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Hey all,
I downloaded Oolite Install v 1.65 for my Windows PC. I have a Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ with 1.50 GB of RAM. I am running Windows XP with service pack 2. When I try to play the game it responds really slow: I have to hit keys more than once to get a response and when I launch into space it basically comes to a stop to where I am barely moving no matter what I push. Any suggestions? Keep in mind I am not very experienced with programming so please be gentle.

Firstly welcome! This is a very friendly BB so have fun,

Re: the game - usual suspects are graphics card (what are you running?), graphics card driver (is it supporting OpenGL properly?) and background processes (virus checker, MSM, etc)

Others can tell you how to generate a log file so they can check over it for you and see if they can spot what's wrong.

Stick with it - it's a fabulous game.

I believe it is an ATI Tech. Radeon 9200 that came with my computer (Sony Vaio). I just downloaded the latest driver 6.14.10.6436. I am also running Norton Security but I don't know if that would be interfering. How can I tell if it is supporting OpenGL?

At this point I'd be struggling to help, I stopped using XP last year (dual boot but with Ubuntu, but other than the odd time I need to use my scanner XP is dormant). I personally never had much luck with ATI and OpenGL (others have no such issues) and gave up on ATI many years ago when my 32MB Rage 128 wouldn't run Quake3 but my 16MB Voodoo Banshee would.

Norton will have an effect - I guarantee it - its a known resource hogger and devourer of memory.

Again, others will be able to help more.

Norton will not help, especially if you are running Vista too, but 1.5Gb should be loads.

I think MS said he was running XP SP2 so Vista not an issue. I'm thinking Norton is a big issue - in previous incarnation when I was running 1.65 under XP we had Norton "free" from work - in the end I pulled the plug, it ate my machine from the inside out.

I was thinking about the 9200. How much memory does it have? Is it dedicated or is it using turbo/shared?

There are other laptop users out there who can probably help further.

My oops, sorry, but cetainly agree with the Norton, especially if it is 360.

I'm somewhat puzzled. It looks like there is no hardware acceleration, although the Radeon 9200 should be more than capable of dealing with the demands of Oolite. I have been running it for more than a year on a Radeon 9000 without problems, so my best guess is that something is probably going wrong with the drivers.

Mason Stormm: Can you please uninstall 1.65, download 1.71.2 from the links at the first announcement thread on this subforum install and run it, then exit immediately? There should be a file called stderr.txt inside your [Oolite Install Folder]\oolite.app directory. Please post its contents here, there might be some interesting info in there.

Also, to check the level of OpenGL support of your sytem, you can try this utility: http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/.