Shadows of the Empire - PC - Issues on XP

[bladerunner]

Any one played SotE on XP? I hear some have no issues and others do. I have also heard that this game can be kinda finicky about video cards.

Anyway, the game runs, but it tends to chug in certain areas. The initial Hoth level is a good example. Everything seems ok at first (some animations seem too fast, but not too bad) but once an AT-AT shows up, the game starts chugging. As soon as the AT-AT is off screen, it reverts to normal speed. The game gets worse in the run and gun levels, basically chugging the whole time. I have tweaked with settings with some change, but nothing solid.

I am running the v1.1 patch. I kinda feel like I am beating a dead horse and the only fix would be a patch from LucasArts or firing up an old Win9x box. I also tried a VM, but they don't support the fancier 3D accelerated graphics cards needed.

Anyway, anyone tried running SotE on a newer machine and had success/failure and want to share?

[Hobie-wan]

http://www.ntcompatible.com/cdetail10744.html

[bladerunner]

Thanks for the link Hobie-Wan. Unfortunately I cannot configure z/depth buffering for this game. I am running an nVidia 7800GT, and it is selective which games have certain configurable 3D settings.

I will keep plugging away.

[Hobie-wan]

Is there a config on ini file you can manually edit with notepad as opposed to within the game menus?

[bladerunner]

I will have to check when I get home from work.

I should clarify that I was working in the nVidia Configuration tool. Certain 3D settings are not available globally for all programs. Not sure if that was understood.

Thanks for the continued help.