Major Pauses In Game

posted on May 4th, 2011, 1:27 am

Well...  I can confirm that the game is playable on a 10 year old laptop....sooo...

You shouldn't be having the problems you are and if downgrading your GC didn't help, It is definitely system specific.

Its kinda obvious, but i have to ask.  when was the last time you defragged your HDD?

posted on May 4th, 2011, 2:26 am

I have the issue mainy when the Borg are played, when you go look at their base you get a couple seconds of lag but thats it. Game only takes me a few seconds to load as well, even my older PCs run pretty good. My main system specs are:

ASUS Crosshair III Formula motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 @ 3.6GHz
Radeon 4890 GPU 1GB GDDR5
4GB DDR3 1600

My other 2 systems are pettly much the same setup:

ASUS A8V-X Mainboard
AMD Opteron 170 Dual Core and AMD Athlon 64 4200+ Dual Core, both clocked at 2.4Ghz
Radeon 3850 AGP GPU 512MB GDDR3
2.2 Gigs of DDR1 400

All the systems play pretty much the same, just a few seconds of lag with Borg players the first time you look at their base but thats pretty much the worst of it. THe issue he is having sounds very unusual based on my play experiance.

posted on May 4th, 2011, 4:20 am

Nope, I've got the problems, too. Changing graphics seems to have made little difference.  Although in my case, when battles are about to start, it's merely extremely laggy, especially if someone is cloaking/uncloaking a lot of ships.