Pheonix juddery and lagging

[C8RLS]

Just installed Pheonix for a friend on his PC and is is very juddery and lagging, it is a good spec pc and graphics card, (better than my own and I dont have those problems) anyone any ideas that might point me in the right direction to try first?

It's a Windows XP machine

Thanks in advance.

[DanWright]

I had that problem. I had a virus scan running, disk defrag, or another program running at the same time, once these were closed I didnt have any more Problems. There could be a hidden program running as well that could slow it down.

[Planehazza]

This happened to me too. As soon as I went online it went really stuttery. Typical IT response, but I simply reinstalled it and it's now smooth as silk

[challis349]

Been like it all night online,

[robby_121]

Full Screen

Are you running full screen. That makes a massive difference. Alt Enter.
Not teaching to suck eggs but makes a huge difference if you didnt know.

[C8RLS]

Thanks for the answers, I will try a reinstall and make sure nothing is running on the PC in the background, I think to be honest even though it is a relatoively powerful PC the CPU was almost up to 45% when Pheonix was running and the cooling fan was screaming its head off, which may indicate some kind of problem somewhere with it?

The version 2.5 to 3.0 took almost 2 hrs to donwload at his house last night - I have just downloaded it again here in less than 15 minutes, so will burn it to a disk and take it along for the reinstall!

He is running on two screens side by side (but only using one of them), however I wil try your suggestion.

[robby_121]

Extended desktop

Running two screens will almost certainly cause problems. Its as good as running in window mode. Disable the second screen and run in full screen mode. Im sure you will see a huge difference.

[C8RLS]

Running two screens will almost certainly cause problems. Its as good as running in window mode. Disable the second screen and run in full screen mode. Im sure you will see a huge difference.

Thanks I will try that for him, however, I run my setup at home with two screens and its as smooth as silk - shame my flying isnt really!!!