The loading times are killing me....

[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...

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

[MSB]

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]

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

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

System:
CPU --> AMD Athlon64 3000 (1,8 Ghz, Venice core)
MB --> Asus A8N-E (nForce4)
RAM --> TwinMOS 2 GB (4 DIMM PC3200)
GPU --> Asus Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT (128 MB, Zalman VGA Cooler)
HDD:

• 1 --> Western Digital Special Edition SATA2 (16MB cache, 7200 RPM, 250 Gb)
• 2 --> Western Digital Special Edition UATA (8MB cache, 7200 RPM, 80 Gb)
• 3 --> Western Digital Special Edition UATA (8MB cache, 7200 RPM, 80 Gb)

Vanilla RTW:

Loading times:
Total Load Up (from double click to Main Menu): 19s
Campaign Load Up: 14s
Campaign End Turn: 21s

EB 0.8:

Loading times:
EB Total Load Up (from double click to Main Menu): 43s
EB Campaign Load Up: 28s
EB Campaign End Turn: 33s

[hellenes]

Then it has to be my RAM... ive got just 512mb...
I cant understand why M2TW loads up fast and not EB...and its not just the loading the menu is slow going into the custom battles and generally teh whole thing is kinda sluggish...
RTW vanilla runs liek charm...
BTW ive got a 9800PRO 128 mb....

[johnmk]

I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with your PC's hardware settings (e.g., something in your BIOS, etc.) OR some piece of software is gobbling up your CPU time, RAM, memory bandwidth, etc.

http://www.futuremark.com/download/pcmark05/

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.ht...64&langx=en&a=

Run PCMark2005 and some benchmarks from the SiSoft Sandra Suite, such as the Memory Bandwidth test, CPU test, hard drive benchmark, and maybe a couple of others if they seem pertinent.

Post your benchmarks. Something's definitely up.

[Shigawire]

Maybe you have been fooled into installing some adware or malware that's eating your system's resources - or specific memory-addresses - which in turn cause a "memory leak"?

Be careful what websites you visit.

But this is a good website to visit if you have problems like these:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Ad-Aware

Finds the cretins - let you stamp them out..

[PSYCHO V]

Ouch that hurts

As for me;

EB 0.8, RTW 1.5

Loading times:
Total Load Up(from double click to Main Menu): 21s
Campaign Load Up: 8s
Campaign End Turn: 6s
City Battle Load: 7s