EB loading time?

[Paganist]

If I haven't misunderstood badly, it its because of EB has so big descriptions for every faction + all the pictures and other stuff at menu. Loading those takes for a while. But try EB with ALX exe. It made game to load faster - at least for me ;)

[AqD]

If I haven't misunderstood badly, it its because of EB has so big descriptions for every faction + all the pictures and other stuff at menu. Loading those takes for a while.

But not much more models or units - there are hardcoded limits and several other mods use up to the limits as well. So I'm wondering what's really making EB slow?

But try EB with ALX exe. It made game to load faster - at least for me ;)

Yeah much faster, especially the graphics. That's why I only ask for loading time now :)

[LorDBulA]

But not much more models or units

Are you serious?
We are quite close to the limit.

Its more of a guess but I would say around 5 times the number of original RTW.

[AqD]

I know but RTR and RTR-based mods are close to the limit too, and probably some others such as RS. So it proves the units/models alone can't slow down loading time a lot.

[Hax]

Takes about 4 minutes to load here.

Specs are:

-nVidia 7600+6600 Crossfire 256 MB each
-Pentium IV processor
-2 GB RAM

[LorDBulA]

Use filemon. It reads lots and lots of files.

From what I remember campaign Faction descriptions somehow have quite significant impact on loading time.
They where shorten to speed things up. Try delete them and check the difference.

[mcantu]

Are you talking about loading at the beginning of the game or how long it takes to end a turn? If the latter, removing the Client Ruler portion of the script reduced my turn wait time by about 1 min..,.

[Maksimus]

I will just add that ALX.exe has DMB cap on 500 models (and by now we use about 300 models which is 50 models more than RTW.exe DMB cap)

So even with those +50 models the game is much faster on ALX.exe (and I wont measure time coz I got very nice PC and it takes me less time for anything = sometimes 10-15 seconds to roll a turn or even faster sometimes if I play small battle)