Quote Originally Posted by GiantMonkeyMan
so people (aka me) might not have the money however.... and on 0.74 the extreme loading times were one of the reasons i could carry on playing... however i'm glad to hear it will be faster in 0.8
did you find out why it was so slow? or was just the huge amount of new stuff?
A combination of factors really.

Why EB 0.74 is somewhat slow:

-Regarding the battles, it's the fact that some units don't have the lower resolution 3d models yet. That severelly hampers performance when the camera zooms out.
-Regarding the campaign map, the sheer map size, the higher density of forests and the enormous size of the EB script all contribute to slow down the strategic part of the game.

Why EB 0.8 is faster than 0.74:

-RTW 1.5 has some graphical optimizations and that helps make 0.8 faster than 0.74 in the campaign and battle maps.

I can assure you that 1.0 will be faster in battles than 0.74 and 0.8, because, by that time, all lower resolution 3d models will be in-game. In regard to the strategic map, it will probabaly still be faster than in 0.74...