Lag on Campaign map

**caravel** · 01-22-2007, 14:24

The "background script"?

**Bava** · 01-22-2007, 14:41

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?

**caravel** · 01-22-2007, 15:12

Originally Posted by Bavarian Barbarian

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.

The graphics card needs to go, it's on borrowed time already, the problem is finding something reasonable, and AGP, to go in there. I'm not a big spender on hardware, having the latest rig doesn't appeal to me, if it works then it's good enough. If I can find an AGP graphics card that will do the job I'll get it, but they're getting harder to come by and I'm not keen on getting one off ebay.

I think I may have turned the campaign map shadows on when I was fiddling about and forgotten to turn them off. They would definitely slow it down, like you say. I'm running it at 16bpp now, though at 1024*768.

Originally Posted by Bavarian Barbarian

Edit: How much virtual memory do you have?

I need to check that one as well... I usually restrict it through system.ini, it's not a problem though for the moment as I intend to put XP back on there tonight. I'll try all of your advice then.

Regards

Caravel

**Bava** · 01-22-2007, 15:50

Hm, i think the AGP X800 and 6200 series are available for ca. 35 - 50 euros now. But im sure the guys at the Apothecary can you some further information.

Hope i could help!

**caravel** · 01-22-2007, 16:29

Originally Posted by Bavarian Barbarian

Hm, i think the AGP X800 and 6200 series are available for ca. 35 - 50 euros now. But im sure the guys at the Apothecary can you some further information.

Hope i could help!

I had looked at the X800 the X1600 and a few others. I'll look into it, thanks again.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 01-22-2007, 18:24

Yeah, that graphics card is really holding you back in relation to the rest of the specs - it's not surprising that EB is taxing it quite a lot.

It's the trees mostly, but also the campaign map resources too - that are causing the problems. The size of the map too doesn't help though.

Try to remove your city and character names also on the strat map - there's a shortcut key to bring up the shortcuts to all of those options.