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Yes we're already working on a new version which should greatly improve performances, about the player numbers, well Graal it's a little older than TMW and has a bigger world and many things you can do, as soon as TMW will become more playable it will have more players, that's for sure.

We're currently using Allegro and while in itself this will not be causing you the 4 fps, the planned switch to SDL should make things run a lot smoother than is the case at the moment.

I think the 4 fps may be caused by attempting to use hardware while the hardware is actually rather slow, as in software I can't image such a low number would happen. Could this be the case for you? In any case you might be able to speed up the game a little by disableing 2xSaI by putting stretch mode on 0 in tmw.ini.

Changing stretch mode to 0 seems to have improved the FPS significantly, but it still displays it as being at 4-5. At least it's playable now, though. Thanks

By the way, what is that and why is it NOT set to 0 if it runs faster this way?

Using a stretch_mode different than 0 enables some filters such as 2xSaI and SuperEagle which are pretty slow, but gives a better graphic. But anyway don't worry, there will be soon a great fps increase. Just stay tuned