Hickupppppps

[etipac]

I have a pentium 4 and whenever i play the 1.2version of EB with large armies it goes well for a bit but after in a battles the speed starts to stop and start like if on hickups. When I first go onto options the system gives me that its better to play on normal then large but i prefer large. Did anyone have this problem and a possible way out?

Should I downgrade to normal??

Etienne

[Ibn-Khaldun]

You should set all other options to low(or lower). Large armies themselves should not cause it.

[etipac]

Yes that what will I do. and will try to post back. Anyone has anymore clues...

Etienne

[bovi]

Set the CPU affinity to only use once processor.

[etipac]

@ bovi

can you please tell me how? As I am a tech allergic person.

I reastarted a new game with Normal unit size and everything set to low but it happened again.

Thanks Once more.
Etienne

[Tellos Athenaios]

You need to bring up the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del); then use the Processes tab to find the RTW process. Right click it and from the menu which pops up set its affinity to use only core.

I may be mistaken, but your problem could actually be due to the well known RTW problem of memory leaks, though. It doesn't help that the Pentium IV has basically the threading performance of a couple of processors back, which is to say that the memory clean up thread could be throttling the rest of the application for quite a while once it starts doing a heavy duty clean up task: I recommend to try to wait half a minute or so after fighting a battle before you continue doing anything on the strat map... See if that reduces the problem.