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Gish Support / Problems running new install of Gish
January 07, 2005, 04:36:14 PM
Yep, works fine on my work computer.
Thanks for all the help!  I reckon if/when I get around to upgrading Windows on my home computer, that might fix it there.  Until then, I am more than content to play it here when I need a break.
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Gish Support / Problems running new install of Gish
January 06, 2005, 06:28:18 PM
Gotcha, must have been the firewall (I tried it three times, thinking I'd made a typo).  I will try the offline registration then ...
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Gish Support / Problems running new install of Gish
January 06, 2005, 10:37:43 AM
I am back ...
I just tried to install Gish on my work computer (where I am confident it would work) but got an Invalid Key error upon registration -- ah well.  I can't complain -- I'm a developer as well and we do a similar thing with our security system.

I will try more different video drivers when I get home tonight.
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Gish Support / Problems running new install of Gish
December 24, 2004, 08:47:06 PM
Nope, I don't believe so -- I only notice a slowdown when a mission starts.  My subjective impression is that it does take my full installation of Gish longer to load a level (i.e. the time between I click "Start" and it actually starts) than the demo installation does.

I going away on holiday but will be back in a week or so to keep troubleshooting -- thanks much for your past (& future) efforts to help me, have some good hollies, and I will respond again in January.  Cheers!
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Gish Support / Problems running new install of Gish
December 22, 2004, 08:55:04 AM
Nah, I don't reckon it's memory -- I freed up more RAM, with no change in results.
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Gish Support / Problems running new install of Gish
December 22, 2004, 07:59:33 AM
The demo runs perfectly fine with either the updated NVidia drivers or the latest ones from Omega.  The full game seems to run equally poorly with both.  I haven't tried any other versions of video drivers; do you mean previous versions of the official drivers, or mods from a different source?

I'm beginning to wonder if the video drivers (which seemed like the obvious choice at first) are not at fault.  Could it be a memory issue?  I would guess the full version has a bigger footprint than the demo.  I have 200-250 MB of RAM free.
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Gish Support / Problems running new install of Gish
December 22, 2004, 07:11:22 AM
I tried four collection levels and all seemed just as slow: choppy music (if I had it on), and even with me pressing keys it always said "Get Ready".  I could press A and see Gish get sticky a few seconds later, but couldn't make it move ...
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Gish Support / Problems running new install of Gish
December 21, 2004, 11:30:25 PM
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?
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