long turns every turn

**paramedicguyer** · 08-04-2009, 18:09

Ok, so is anyone experiencing 2- 4 minute turns every turn, how long is it supposed to take

**Prussian to the Iron** · 08-04-2009, 19:05

sometimes i will have A.I. turn cycles last about a minute or 2. not too long though.

i have also noticed that the turn times take about twice as long if you are at war with the enemy. especially if they are a large nation (like the ottomans or russia).

**Krauser** · 08-04-2009, 19:44

I think it heavily depends on processor speed. On my laptop with the bare minimum processor, it takes 5 minutes per turn. On my desktop with a midrange processor, it takes about a minute. In both cases, there are rare times where it takes much longer. I think it is a more advanced AI system with the capability for "learning". It just seems unfinished like they ran out of time when the game came out.

**Slaists** · 08-04-2009, 20:17

The turns do not take that much time for me. What has started to take really long (since 1.3) is battle-loads... Sometimes 5 minutes and higher. I had no issues with battle loads pre-patch (1.3), running the game on the same video quality (highest).

**Husar** · 08-04-2009, 23:20

I wish they were longer...

if that would mean the AI was actually better.

**vladiator** · 08-05-2009, 00:18

I have quad processor and 4gb of RAM and it still takes about 2 mins to go through turns...

**pevergreen** · 08-05-2009, 00:38

Dual core 2.5ghz 4gb ram on a laptop and it goes in about a minute. If that. Normally 30 seconds.

**paramedicguyer** · 08-05-2009, 00:56

All i know is that the turns can be so long I actually forget things that I wanted to do on the next turn while I;m waiting.

**oz_wwjd** · 08-05-2009, 06:46

I've had the AI take 30 minutes to finish a turn before,although I'm pretty sure that was a bug of some kind.

**Peasant Phill** · 08-05-2009, 09:22

I read a book while waiting for the AI or waiting for battles. I think that says enough.

**KHPike** · 08-08-2009, 20:53

I'm running a quad core and 4gb ram. At the beginning of the game turns take 1.5-2 minutes.

I believe this has something to do with the number of factions the AI has to calculate and think for (although it really isn't doing that great a job at it) since ETW has the most number of factions in a TW game to date.

That said, once you have opened a massive can of whooparse and destroyed many factions throughout the game the turns actually speed up! By end game when I usually have about 10+ factions left, the game takes just 30 secs to process a turn.

You may want to turn off the option 'View AI moves' at the beginning of the game. It will really save A LOT of time.

**Durallan** · 08-09-2009, 14:25

yeah it takes about that long, 1-2 minutes, isn't too bad considering how ancient my computer is, I wouldn't really care if it took 5 minutes to do a turn if the AI worked properly!