Lag on Campaign map

[L.C.Cinna]

Hello everybody!

First of all I wanted to say that I really enjoy EB 0.8. Just one thing is confusing me.

When I'm on the campaign map it's all a bit laggy and little freezes from time to time. I don't know what to do because the video options when in the campaign map don't offer too many settings. The weird thing is I can play on the battlefield with huge units and pretty high graphics settings and have no problems at all. Does anyone have a clue why the map could cause such problems and what I could do about it?

I mean I don't want to change graphics settings to low because of the map and change them to higher for each battle.

CPU is Pentium IV with 3.20 GHz
RAM 1024MB
DirectX 9.0c
Graphics card Radeon 9800XT 128MB


thank you :)

[Bouketsu]

Yeah I'm getting that too.. Could be from all the new trees and extra land marks they put in... Or the general map size itself, it is a lot larger than the original RTW.

[caravel]

I've just installed EB last night. I haven't played it as yet, but I did fire up a campaign just to see how it was running. The game itself took an absolute age to load, at one point I did think it had crashed and was hitting ctrl+alt+del. The campaign map lags horribly, as to be unplayable, a problem I had never had with Vanilla. The battles always lag a bit on my rig but not usually the campaign map.

My spec is:

Athlon XP 2400+ (2GHz) FSB 266
1GB DDR 266
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB AGP
Gigabyte GA7 VTXE+
Pathetic Maxtor 27.3GB HDD (I had a 60GB WD before this that died)

Apart from that this looks to be a great mod, just a pity that I can't play it!

I may have to throw this thing out and get a decent PC at some stage...

[cunctator]

Have you tried it without loading the background script?

[caravel]

The "background script"?

[Bava]

Your gfx card seems to be the weak point of your system. Do you play with shadows on the campaign map? Turning off that option and playing in a 800*600*16
resolution should vastly improve your performance, imo.

I´m playing on 3 GHZ, 512 mb, 5900XT comp now (my girlfriend tried to improve the performance of my new gaming rig with a cup of coffee and it didnt work out that well) and im having no lag at all.

Edit: How much virtual memory do you have?