Hi, I just purchased Gish after playing the demo and am having major troubles getting it to run playably.
I have a Dell Pentium 3 machine, 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM, with a 32 MB GeForce2 GTS video card, running Windows ME.
Problem is, whenever I start Gish, as soon as the first level (or play area) begins, the frame rate slows down to something like 1 frame every 5 seconds. The music is choppy and task-switching out is difficult. I usually have to reboot to get out of it. Soooooooooo ...
I turned off the music and sound. No change in behavior.
I played with the video settings. Didn't help.
I got the latest NVidia drivers. No change.
Right after I had installed Gish, I uninstalled the demo. I thought this might have accidentally erased something important, so I re-installed the demo (which still works absolutely fine), but no change in Gish's performance.
I installed the special Omega drivers mentioned in http://www.pontifex2.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=28;t=598" target="_blank">this thread. No change.
I uninstall and reinstall Gish. No change.
I step away from the computer and make myself a giant potato pancake. Still no change in Gish.
I find it quite curious that the demo works but the real game does not ... I am on the verge of trying something bogus like using the demo's gish.exe in the full game's environment. The only other odd thing was that when I first tried to register Gish, it locked up, because my firewall (ZoneAlarm) must have tried to pop up a dialog asking me if it was okay to dial out, but Gish wouldn't switch out. I had to reboot and manually enter gish.exe in ZoneAlarm's list of allowed programs, and registration then worked fine.
Any ideas?
I have a Dell Pentium 3 machine, 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM, with a 32 MB GeForce2 GTS video card, running Windows ME.
Problem is, whenever I start Gish, as soon as the first level (or play area) begins, the frame rate slows down to something like 1 frame every 5 seconds. The music is choppy and task-switching out is difficult. I usually have to reboot to get out of it. Soooooooooo ...
I turned off the music and sound. No change in behavior.
I played with the video settings. Didn't help.
I got the latest NVidia drivers. No change.
Right after I had installed Gish, I uninstalled the demo. I thought this might have accidentally erased something important, so I re-installed the demo (which still works absolutely fine), but no change in Gish's performance.
I installed the special Omega drivers mentioned in http://www.pontifex2.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=28;t=598" target="_blank">this thread. No change.
I uninstall and reinstall Gish. No change.
I step away from the computer and make myself a giant potato pancake. Still no change in Gish.
I find it quite curious that the demo works but the real game does not ... I am on the verge of trying something bogus like using the demo's gish.exe in the full game's environment. The only other odd thing was that when I first tried to register Gish, it locked up, because my firewall (ZoneAlarm) must have tried to pop up a dialog asking me if it was okay to dial out, but Gish wouldn't switch out. I had to reboot and manually enter gish.exe in ZoneAlarm's list of allowed programs, and registration then worked fine.
Any ideas?