What are your wait times between turns?

[zarasophist]

Mine is 75 seconds. I have 1 GB or RAM. Would more RAM be worth it? What is the lowest wait time you can get?

I love this game, but there is a lot of turns that are just to save money, that takes farily quick turns. 75 seconds isn't bad, but when it only takes me 45 seconds to hit end turn again, it gets to me.

[cmacq]

Nearly no wait.

[Korlon]

Yes, more ram would definitely be worth it. They're fairly cheap anyhow. That is, unless something else is bottlenecking it.

I have two GB of RAM. Time between turns are generally around 30 seconds, and yes I actually timed it. My one GB of RAM system has 60 seconds between turns.

[Primative1]

4GB of ram and not much less than 30 seconds if anything.

XP can only deal with about 3.5 of ram anyway so thats the max.

Processor may be a factor too.

[cmacq]

I used to have time to work on another project, read a book, or make dinner, but now, bam, bam, bam; poor little me, the turns are so quick I can't.

[Primative1]

I used to have time to work on another project, read a book, or make dinner, but now, bam, bam, bam; poor little me, the turns are so quick I can't.

Sounds like my sex life

[mcantu]

its not only the amount of RAM but the speed of it as well. Find out what the fastest RAM is that your motherboard will support and get that...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Meh: I find that playing EB and browsing these forums are really a happy marriage. I mean: I can play turns between my posts.

[Dhampir]

15 or 20 seconds at most. Often, significantly less.

[cmacq]

Sounds like my sex life

Bloody good one there.

[konny]

Less than a minute may be half a minute, I would guess.

[QuintusSertorius]

I've got 2GB of RAM, but a puny 1.6GHz processor, it takes about two minutes between turns.

[Mediolanicus]

512MB of Ram,
It takes me somewhere between 3 and 6 minutes per turn. (depending on the RTW memory leaks...)
I've never played so much guitar since I have EB on my pc...

[Megas Pyrrhos]

2GB of RAM...on Vista. So, essentially 1GB free.

Takes me about 25 seconds or less, though that might be partly due to fast RAM and 3.6ghz processor.

[General Aetius]

Between 4 and 6 min. Ive only got 512 mb Ram and a 1.8 ghz processor...

But I get to read a lot during those minutes. Its not to bad once you get used to it.

General Aetius

[beatoangelico]

around 45 sec with 512 mb
the "secret" is the manual setting of virtual memory

[polluxlm]

around 45 sec with 512 mb
the "secret" is the manual setting of virtual memory

How do you do this?

[blacksnail]

Very carefully and with great trepidation. Do so at your own risk.

[Strategos Alexandros]

What would happen if you allocated too much?

[Ibrahim]

I have about 5-10 seconds...

[mcantu]

What would happen if you allocated too much?

Nothing bad...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Actually... you might run into trashing; as well as greatly reduce speed of your own harddrive if you increase it vastly.

And it isn't going to make too much of a difference if you already have a large amount of RAM (2GB & upward) as your processor simply can cope with only so much. (2^32 bytes for an 32bit processor with all 32bit electronics surrounding it ; 2^30==1GB ... )

EDIT: Typically OS's cap the amout of swapfile & pagefile to be 2-5 times the amount of RAM you have. Still the actual cap is determined by what your CPU can cope with; see above.

[Ymarsakar]

Before it was 1 minute and plus. After https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=96967

it was around 30 seconds in the beginning with lots of factions. As factions went down, the AI turn also went down by a few seconds. Maybe 1-2 seconds per faction dead.

[Midnj]

About 5-10 seconds. Have a system I built in January, 4ghz dual core wolfdale... though i'm pretty sure RTW only uses single core.

The system I replaced was a P4-3.4ghz machine w/ 1 gig of ram.. about 30-45 seconds per turn on that one.

[craziii]

2 gig of ram + + single core pen iv 3ghz. load time is about 30-40 secs.

[Jolt]

Ugh...I suppose I have the record on the longest turn change ever.


Normally, my turn changes take 5-10 minutes. A month ago (I had quit playing EB due to it's stupidifying slowness), I decided to give it a shot again. Besides the 20 minutes of starting up and the usual turtle speed when moving the cursor and units around the strategic map, I realized I had nothing left to do in my turn. I pressed the "End Turn" button.
As normal, at that moment I rise from my chair in front of my pc and go do something else (play football, watch tv, w/e), luckily for me, Sporting vs Porto was about to start, so I went to watch it. After the first part ended I went to check on the game and to my disbelief, only a few factions had elapsed, two minutes or so later I got a nice battle against the Ptolomaioi (I'm Macedonia). After winning the battle, the end turn continued and I went back to watching the game (the game had already 5 minutes on the second half) so I continued watching the game 'til it was over and when I returned, the turn still hadn't changed (Was in the Eleutheroi Faction) I was like: "What the..." The turn change took a little more than an hour. A bad record in my computer. Vanilla (Which I'm having fun playing) runs just fine.

I have 512mb of RAM, pentium 4, Win XP, some weak Radeon Graphics Card (91...something, like 9100) and that's pretty much it.

After that awesome 1 hour long turn, I saved the game and haven't played since. :P

[bovi]

I guarantee that you'll get a nice performance boost if you buy 1-2 GB more RAM.

[HouseOfHam]

4.2 GHz P4, 2 GB DDR PC-3200 RAM, Nvidea 7600 GS 512MB, running Vista (ok, so I'm too lazy to go back to XP).

- installed EB
- hit End Turn
- waited ~15 seconds, which isn't bad, actually
- started the script
- saw the crazy campaign map lag kick in
- uninstalled

Maybe I'll give it another try when I have a better computer (or when the EB team gets around to optimizing their script, instead of rellying on script generators so much).

[craziii]

512 mb ram :( that is like the ideal ram requirement for gaming 10 years ago :( you know XP OS it selfs eats up that much and then some. right now the ideal is 2 gig, I have had 2 gig for 4 years now. new pc this fall will have 8 gigs :P I want to proofed my pc for the next 5 years.

[craziii]

4.2 GHz P4, 2 GB DDR PC-3200 RAM, Nvidea 7600 GS 512MB, running Vista (ok, so I'm too lazy to go back to XP).

- installed EB
- hit End Turn
- waited ~15 seconds, which isn't bad, actually
- started the script
- saw the crazy campaign map lag kick in
- uninstalled

Maybe I'll give it another try when I have a better computer (or when the EB team gets around to optimizing their script, instead of rellying on script generators so much).

that lag happens when a unit on the campaign map has ran out of movement points and you select it to move (red arrow line). it will stop when you select any unit that still has movement points and move it. I know it is a work around but it works 100%. have fun.