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Tajin, Its the same for me. But once entering to the geoscape screen with the reduced image sizes it was fine.

^^^ Unfortunately this solution does not produce good results on my setup. I am still getting the tremendous lag and what seems like my screen resolution refreshing ever 2 seconds or so.

Hey, I finally got around to doing what you asked. It seems to have worked a treat. Its nice and smooth now. As you say the city locations are messed up now, with some being out in the ocean. Also the area of base influence is way larger now that the map is lower resolution. So you will probably have to account for things like this. IDK if maybe ship speed is another factor you will have to change if you attempt a fix. Thank you for taking the time to look into this for me! I (and many other potato owners) really appreciate it.

Thanks for your response. I started a thread in the modding forum and got a response here: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/12642-Any-discussion-for-a-Reduced-texture-quality-Geoscape-Mod couldn't you just replace the existing images with lower resolution versions? The dimensions are hard coded yea but you could have an image of the same size with lower resolution, right?

Here is a link to the thread I started in the help section, which got a response from Dev Chris. Basically I'm playing on a shitty old laptop with integrated graphics (intel 945). The Geoscape chuggs and lags horribly to the point that the game is unplayable. Yet, everything else runs as smooth as ever (including combat). It would be a shame to limit the availability of this game based on this shortcoming. Chris said he would make available some lower textures of the Geoscape if a modder was willing to incorporate this. Thoughts? (original thread here: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/12640-V-1-09-Playing-with-integrated-graphics-%28Intel-945%29-Stuttering-on-geoscape )

Ok, I pretty much get what is happening here. On the Geoscape and only on the geoscape I am getting horrific stuttering and lag making the game unplayable. However, in combat or on the other information screens the game runs perfectly smoothly. Is there any possible remedy to this? It would be great if the developers offered some kind of low resolution geoscape for those of us with older machines. The geoscape is great and an integral part of the 'xcom' experience but in my opinion it is secondary to the actual combat. So please devs, if you're out there, consider some solution to this problem. Thank you,