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mvassilev
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posted December 30, 2012 08:36 PM |
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Game lags when not in 800x600
This is Winds of War. When I set the resolution to anything higher than 800x600, the game lags horribly on the adventure map screen (the town and battle screens are fine). My computer can run H5 at 1920x1080 just fine, so it's clearly powerful enough for H4. What can I do to fix it?
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airodinamic
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posted January 21, 2013 01:25 AM |
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This is Winds of War. When I set the resolution to anything higher than 800x600, the game lags horribly on the adventure map screen (the town and battle screens are fine). My computer can run H5 at 1920x1080 just fine, so it's clearly powerful enough for H4. What can I do to fix it?
Use window mode. i have the same problem and only this way it rune fine on 1280x1024.
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Pangu
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posted January 22, 2013 12:49 AM |
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I've never had problems like lagging with this game, although the animations are a bit funny on the battle screen.
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mvassilev
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posted March 23, 2013 01:50 AM |
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Use window mode. i have the same problem and only this way it rune fine on 1280x1024.
For some reason, if I uncheck full screen while the game is at 1280x1024, it still displays fullscreen.
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airodinamic
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posted March 23, 2013 08:56 PM |
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Use window mode. i have the same problem and only this way it rune fine on 1280x1024.
For some reason, if I uncheck full screen while the game is at 1280x1024, it still displays fullscreen.
well run the game on 800x600 then swich to windowed mode and then switch to 1024x768 or 1280x1024. i was having the same problem and this way it works!
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mvassilev
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posted March 23, 2013 09:30 PM |
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If I switch to 1280x1024, it becomes full-screen again. Even though my desktop is at 1920x1080.
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airodinamic
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posted March 30, 2013 11:27 PM |
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If I switch to 1280x1024, it becomes full-screen again. Even though my desktop is at 1920x1080.
Hmmm thats strange. maybe you should try using F4 if still dont make it on windowed mode try alt + tab and then try again. its very strange problem
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mvassilev
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posted May 30, 2013 10:24 PM |
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Doesn't work. Also, when I do windowed mode in 1024x768 or 800x680, the game runs very, very slowly.
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theunknown
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posted May 31, 2013 11:56 AM |
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Clean winds of war should work fine on any windows. Did you install normal H4, Gathering Storm then Winds of War, or did you install some patches in between? If you have clean H4 complete that should work fine too.
Also do you have the newest graphic drivers? There are rare cases in which ati cards perform slow on older games ...
If the problem persists on only one resolution setting it's most likely a graphic issue, check your graphic settings in windows too.
The only serious lags from time to time I have experienced only in normal H4 on newer computers but they were related to memory etc they were memory holes. Your problem doesn't seem to be from time to time but continual ...
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mvassilev
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posted June 04, 2013 10:23 PM |
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It's a clean install, first vanilla, then TGS, then WOW. I have the latest Nvidia drivers, too. 800x600 works fine fullscreen, but nothing else does. 800x600 and 1024x768 windowed lag horribly. 1024x768 and 1280x1024 fullscreen lag horribly. 1280x1024 can't be windowed, when I uncheck "Full Screen" it's still fullscreen, even though my desktop resolution is 1920x1080.
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theunknown
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posted June 05, 2013 05:19 PM |
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It's a clean install, first vanilla, then TGS, then WOW. I have the latest Nvidia drivers, too. 800x600 works fine fullscreen, but nothing else does. 800x600 and 1024x768 windowed lag horribly. 1024x768 and 1280x1024 fullscreen lag horribly. 1280x1024 can't be windowed, when I uncheck "Full Screen" it's still fullscreen, even though my desktop resolution is 1920x1080.
Try to search the web for possible problems with your graphic card for certain games ... I have 9600GT and H4-WoW has never lagged for me, I too have the newest nvidia drivers.
If you say that only 800x600 doesn't have problems I suppose it's a graphic issue, but otherwise I would've suspected the hard drive ...
Does the game when in 800x600 in fullscreen run slow or lags if you have other programs in the background like web browsers and such?
One more thing, how much free space do you have on your drives? You should have about 5 GB or more free space for your virtual ram.
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mvassilev
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posted June 05, 2013 09:29 PM |
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I solved it. After doing some Googling, I discovered that turning off Adventure Map animations fixes it. It runs fine in 1280x1024 now, though it looks worse because objects on the adventure map aren't animated anymore.
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theunknown
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posted June 06, 2013 06:23 AM |
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I solved it. After doing some Googling, I discovered that turning off Adventure Map animations fixes it. It runs fine in 1280x1024 now, though it looks worse because objects on the adventure map aren't animated anymore.
I tried a little search and failed, could you tell me how you did disable the object animations? I know that you can do that in the campaign editor but in-game I have no idea.
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frostymuaddib
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posted June 06, 2013 10:33 AM |
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You may edit registry entries. Use regedit and go to (at least that's where it is on my win7) Quote:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\New World Computing\Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Find entry adventure_animations and change its value from 1 to 0.
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mvassilev
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posted June 06, 2013 08:14 PM |
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You can do it in-game, in the same screen where you change the resolution.
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frostymuaddib
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posted June 06, 2013 08:18 PM |
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I actually never saw that option before  My bad...
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mvassilev
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posted July 01, 2014 10:38 PM |
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A final footnote to this issue: I built a new computer, with an Nvidia GTX 770, and installed HoMM 4 on it. I can play it at 1280x1024 with animations turned on, without any lag. So I don't know what it didn't like about my laptop.
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