The loading times are killing me....

**hellenes** · 12-10-2006, 05:57

7-8 minutes to start the game....
5-6 minutes to load the savegame...
2 minutes to start the script...
3-4 minutes to get the first turn going...
2-3 minutes to load the first battle...
25 minutes...everytime I start a game..sometimes even HALF an HOUR...
Are the lengthy descriptions/traits/faction descriptions really worth this chore?

**Dram** · 12-10-2006, 06:03

unless youre running the game on a 486 theres something seriously wrong with your computer if its really taking anywhere near that long.

i run an old comp, athlon 1.7A, 1g ram, 45gb HDD etc, and it takes around 2 minutes to start the game and 1 minute to load a campaign. starting the script takes a fraction of a second.

**hellenes** · 12-10-2006, 06:09

Originally Posted by Dram

unless youre running the game on a 486 theres something seriously wrong with your computer if its really taking anywhere near that long.

i run an old comp, athlon 1.7A, 1g ram, 45gb HDD etc, and it takes around 2 minutes to start the game and 1 minute to load a campaign. starting the script takes a fraction of a second.

Ive got a P4 at 2.8ghz 512 RAM 120gb hdd and vanilla RTW loads up in a minute or 2...
Even M2TW loads up in couple of minutes...
Its just EB that takes that long...

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 12-10-2006, 06:09

25 minutes to "start a game"? That's very strange. Even the slowest of all EB development computers was never anywhere near that. Take a look:

AMD Athlon 756 MHz
320 MB RAM
Radeon 9200

Total Load: 3 min 40 sec
Camapaign Load: 3 min 35 sec
End Turn: 2 min 43 sec

I will just politely say that your numbers sound like either (1) you have an incredible number of other things running simultaneously, (2) you have a computer much much worse than the ones whose specs we listed above, or (3) there is something else at work here.

**hellenes** · 12-10-2006, 06:11

Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

25 minutes to "start a game"? That's very strange. Even the slowest of all EB development computers was never anywhere near that. Take a look:

AMD Athlon 756 MHz
320 MB RAM
Radeon 9200

Total Load: 3 min 40 sec
Camapaign Load: 3 min 35 sec
End Turn: 2 min 43 sec

I will just politely say that your numbers sound like either (1) you have an incredible number of other things running simultaneously, (2) you have a computer much much worse than the ones whose specs we listed above, or (3) there is something else at work here.

The only thing running in the backround is zhotkey that operates my keyboard...
I dont know what might eb the reason...

**abou** · 12-10-2006, 06:20

Do you have a separate graphics card? You might be running into a bottleneck with RAM.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 12-10-2006, 07:04

My system:

EB 0.80 (on RTW 1.5):

Equipment
-AMD Athlon 1.3 GHZ
-1.0 GB DDRAM
-Nvidia GEForce4 MX 4000 128MB (Dual Monitor - this is one of those that can't show our campaign map trees, but uses sprites for them instead)
-186 GB HD - NTFS, half full (Haven't defragged my HD in ages, it's in much need of it)

Loading times
EB Total Load Up(from double click to Main Menu): 2m 15s
EB Campaign Load Up: 1m 35s
EB Campaign End Turn: 1m 13s
EB City Battle Load: 1m 05s

(Note: Faction = Epeiros)

This is with only two other Mozilla windows open.

**MSB** · 12-10-2006, 10:41

My system:
Nvidia Geforce 4 MX4000 128MB (yes trees and such like are sprites)
32GB Hard Drive
256MB DDR RAM
AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Vanilla Load Times:
Start: 20 seconds
Campaign Start Up: 1.5 minutes
Battles: Up to 5 minutes (depending on battle size and how long I had been playing for)
First Battle: 40 secs
End Turn: 30 secs - 2 minutes

EB Load Times:
Start: 10-15 minutes
Campaign Start Up: 5 minutes
Battles: Up to 7 minutes (depending on battle size and how long I am playing for)
Script: Script loads in less than a second - time for the adviser to turn up for a script is 10 secs
End Turn: 1 minute - 2 minutes
First Battle: 50-40 secs

I may be better off because I have loaded it to optimum settings for EB on my PC:
Options - Video Options - Change the preset value to speed - (optional) Change the unit scale to normal

Don't worry about appearance - it actually looks better (for me) on lower settings!

**khelvan** · 12-10-2006, 09:29

Originally Posted by hellenes

7-8 minutes to start the game....
5-6 minutes to load the savegame...
2 minutes to start the script...
3-4 minutes to get the first turn going...
2-3 minutes to load the first battle...
25 minutes...everytime I start a game..sometimes even HALF an HOUR...
Are the lengthy descriptions/traits/faction descriptions really worth this chore?

Equipment:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.67GHz
- 4.0 GB Mushkin DDR2-800 XP2-6400 eXtreme
- Sapphire Radeon X1950 PCI Express 512MB DDR4
- WD Raptor 74GB SATA 10,000RPM HDD w/16MB Buffer

Vanilla RTW 1.5

Loading times:
Total Load Up(from double click to Main Menu): 25s
Campaign Load Up: 10s
Campaign End Turn: 7s
City Battle Load: 14s

EB 0.8, RTW 1.5

Loading times:
Total Load Up(from double click to Main Menu): 30s
Campaign Load Up: 15s
Campaign End Turn: 11s
City Battle Load: 15s

**Caratacos** · 12-10-2006, 10:18

My load times are similar to that of Teleklos Archelaou. My machine is getting pretty old though, so i cut it some slack.

However that old saying comes to mind-- Good things take time. And i daresay that EB qualifies as a good thing. But 25mins, hellenes... i suggest keeping a book or something close-by.