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I am a bit new to subsims but liked 1914 - SOF a lot so I bought SH4 at a half price sale. The graphics looked good, especially the interior shots. I have found the intro video is unplayable, slurred slomo speach, graphics break up, and the museum screen footage of the Colorado gives me 3 - 4 fps, in "normal" graphics settings and 13 fps when I set everything to low. I have an ATI dual core 3800 machine with a Radeon x700 256mb graphics card, 2gb ram and 200gb hd. I am thinking of offloading it and trying a re-install. Would that be the way to go or is there a tweak for my rig that would fix this slide show please.:hmm:

I get 20-30 fps in Battlestations Midway that appears to be a comparable sim in terms of graphics so I am a bit bewildered by this. Any helpful advice or tips would be appreciated thanks.

Your CPU is a little on the weak side. I suggest at least a 4200 to get P4 3.0 Ghz performance. Until then, turn down the game graphics settings until you get the performance you can live with.
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Post what graphics settings you're using in-game and on your card so that you can get better advice. :up:

Turning down the anti-alaising settings on your card, as well as the environmental effects in-game seem to make the biggest difference for me. But then again, that's me. If you give everyone your specifics to work with, I'm sure you'll get some good advice.

If you have Anisotropic Filtering set to 16x, turn it down to 4x (in your ATI control panel)...made all the difference for me.

ATI user here, 9800XT, yup, that old. 1280*960 with all sliders up, but all boxes unticked except 'Volumetric fog', gives a good 20-30fps... very playable. 1 gig ram, 2.8mhz cpu.

I would have thought the x700 would have punched some better results? And yes, turn off ALL Anisotropic and antaliasing. Do that in the ATI control panel.