FPS of 1

[Edward]

Hello.
I have had a great time with Darwinia doing quite smooth play. Now I have just upgraded my G-card from a Gforce 4400 TI to a ATI 800 GT (253 MB). Also upgraded my memory from 500 MB to 2 GB.

My processor is a Athlon XP 3000+

All games run OK but Darwinia has droped down to 1 fps in the main menu window. Its painstaingsly slow. I have updated to the lates patch and used the latest Catalist drivers.

I have taken away the Creative sound card form the PC to see if it was sound related but the problem is still there.
The only real difference is the ATI card and the 2 GB of ram.

Been reading the forums but could not find a solution. I hope someone can help.

Have also read a tread about using OPEN GL extension viewer-GDI Generic to see if OpenGL is working OK. Well I installed it and ran all the rendering tests. What I see interesting is that Texturing, Locked Arrays pass while Multitextrure, Vertex Program, Vertex Objects, Shading language apear as failed.... Could this indicate something about the problem??


Thanks in advance
Edward

ServerAddress = 127.0.0.1
BypassNetwork = 1
IAmAServer = 1

TextLanguage = english
TextSpeed = 15
HelpEnabled = 1

SoundLibrary = dsound
SoundMixFreq = 22050
SoundMasterVolume = 255
SoundChannels = 32
SoundHW3D = 1
SoundSwapStereo = 0
SoundMemoryUsage = 1
SoundBufferSize = 512
SoundDSP = 1

ScreenWidth = 1024
ScreenHeight = 768
ScreenWindowed = 0
ScreenZDepth = 24
ScreenColourDepth = 32
ScreenRefresh = 60

RenderLandscapeDetail = 1
RenderWaterDetail = 1
RenderBuildingDetail = 1
RenderEntityDetail = 1
RenderCloudDetail = 1
RenderPixelShader = 1

ControlMouseButtons = 3
ControlMethod = 1
BootLoader = random
UserProfile = NewUser
RenderSpecialLighting = 0
Difficulty = 1



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DARWINIA BLACK BOX REPORT
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VERSION : win32-full-1.4.2
ERROR : 'Couldn't find sound resources. This is probably because
sounds.dat isn't in the working directory.'

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====== STACKTRACE =======
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retAddress = 00421646
retAddress = 004904A3
retAddress = 004B3F44
retAddress = 004B40EC
retAddress = 00426262
retAddress = 004D2C9A
retAddress = 7C816D4F
retAddress = 00000000

[oneeyedfranc]

did u ever find a solution? my game is down to 1-2 fps and upon entering the game the left column of icons magnifies until it completely clouds the screen and makes the column of icons unaccessible...