The loading times are killing me....

**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!

**Tellos Athenaios** · 12-10-2006, 11:16

The problem seems to be a combination of an old graphics card + 'little' RAM. I suggest you switch all programs running on the background you can miss off, and give EB high priority with your task manager. Plus I suspect some exaggeration...

EDIT: Btw, are you using some sort of Intel graphics card?

**MSB** · 12-10-2006, 12:32

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

The problem seems to be a combination of an old graphics card + 'little' RAM. I suggest you switch all programs running on the background you can miss off, and give EB high priority with your task manager. Plus I suspect some exaggeration...

I have lower RAM and my computer is fine, no lag, nothing too slow. Anyway the loading gives me the opportunity to fully appreciate the music.

**Obelics** · 12-10-2006, 12:36

i dont know exactly the specs of my computer, it is an HP dual core, i think it is about 2 gigahertz, but im not sure.

anyway EB is fast, really fast, have the battlemap/campaignmap at max detail every think, 1280*1024*32 video, huge settings, and the only small scrolling delay is in the campaign map playing as gauls. But that is minimum. All is very fast, haven't counted the seconds, but it is very fast playing, and im sure my comp is not a sci-fi one... (in fact m2tw dont go that smoth well like EB)

and in the background there is running shieldwall+virus+azureus+mozilla