Hi,
I downloaded the 2.0 trial from one of the links on the main site which installed fine. Because there seemed to be a lot of fixes and changes since 2.0, I immediately patched to 2.001V and disabled the expansion.
Unfortunately my very first experience of the game is of it being completely unplayable due to severe delays in responding to mouse clicks, scrolling etc. in the tutorial!
As the font was changed in 2.001V, I tried 2.001U - same result.
OK, I tried the trial Zenith Remnant expansion tutorial and it was smooth as silk. Untick the expansion - molasses again.
Hitting F3 shows over 2 seconds Render delay.
I uninstalled, and noticed a file left behind in the install folder which was some sort of fault diagnosis? It was ... 200 MB!
After deleting the folder and reinstalling, I tried the vanilla 2.0 install and it plays fine. After patching with 2.001V and unticking the expansion, it's severe delays again.
My system consists of WinXP Pro (32bit) (SP3), E8400 dual core 3GHz, 2 GB RAM, 4GB page file, 8800GT graphics card, so no slouch.
The delay isn't constant, it happens regularly every few seconds. If I scroll, I have to leave the mouse at the edge of the screen for 2 seconds, then it'll scroll. It'll scroll smoothly, then after a couple of seconds it starts juddering.... loop.
Any ideas please? It's completely disappointed me after reading such glowing reviews and I haven't been able to get as far as Tutorial #1!
P.S. I just tried again today with 2.001W. Same sad story. Also, I notice that if you hit Escape from the tutorial, there is about a 2 second delay in responding to mouse clicks on the settings tabs e.g. clicking on the Audio or Graphics tab.
There's no noticeable delay when not having a game active.
P.P.S
I've narrowed this down to just the first 3 tutorials. The Intermediate tutorial - apart from the first 5 seconds or so - and a normal hosted game seem to play fine. Very little delay indeed there.
TIA
