, the FPS drops to 2-3 and the simspeed to -1/-2.