strange the game runs perfectly to me

I experienced the same jerkiness issues under XP Pro 32 bit, as well as the game taking forever and a day to either save/load or move between maps.

Applying the 'forceDirectDrawemulation' switch alone using the MS Compatibility Toolkit solved my problems with Geneforge 1. It runs like silky butta' now. Loads, saves and map transitions are instantaneous.

A bit late in the day but I'm also using XP Pro SP3 32-bit and the fixes shown didn't work for me.

I added ForceDXsetupsuccess and Heaplookasidefree and now it runs just fine.

Thanks for this suggestion. It worked like a charm on my XP machine.