Dark Radiant Laggy-ish

[bardic]

I did some searches but seach terms for "windows 7 dark radiant" bring up all sorts of things about actual windows. I loaded up TDM on Windows 7 x64, went ok, but the first level I played was super slow (1 frame every 5 seconds or so once it was loaded). Updating video drivers fixed it, but I get something similar in dark Radiant and don't know if they are related.

 

When I install and load the x64 or x86 versions, it takes forever for the views to respond. The grid views take a long time to come up, and clicking or dragging takes 5 minutes or more to register. Are the two related? Do I have a video driver issue, or do others have issues with Dark Radiant in 64 bit Windows 7?

 

I loaded the editor up in a virtual XP and everything runs smoothly, but I don't think I can test things that way because of the low VM graphics.

 

 

AMD Phenom X4 9600

Asus Crosshair MB

Asus GeForce 8800 GTS

2x 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800Mhz

Windows 7 x64, clean install

Edited November 8, 2009 by bardic

[greebo]

Have you tried switching off Aero or Desktop Composition in the shortcut?

 

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/10080-darkradiant-1-0-2-released/page__view__findpost__p__198940

[bardic]

OK, mixed results there, but it does work.

 

With the 32 bit Dark Radiant I can either disable Aero or go into the shortcut and check "disable desktop composition".

 

With the 64 bit version changing the shortcut doesn't turn off Aero when the program is run. So I'm stuck disabling Aero and have to remember to turn it back on after I'm done editing.

 

I think I will stick to the 32 bit version and when I have a big level with longer load times I may test the 64 bit version to see if it performs better. Thanks for the link.