Help!!!

[jamierael]

I'm suffering a serious problem. The game is running, but incredibly slowly. I'm running it from a laptop and using vista. Tried it on a desktop computer which uses xp and runs at normal speed. Had the same problem with ICC 3 aswell. Been looking around for any solutions, but it seems asthough I'm the only one with this problem. Any suggestions?

[Simbazz]

The game is "choppy," on my laptop :) Maybe try closing down programs which aren't exactly important :) I always close down AVG, it improves it.

[Sureshot]

Are you playing ICC 2008 in windowed version? Or full screen?

[Chris Child]

Also, make sure you've got all the latest drivers for your machine:

Press the window button (bottom left)
Click on control panel
Select "check for updates" (bottom left)
Select "Check for updates" (top right)

If there are any available "optional hardware updates" - install them.
Other optional updates may also be helpful.

[jamierael]

thanks for your help guys. Been closing down a few needless programs that were running using the task manager, its a little faster, but not fast enough to enjoy the game! Doesn't make a difference to the speed in either windowed or full screen mode. Thanks anyway. Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated. Cheers!

[Sureshot]

What are the specifications of your laptop?

Which OS are you running Vista or XP?

[jamierael]

1.87GHz, 1789 mb RAM, Widows Vista 32-bit.

[Sureshot]

Almost identical to my laptop. Unfortunately, this is one of the problems with laptops. With a top spec laptop you'd be fine, but they do tend to need specs a lot higher than a desktop would for the same game.

Have you ran a complete scan of your laptop with your Anti-Virus? Might be an idea to see if you have something resource hungry lurking in your laptop. Also running a scan with your spyware software (if you have one, which you should).

When I get ICC08 I'll run it on my laptop, which is almost identical in specs to yours, and see how it runs. :)

[Chris Child]

If your computer is running a scheduled virus scan (including Windows defender) or automated indexing (Google desktop or Windows desktop search) this can cause problems. Good idea to pause these while you're playing. Also - full screen mode generally has a much higher frame-rate.

Turning off your mail and chat programs improves full-screen performance.