Slowing and moving, slowing and moving

[Icaro]

Hello guys,

Looks like I am experiencing a very strange issue, as the character and in general the run speed of the program seems to seriously slow down in certain locations, independently from the number of players, npcs or animations. For instance, in Karnor Castle it seems to work smoothly after entering and facing the first arch before the bridge (and all the way inside), while turning back... slows it again! In Dreads outside KC it's only slowed...

I literally tried everything that is recommended on main thread, from renaming the .ini file, to run in WINEQ (it is even worse, as it slows 100% of the times), launching in 95/98 mode; I also disinstalled all antivirus, but nothing...

I don't think it's a matter of fps as the game frames run very smoothly: it just slows down badly (up to 60-70%).

I run on an old iMac partition in WindowsXP which always worked perfectly until three years ago, when I last played before trying again today.

Any suggestion from your side?