I'm using windows 7 and very surprisingly it dramatically IMPROVED performance. I had the /nosound performance issue where the game would run from simspeed 3 to -2 , after simply installing Windows7 I had simspeed of 8 to 3. I recommend Windows7 big time.
I did try all of the things, the replacing of DirectX dlls seemed farfetched and unfortunately was not my problem. I am sure that a minority of people with issues do have corrupted DirectX dlls but the majority of people with this performance issue probably dont (it would be a lot of people with the same corrupt file). So yeah, I have tried all the solutions and I didnt mean to imply that some of them werent advanced fixes, only that they were longshots that fix problems for only
Well of course I have. I wouldnt register for a forum account and post in this very thread had I not tried everything suggested on this forum to fix the problem. The solutions sound nice and technical but they dont actually do anything. I mean, yeah turning off movies seems to marginally improve performance, but clearly the issue is with the sound lagging the game. So no, none fo the suggested measures did anything to help. However I will post about what DID help and got my frie
Trying it out is always the best, youll want to play the demo. My friend has over the recommended specs and gets horrible lag because of this /nosound performance problem. It really is a matter of checking to see if the game does run well on a computer.
Hey all, this has become a huge problem for my friend. He has an ATI HD4770 and 2 gigs of DDR2 ram so the game runs equally on high and low graphical settings. The issue is that he has a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz processor and a built in soundcard on an ASUS board. Whenever lots of units come to the screen and lots of sound effects are going on he goes from 5 to -1 Simspeed. Checking the forum the /nosound command line completely fixes the problem and makes the game run perfectly. Now thou