How to speed up the game?

**Wojtek** · 04-10-2007, 13:04

Hello

I've just finished installing EB, and I have noticed that it runs much slower than original Rome. Is it normal?

I have 800MHz Duron with 256 MB RAM. Not much, but for Rome with average graphics stetup it was enough to fast play.

Regards
Wojtek

**Basileus Seleukeia** · 04-10-2007, 13:05

It has loads of background scripts, but it is worth it. But don't even try to play Sweboz.. the huge forests will make your PC creep at its limits...

**Foot** · 04-10-2007, 13:20

Originally Posted by Wojtek

Hello

I've just finished installing EB, and I have noticed that it runs much slower than original Rome. Is it normal?

I have 800MHz Duron with 256 MB RAM. Not much, but for Rome with average graphics stetup it was enough to fast play.

Regards
Wojtek

RAM is your biggest chokepoint here, for EB we recommend 1024 as a basic minimum, so I imagine that your game is running quite slow when it loads.

Foot

**Artificer** · 04-10-2007, 15:14

I found that I had trouble running EB as well, until I discovered one little trick. Battles went well, with framerates moving along at a steady pace and little to no lag, even with most of the graphical bells and whistles enabled. However, the campaign map proved to be a real beast. It took a long time to get the cursor to move anywhere, and precision placement of armies was a pain in the butt since the distance between where I had clicked and where I wanted them to go was rarely one in the same. All of this lag disappeared once I entered the graphical options menu on the campaign map and disabled shadows.

**alatar** · 04-10-2007, 15:36

You need more ram, at 512 it's slow, (But I have amassive page file which makes it a bit better after it loads).

**Shifty_GMH** · 04-10-2007, 15:42

I had issues running EB at first too. Tried using same graphics specs as I did when I played RTW....but battle map had tons of lag and campaign map had a little lag. Refused to play on unit size less than large. Left only one option.....turn down my graphic settings. I did...and it worked. I have since turned all graphic settings to low and it runs very smooth. Unit size on large, resolution set to 1024x768x32 and everything else set as low as I can get it. No AA and shadows turned off. I know I am missing out on some of the graphics....but I am willing to do that to field large armies.

If anyone is wondering my specs are as follows....

Intel P4 3.0 GHz with HT (prescott core), ASUS P4P-800E Deluxe mobo, 1 gb cosair ram (ddr 400, pc 3200), SATA 300 gb hd, 500 watt power supply, and 9800 SE ATI Radeon 128mb video card (source of my graphical woes).

**Fondor_Yards** · 04-10-2007, 20:49

I got my campaign turns to go lighting fast, with only 512 mb ram. The trick? Kill off 9 of the factions and reduce 3 others to only 1 town heh.

**Watchman** · 04-10-2007, 21:35

I seem to recall seeing it mentioned somewhere campaign map shadows ("stencil shadows" in preferences.txt) are personally offensive in the eyes of Performance and in great wrath and fury shall He stay the heck away when those are around.

**fallen851** · 04-10-2007, 21:48

Originally Posted by Legio X

....but I am willing to do that to field large armies.

If anyone is wondering my specs are as follows....

Intel P4 3.0 GHz with HT (prescott core), ASUS P4P-800E Deluxe mobo, 1 gb cosair ram (ddr 400, pc 3200), SATA 300 gb hd, 500 watt power supply, and 9800 SE ATI Radeon 128mb video card (source of my graphical woes).

I have a P4 2.6 ghz, 1gb of ram, and an ATI Radeon 9000 64 meg mobility card, and I run on large unit settings, with lots of graphics on and it runs great. This is on a laptop too... How can yours be running slow on the battlefield?

I suggest you get yourself some Omega Drivers, they work wonders: http://www.omegadrivers.net/

**Tellos Athenaios** · 04-10-2007, 22:08

Two possibilities:
either laptop users define lag a bit different (being used to less performance);
you could have different page file or RAM processing speed specs.