Slowness from hell.

**rider** · 09-12-2008, 19:43

Ok. I got the game installed. And it's slow as hell.

I used all the tips in the 'quickening' topics' first posts, weren't sure about the rest.

Are there some movies I can delete, descriptions I can turn off (loading screen's?)?

The game took me around 30 minutes to go from running to the real actual game. :P

**Theodotos I** · 09-12-2008, 19:53

What's your computer like? Mine dates back to about 2000 and I'm up in running in ten. And plays at a decent rate. Hope you're able to find a solution--EB is worth it.

**Olaf The Great** · 09-12-2008, 19:53

How slow is hell.

**Lovejoy** · 09-12-2008, 19:54

Maybe you should buy another gig of ram? I guess you only have a half gig, right? Or you could try running the game with the "EBTrivialScript_setup" in your "extra" folder. This will make the game run alot quicker, but you will miss alot of the EB-goodies.

**Strategos Alexandros** · 09-12-2008, 20:22

I only have half a gig and it runs well (For a year I thought I had a full gig of RAM

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**rider** · 09-12-2008, 21:07

I'll check on most of the data later, but I should have around 200 MB of RAM. Also, it's a notebook and I can't add any ram or anything.

Slow as hell. Well. If the very first loading screen takes around 15 minutes to advance, you'll get the pic.

**satalexton** · 09-12-2008, 21:23

assign a whole load of virtual ram to your OS drive and the drive you install EB, i speeds things up by a lot

**||Lz3||** · 09-12-2008, 21:48

umm get quick kill

What I do to maximize my computer is
-run ccleaner
-defragment the harddrive
-Downloaded Quickkill
-Disabled all windows' animatiations I'm using the windows 98 skin and a black background btw
-Disable your Antivirus (to do so , right clic on the AV icon in the task bar (besides the clock) and select close or something..., whn you finish , run the AV again (start/all programs/ [your AV])
-I also downloaded 5star game tuner

as an extra... when EB loads up I alt-tab and open the task manager ,then I end the explorer.exe (which turns the desktop completely black, then close the tast manager and alt-tab to the game again... when you're done ,open the task manager/ new task / explorer.exe

also when using .exes diferent to .rtw the load times are 50% faster or so, I bealive alex.exe is faster but BI is also an improvement

with those my performanance goes up like 40-50%

**Cullhwch** · 09-13-2008, 01:08

200 MB of RAM? Yeah, that's not nearly enough to run EB well. How slow is regular RTW? I sometimes experience choppiness with 2 GB of RAM (mostly only in the first battle per game initialization).

**Cbvani** · 09-13-2008, 01:21

Agree with Cullhwch. You don't have enough RAM. I don't know about virtual RAM or any of that business.... I just get a prebuilt computer by throwing money at technical people and telling them "turn this into awesome."
I do the same at taco bell. I give them a 20 and say "turn this into tacos."

**rider** · 09-13-2008, 10:49

Normal RTW works quite fine. I can even play battles (since I lose quite a bit too much when I autoresolve). Granted, I'm on 'Small' unit size.

Still, normal RTW loads rather quick and seems otherwise fine to me also (except that the campaign map is full black and such).

Anyways, if I can't play EB... perhaps I can somehow play normal on the EB map (just as Mundus Magnus was but that didn't work for RTW 1.5)?