Is XP Pro the cause of lag?

[grzelakc]

I'm beginning to wonder whether it's those of us who run the game on WinXP Pro who are having the terrible lag problems. I noticed that XP keeps bumping the priority of Civilization4.exe to BelowNormal. I keep setting it at "Normal" (I also tried "High" and "AboveNormal") but XP persistently resets it to "BelowNormal".

BelowNormal is typically used by screensavers and gets lower priority than most processes on the CPU. Maybe this is causing the jerky gameplay and the lag...

Anybody with the lag problem who is not running Windows XP Pro?

 

[snepp]

The game is set to below normal when it's not the active process. It goes back to normal again when it has focus. This is normal behavior, same for Windows 2000.

 

[Nothingman]

Friend uses XP Home and he was having more problems than I was with XP Pro.

 

[Captdim]

I'm lagging with XP Home. The game runs fine, though.

 

[venn]

Been wondering how it would run on Win 2k... after all, the readme does say that for w2k you need 256 mb ram and not 512.. wonder if anyone tried that.