Freezing/slow

[Eros]

Hello guys,

I'm here again with a problem.
The problem is that when I'm ingame, the game starts to freeze/lag badly.
I saw some posts and FAQs but I can't find them back so I started my own thread..
But..
RTW works fine on my pc, why does EB not?
What do I have to do about this?

- Eros.

[Korlon]

What are your computer's hardware specifications?

[Eros]

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
1024MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

You mean this right?
(Apologies for my noobishness)

[Nobo]

You should check out the client ruler script optimization at the bottom of this post:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=101971

did wonders for me

[Eros]

Thanks Nobo, the AI Turn is much faster now :)
But is there something about the slow startup of EB?

[Nobo]

dont think so... i always use that time to get myself a cup of coffee or something

[Korlon]

Thanks Nobo, the AI Turn is much faster now :)
But is there something about the slow startup of EB?

Mmm, get another gigabyte of ram? Start up times got cut in half when other people did this.

[bovi]

The game takes forever to load.

We know. We prefer cramming in the most possible information and features in the game to getting great performance for lower-end computers. Yes, EB runs slower than M2TW.

• <simple>Buy more RAM. 2GB is ideal for playing EB.

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[Eros]

Well okay, glad I'm not the only one
Thanks for the help all.

- Eros.

[Eros]

Look, when I started up EB it works just fine. But after 15 mins it starts to freeze/lag. Why is this?
It's not my graphical options.
Nothing wrong with my specs.
I think there's something wrong in the game or something?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

There is a memory leak in RTW. Most of the time it isn't noticable, but if you have a very small amount of RAM, the leak will become apparent. That may be your problem...

Try turning off shadows from the strat map options menu if you are getting lag there. That can do wonders.

[mcantu]

Look, when I started up EB it works just fine. But after 15 mins it starts to freeze/lag. Why is this?
It's not my graphical options.
Nothing wrong with my specs.
I think there's something wrong in the game or something?

are you trying to move any units/characters more than they can move in one turn? this will cause very bad lag until you end the turn...

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

are you trying to move any units/characters more than they can move in one turn? this will cause very bad lag until you end the turn...

...but only if you have the auto-speed-up option turned on.

[Eros]

Nah I think I've got a small amount of RAM then.
But isn't it weird that it only happens to EB and not to RTW?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Not really, EB takes a whole lot more RAM than vanilla by reading the huge files, especially the script.

[Eros]

Okay ^^

Thanks a lot all!