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Originally written by Thuryl:

What scenarios are you playing? Death at Chapman's is notoriously laggy in one town because of a poor design decision related to AI scripting. You shouldn't be experiencing lag in most scenarios, though; if you are, that's unusual.

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Originally written by Ephesos:

Hm... wouldn't expect that from an iBook. I've got an 800Mhz G4 and BoA runs just fine...

Have you checked for potential viruses? A bit of a long shot since it's a Mac, but you never know.

Actually, I just remembered a similar problem my family had with an iMac (G4). Everything had suddenly slowed down incredibly, and we finally figured out that Virex had been constantly running exhaustive scans on our entire hard drive, and that was killing our RAM.

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Originally written by spy.there:

Have you augmented the storage of the program?

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Originally written by Niemand:

I use a fairly new 1.33GHz Powerbook, and BoA still moves very slowly on occasion. For a while I believed that the game was slower when I had the Editor open at the same time, since that seemed to be when it did it the most, but lately it just hasn't. The trouble does seem to be very erratic. I have noticed by using Activity Monitor that BoA (and the BoA Editor) are very processor intensive, and just gobble up any clock cycles that aren't being otherwise used; if only 10% of the processor time is available BoA runs just fine with that, but if 90% is available, BoA takes it even if it doesn't really need it.

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Originally written by Thuryl:

What scenarios are you playing? Death at Chapman's is notoriously laggy in one town because of a poor design decision related to AI scripting. You shouldn't be experiencing lag in most scenarios, though; if you are, that's unusual.

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Originally written by Synergy67:

Are you using Virtual Memory? Seems to me that if you are, and your drive needs defragging or is nearly full, this could significantly slow things down.

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Originally written by Thralni, emperor of Riverrod:

What system are you using? Mac OS X?

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Originally written by Omikron:

I think that these problems aren't the fault of the computer, but Blades of Avernum. (No offense, Jeff! :) ) Similar problems occur with almost any program; the problems you described occured on Macs with 800 and 1330 MHz processors, but mine's only 450 MHz, and the game still works like a dream on it. I think that, if you are using new systems like Tiger, the source of Blades of Avernum hasn't got any info about these new systems and therefore is optimized for a different one. (I use Panther, but will upgrade to Tiger when I upgrade to a Mac Mini.) Or if Blades of Avernum has a timer to fix the fps, it might not be fully prepared to the GHz monsters.

Of course, all this COULD be a lie.

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