Performance of EB vs RTW

Just a quick question about EB for yah. I've just installed the newest version and had a quick look around ingame, looks wicked indeed.

However, while RTW works fine on my system, EB is slow, laggy, mouse drags, it takes maybe 3 seconds after clicking on a city or unit before it actually "selects" it. I've got the settings placed the same as what I use in RTW (running 1.5), and evrything looks to have installed properly.

In the same folder I have BI and alexander expansion installed..... so i don't know if the alex expansion would affect it? I'm also running the Chivalry mod in a different folder (not the same install location as EB) and thats workin fine.

Any suggestions or help about the laggyness i'm experiencing with EB would be greatly appreciated :beam:

Well EB is known to do this in some cases. Your best bet is to just turn the graphics down a bit. There was a guide posted around here not that long ago about how to improve system performance, but I am sure someone else has a link to it.

Always happy to help a fellow Kiwi.

Yeah as there is a lot more in EB it takes a bit more to run. Here's something that may help you.

There is also this thread.

Hope this helps :2thumbsup: . And welcome to EB :balloon2: :hat: :balloon3:

Hey thanks for those :) Pretty much what i thought might be the case.

I've already done a heap of tweaks on my system (I have a Nvidia FX5200 card and half a gig of ram, and run Oblivion no problem :yes:, most of those tweaks and things in those links i've done already :) Although i'll drop a few settings back a bit. I'm not getting anywhere near the lag that some of those guys posted, and after the first startup the loading screens dropped their load time by 3/4! which solved one issue :laugh4:

I have EB and RTR both installed (gotta love the -mod command). Running at 1360 x 768; 32 bit color; Nvidia 7600GT; 1G RAM, both with the BI.exe

RTR is insanely fast. Turns take literally 10-15 seconds and every click has an immediate effect (in battles and on the map)and I have units on Huge

EB is really slow. Turns take about 2 minutes and windows can take a couple of seconds to open and battles are very laggy (units on Medium)

export_descr_buildings.txt in vanilla is less than 3,500 lines long. In EB, this crucial and constantly referenced file is almost 50,000 lines long.

export_buildings.txt in vanilla is less than 10,000 lines long. In EB, this file is more than 17,000 lines long.

descr_names.txt in vanilla is less than 6,800 lines long. In EB, this file is nearly 10,800 lines long.

That gives a few basic examples of files that are constantly being used. It's not for no good reason that things are slower.

I did the math to answer a question for a different thread. As far as file size goes, the EB EDB is 77 times the size of the RTW EDB!

Try turning campain shadows off. It helps noticeably.

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Originally Posted by Fondor_Yards

Try turning campain shadows off. It helps noticeably.

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I agree completely with this. I just play low shadows and it speeds the battles up immensely.

funny I have really fast turn speeds in EB . There even was slight increase in speed in .81 .