Semi-Solution: Slow Scroll

[MrWhereItsAt]

Win ME has a use

Quick note about the slowdown, including the scrolling AND seemingly all game elements, like the AI turns and the time it takes to open Advisor screens:

I was getting atrocious delays early in the game, and by the middle of the Industrial era had waits of about 5min. I got my comp' with a now next to useless copy of Win ME (I have been using Win2K), and noted that less ppl seemed to have the probs with this. Thus, I tried Civ3 under Win ME and it works!!!! No slowness anywhere - scrolling is about 3x faster for a start. This isn't a fix for those with only one OS, but, if you can be buggered, try in Win 98 or ME. My results were quite outstanding. Who'd have thunk it? ME actually can SOLVE a problem.

My specs:

PIII 800
128 RAM
GeForce 2 MX 400
SB Live! Value
20GB

[spitzig]

I'm not sure if this is the same one you guys are talking about, but on occasion the game does do this "slow scroll" thing. The thing I'm more concerned about, because it happens more frequently, is that the game just freezes for a second, or so, when it cycles to a unit for you to move. It doesn't do this all the time either.

I'm running W98(not SE). I have a AMD k7-800, Nvidia TNT2 Riva 64, 256 MG of ram, everything up to date. The thing is before I had to reformat my drive, I didn't have this problem. I'm suspecting it has to do with the Nvidia drivers, from what I've read here and because I'm having a new graphics slowdown in another game.

[Trelane]

I have the following system:

Win98 SE
AMD K6-2, 3D processor, MMX, 500MHz
256 MB RAM
64 MB Radeon 7000 video card
DirectX 8.1

What (if anything) can I do to improve the scrolling?

[onlyafterdark]

I am having the same problem.. slow SLOW animation. I have two machines.. On a 1.6 GHZ athlon, with GEforce4 and winXP, the other with a pentium 200 with TNT2 and winXP.

It is the first computer(the better one) that won't work with civ3. They are both using the same detinator drivers. I have tried everything in this thread, and nothing seems to increase the animation speed. If i tun the animations off the game runs fine... but its such a shame to miss out on them!

anyone figure it out yet?

[milkymoo5]

i get extreamly long long long waits at the end of my turn and sometimes just between changing units.... PLEASE HELP !

i have windows 98
128 RAM
pIII 555 (i think)
and the stunning............ VOODOO 3 !!!!
i've never downloaded any drivers before is that the problem ? if so where do i get them ?

[Underseer]

I am running WinXP with a GeForce2 GTS and the latest Detonator drivers. Truth to be told, I'm only getting slower scrolling in the military advisor screen when sorted by units rather than cities. *shrug* I can live with it for now; I'm not lowering performance in other games just to correct such a small problem.

[Carenza]

As an extra the new version 5 drivers for Nvidia cards also cause problems with some of the quake based games (Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Enemy Teratory).

If you are planning to update or rollback your drivers delete any of the saved proflies (the thinks that show up in the custom colour setting) as these can cause funny colour effect and make it inpossible to read anything on the screen.

[lento]

error-scan out of range

I just installed the civ 3, it use to work perfectly with my other monitor, I just updated the drivers for the new monitor, and when I run civ 3 it show a error msg
scan out of range.
I tried to download a "powerstrip" prgram but it didn't work.
Is there a solution for this?

[akulla]

thx for the info.