Fleet Command Framerate

[Bureaucromancer]

My Fleet Command is entirely playable, but at a very low frame rate. Is there anything to be done about this, or is there something inherent in the software that makes it run slowly on modern systems?

[Sigma 7]

Wow... I never noticed that until I used Fraps to check. Of course, the flickering is more of an issue, even when I've minimized Steam to tray.

[Penthouse32]

Can't play it at all, flickers wildly.

[Dr.Jones]

Which OS do you use, I can't run it on Windows 7 64bit.

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[Penthouse32]

Runs on Win7 x64, but flickers like hell. Unplayable and have tried different glide wrappers, but no luck.

[mbar]

Frame rate is related to the video driver. I've run Fleet Command on 2 different Windows 7 64 bit systems. The one with on board Intel graphics drivers works best with a smooth frame rate. Nvidia 330 is choppy. I haven't played around with Nvidia setting to see if it will render better. F3 and that 3D window runs very smooth so the frame rate problems are with the 2D overlay.

I need to launch Steam as administrator to run FC otherwise it "can't locate Steam" closes the game and opens a browser window to the Steam web page.

EDIT: The "can't locate Steam" problem only happens after hibernating my laptop. If I restart Steam after hibernating FC will run. However, I don't have that problem with any other Steam game.

[bassgojoe]

I had the same problem. The trick is to turn off the radar ranges with CTRL+V. For whatever reason, those make the map screen framerate tank (for me, it went from ~2 FPS to solid 60+).

[mbar]

I had the same problem. The trick is to turn off the radar ranges with CTRL+V. For whatever reason, those make the map screen framerate tank (for me, it went from ~2 FPS to solid 60+).

THANK YOU! I'd given up on this game until I found this trick. Works perfect!