I mentioned in a thread elsewhere that I've been trying to get the old activision game 'Empires: Dawn of the Modern World' to work on my laptop on Windows 10. I managed to solve the provlem of the game refusing to run by installing patches, and it now works.
But not perfectly - it now lags hugely. It's like the video card or processor can't keep up - except my laptop is a gaming machine with an i7 processor and both an integrated intel HD graphics 620 video card and an Nvidia GeForce GTX960 dedicated.
The game uses the intel graphics card but there's no way it should be struggling - this game was made for Win XP in 2003 and the base requirements are a 32mb video card, Pentium III 600Mhz processor and 128MB RAM...
The only thing I can possibly think of that might be limiting it is that I use an external CD drive, but it is an LG one connected to a USB 3.0 port and I've never had a problem running other games such as Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2006 which are demanding on the graphics front. I've also had the game work fine on another Win10 laptop.
The other thing is that the game requires DirectX 9.0 compatibility which I understand can cause problems? I do have DirectX 11.0 installed though.
Anyone got any ideas what might be causing it to lag so badly? Sometimes it's fine for a few seconds but as soon as I try and give an instruction or instigate an action it starts being slow again.
Cheers
But not perfectly - it now lags hugely. It's like the video card or processor can't keep up - except my laptop is a gaming machine with an i7 processor and both an integrated intel HD graphics 620 video card and an Nvidia GeForce GTX960 dedicated.
The game uses the intel graphics card but there's no way it should be struggling - this game was made for Win XP in 2003 and the base requirements are a 32mb video card, Pentium III 600Mhz processor and 128MB RAM...
The only thing I can possibly think of that might be limiting it is that I use an external CD drive, but it is an LG one connected to a USB 3.0 port and I've never had a problem running other games such as Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2006 which are demanding on the graphics front. I've also had the game work fine on another Win10 laptop.
The other thing is that the game requires DirectX 9.0 compatibility which I understand can cause problems? I do have DirectX 11.0 installed though.
Anyone got any ideas what might be causing it to lag so badly? Sometimes it's fine for a few seconds but as soon as I try and give an instruction or instigate an action it starts being slow again.
Cheers
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