TS runs slow as molasis when building a building?

[epicelite]

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WTF?

The game runs just fine but when I go to build say, a component towe. Everything slows down to a ztyping crawl.

I can train infantry/vehicles/aircraft without issue but when I am building a structure...

WTF?

I have a good enough computer to run todays games at near max, Winderz XP, 2.03 patch.
Installed from my original CD's.

WHAT THE CRAP IS THE PROBLEM?

[Darkstorm]

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Well it might be related to TS' age compared to your new equipment. At any rate, TS, I believe, draws the build animation more than once. However, it is only like 3 times I think.

[epicelite]

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No I mean when the building is being bought in the sidebar. As soon as I am able to deploy the building the game jumps right back to full speed.

[Orac]

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No, Darkstorm is right, the green timer over the icon slows TS down.

[epicelite]

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I thought he was talking about the buildings animation when u deploy it.

Any way to fix this then?

EDIT: Actually let me clarify something, I can build SOME buildings with no slowdown at all.

It depends how much something costs, any buiding under 1000 causes SOME slowdown.
Any building costing more doesn't cause any NOTICEABLE slowdown at least?

[Orac]

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I forget. DirectDraw.dll helps with a few things... But I'm a voxeler, I'm not here to care about the inner workings of TS

[epicelite]

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Teh fudge is "DirectDraw.dll"?

[Alurcas]

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This 1:
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19543

Download it and put it into your SUN directory. At least it helped me fixing the slowdowns. Fixes the WCE's too.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

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you're not alone.
check out this topic.

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[epicelite]

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Hay that worked!

Though the menu does seem to go slower, and it did freeze 1 time.

[Dark Templar X]

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This has to do with a hardcoding of frames. I'm not sure the DirectDraw DLL will actually fix this one... but maybe it does.

[Darkstorm]

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I believe Hyper is fixing the drawing of the sidebar build animation to only draw once but I may be wrong.

[OmegaBolt]

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ddraw seems to work, oddly enough.

[epicelite]

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What is "WCE" s?

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

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The first and fifth post in the topic Alurcas has shown you answers your question

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Waveclass Errors

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