Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Tullinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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After playing Summoner for a while (20 mins?) the games starts to go slower and slower until unplayable.
I've played the game with both Voodoo 3 (16mb) and Geforce 2 mx (32 mb) and it's the same problem with both cards.

Here are my specs:
P2 450 mhz, 256 mb sdram, Soundblaster Audigy and at the moment i'm using my Voodoo 3 (Summoner looks sooo much better with it!)

I've installed the game on a newly defragmented harddrive and i have 1gb free on that one...

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Registered: Feb 2002
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Tower of Eleh (where i'm at the moment...) seems to be especially bugged... The game starts to stutter the second i start my savegame there, no matter what details i have.
If someone knows what i can do to make this stop, then please tell me! I beg of you! (I'll buy you a "piggelin" if you live in the Stockholm area...)

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Are you running the latest patch? You can grab it by either clicking "Update" on the launcher or failing that I'm sure Summoner Watch has the file mirrored on their site.

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Of course i'm running with the latest patch! And the latest drivers for all my hardware.
I've had this problem with all versions.

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Yeah....it takes me about 2 and a half hours but it seems to get slower and slower. Probably the huge amount of RAM that helps

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How huge?

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384mb

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Come on! Someone got a solution for this problem exept buying a new computer or restarting the game every 20 minutes?

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I once had a program that purged my RAM every so often; it helped immensely when I had FS2 on a P2 350 with 32megs ram. Don't remember what it was called though.

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if the game starts to studder or slow down, lagg, try quitting the game and restarting every 20 minutes or so.

the next best idea would be to upgrade your PC, but that could get costly. A RAM upgrade should suffice.

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quote:

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Originally posted by IceFire
384mb

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Dude, I got *less* RAM when I rebuilt my box and went DDR and I have more than that. /gloat

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512 PCI 2100 DDRAM

/gloat

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I already have cacheman and mpower to defragment my ram... And i have 256 megs of sdram btw... So it shouldn't slowdown because of that if you ask me!
Come on! Whoever solves the problem gets an icecream!

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Or a hug (hehe...)

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Bah! Me == no money

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PSSST EHY EVERYONE ICE STILL DOESNT HAVE RF

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(AND HE'S STILL CANADIAN!!!!!)

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"PSSST EHY EVERYONE ICE STILL DOESNT HAVE RF"

WHAT!?!?!? How DARE he/she/it!?!?!?

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Its not in any store around here, nor was it seemingly in any store when the thing was released. Seems THQ forgot about southern Ontario. Nobody here has even heard of it....so I'll probably have to order online....but I'm also one of those "University type students" who hasn't had any time or money to go out and find it anyways. So give me a bit of a break here.

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Registered: Feb 2002
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Here in Sweden you can now buy RF for 16 bucks at softwareexpress.se, but the site is in swedish so good luck ordering...
When is your birthday? Maybe i'll buy you a copy...

Oh and 10 kr = 1 dollar...

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