HUGE Improvement in Turn Time!

**Tellos Athenaios** · 03-09-2009, 15:39

Originally Posted by mcantu

my turns with EB 1.2 have always been around 1 min to 1:15. well a few months ago i installed a new 1TB hard drive as a storage drive (SATA II drive in a SATA I port). last night i finally got around to moving my RTW install and all associated mods from my old boot drive to the new one...holy crap! my turns in EB went down to 25-30 sec!!

Well I'd guess you went up from 5400rpm to 7200rpm and the former is no contender with the latter all other things being equal (and I presume they're not given how fast HD tech moves, so the old disk wouldn't've been a contender anyways). A possibility is that your OS swaps parts of RAM to HD when playing EB, something which should've gained a massive boost simply from improved sequential read times, however... that begs the question why you'd get away with 1:15 previously... (swapping trashes performance, due to the fact that a HD is easily a factor of 1000 slower than any RAM).

**keravnos** · 03-09-2009, 15:51

Another good idea would be to have EB on its own partition (if at all possible) that is defraged and has some free space. It runs as fast as possible.

**mcantu** · 03-09-2009, 16:45

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

Well I'd guess you went up from 5400rpm to 7200rpm and the former is no contender with the latter all other things being equal (and I presume they're not given how fast HD tech moves, so the old disk wouldn't've been a contender anyways). A possibility is that your OS swaps parts of RAM to HD when playing EB, something which should've gained a massive boost simply from improved sequential read times, however... that begs the question why you'd get away with 1:15 previously... (swapping trashes performance, due to the fact that a HD is easily a factor of 1000 slower than any RAM).

actually, my old boot drive is 7200 rpm like the new one. the new one is a Western Digital Caviar Black and is known to be a pretty fast drive. next up is to replace the motherboard with one that has SATA II ports...

**Aemilius Paulus** · 03-09-2009, 17:20

Hmm, well I recently upgraded to 4GB RAM from 1 and to open up EB it no take me about 10 seconds. The battles are much better too, although the campaign map runs on the same, unchanged speed.

As for my turns, they were always 5 seconds, even with my 1 GB RAM and 2.43 gHz processor.

**Tollheit** · 03-09-2009, 18:05

I have recently upgraded my RAM from 1 to 2 GB.
Better battles, generally better performance, considerably reduced frequency of CTD's (almost none now). My turns still take some time, though.

**A Very Super Market** · 03-09-2009, 23:37

I have 4Gb RAM, and turn times on BI are around 30 seconds.

**Slaists** · 03-13-2009, 14:30

I switched to using alexander.exe the other day.

1) loading the game up is way faster now
2) the turns take much faster

**Redmeth** · 03-13-2009, 15:28

My turns after the upgrade to E8400, 4GB DDR3, and a 640GB 7200 RPM with GTX260 Core216 are less than 5 seconds on Alex exe. I used to have turns of over a minute... I can now get a lot more done in a session.