Wodan
Deity
Clearly, more than you have.
I'd say 4gb RAM and a hefty graphics card. (When I upgraded to 4gb there was a world of difference in my CIV playing.)
[BtS] Rise of Mankind 2
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I'd say 4gb RAM and a hefty graphics card. (When I upgraded to 4gb there was a world of difference in my CIV playing.)
Wodan
Deity
Add RAM.
BobTheBull
Warlord
Thanks Aforess. Actually after looking at it closer I believe it's RevDCM 2.51 SDK, the latest version. This mainly clears up some bugs and most RevDCMers consider it to be a good improvement.
So then, ROM2 is just a modded RevDCM, saving me a lot of trouble. Now I have to brush on my modularity so I can add some units and other things.
I would like to add the Mountains modcomp also; I can do this as hardcoded part of the game, but would like to be able to turn it on and off. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to do this (on/off)?
So then, ROM2 is just a modded RevDCM, saving me a lot of trouble. Now I have to brush on my modularity so I can add some units and other things.
I would like to add the Mountains modcomp also; I can do this as hardcoded part of the game, but would like to be able to turn it on and off. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to do this (on/off)?
Afforess
The White Wizard
You mean you want an on/off option when your messing with custom maps setting's ingame? You're asking the wrong forum, ask in the SDK/Python forum, that's where I get my SDK help.
Can anyone here please verify this problem:
All logging options turned off in Civ.ini file. All logging turned off in BUG Options screen.
The system is still logging MPLog.log and XML.log in:
/My Games/Civ../log/
Currently on a large map it is logging in a single player game over 50 megs of TEXT per turn. Just having a file open for writing that large is taking considerable resources, and def. slowing the game down over 40%.
Can someone please verify and possibly find a way to disable this.
Thanks,
CivFanCCs
All logging options turned off in Civ.ini file. All logging turned off in BUG Options screen.
The system is still logging MPLog.log and XML.log in:
/My Games/Civ../log/
Currently on a large map it is logging in a single player game over 50 megs of TEXT per turn. Just having a file open for writing that large is taking considerable resources, and def. slowing the game down over 40%.
Can someone please verify and possibly find a way to disable this.
Thanks,
CivFanCCs
Kroyon
Chieftain
Hi all
since a few patches ago it seems that mechanized infantry has changed, when building one the increased city defence promotion is unavailable. What is the reason for that and what would be a similarly as effective city defensive unit?
Basically, I don't understand why modern infantry has that promotion but mechanized does not.
Is this change from BtS or RoM?
Also I noticed a major improvement with patch 3.19 regarding MAFs, I can now play
huge maps and play for hours. Might get a MAFs or two later in game but nothing as bad as before the patch. Good job Firaxis! And good job Zapp, this latest RoM version is really very good.
Thank You!
since a few patches ago it seems that mechanized infantry has changed, when building one the increased city defence promotion is unavailable. What is the reason for that and what would be a similarly as effective city defensive unit?
Basically, I don't understand why modern infantry has that promotion but mechanized does not.
Is this change from BtS or RoM?
Also I noticed a major improvement with patch 3.19 regarding MAFs, I can now play
huge maps and play for hours. Might get a MAFs or two later in game but nothing as bad as before the patch. Good job Firaxis! And good job Zapp, this latest RoM version is really very good.
Thank You!
I think this because it is a tracked unit and not a gunpowder unit.
dcmort93
The Stig
yes but vanilla bts has it as a gunpowder unit because infantry upgrade to it
Kroyon
Chieftain
Yeah it looks as if that's it. City Garrison promo isn't available to Tracked units, damn that suck. I agree that tanks shouldn't have it, but mech inf advertise as having +25% city defense as standard, whereas all other tanks have no defensive options. So why not put mech inf into some other trees?
Kroyon
Chieftain
Those drivers are very old, latest are 190.38
Kroyon
Chieftain
You can't get water out of rock!LOL!
Do not increase RAM, anymore than 2gb on 32bit operating system is a waste of money. Also no point adding RAM when the rest of hardware sucks (GPU/CPU), you be
just creating a bottleneck.
Either play smaller maps or buy a faster/more powerful machine.
Afforess
The White Wizard
That is correct. The max is 3454mb of ram on a 32bit system.
Kroyon
Chieftain
Well it is actually 3gb on XP and only on 32bit CPUs less than 2-3 years old(they can
process some 64bit commands).
For older CPUs you need to edit your boot.cfg too even get the system to see 3gb.
But then each program will only use a maximum of 2gb
Although it does help to have spare mem to run everything else while you play the game. Unless you really under RAM there is really no point to go buy more if your machine is slow for games, if you have 1gb yeah go buy more but if you already at 2gb, adding more is not going to make that much of a difference for games.
Playing games that require a lot of resources also require a strong machine, and BtS
does require a lot of resources for big maps.
Crevex:
You might need to edit your startup using msconfig to eliminate all the background programs you dont need, disable your internet/LAN connection, disable your antivirus/firewall and lower all the settings within BtS to the lowest possible configuration.
Then depending on your PC specification (which you haven't told us yet) you might be
able to play large maps to some degree.
process some 64bit commands).
For older CPUs you need to edit your boot.cfg too even get the system to see 3gb.
But then each program will only use a maximum of 2gb
Although it does help to have spare mem to run everything else while you play the game. Unless you really under RAM there is really no point to go buy more if your machine is slow for games, if you have 1gb yeah go buy more but if you already at 2gb, adding more is not going to make that much of a difference for games.
Playing games that require a lot of resources also require a strong machine, and BtS
does require a lot of resources for big maps.
Crevex:
You might need to edit your startup using msconfig to eliminate all the background programs you dont need, disable your internet/LAN connection, disable your antivirus/firewall and lower all the settings within BtS to the lowest possible configuration.
Then depending on your PC specification (which you haven't told us yet) you might be
able to play large maps to some degree.
dcmort93
The Stig
hey i run bts on the max graphics settings on a 32 bit vista with 2 gigs of ram and i have little to no problems on my late games on the huge maps
primordial stew
Emperor
> But then each program will only use a maximum of 2gb
In my last game, which is on a huge map, the process was taking ~1.4G under winxp 32b (with /3G enabled), but it went all the way up (some turns later..) to 3.4G under win7x64 rc!
In my last game, which is on a huge map, the process was taking ~1.4G under winxp 32b (with /3G enabled), but it went all the way up (some turns later..) to 3.4G under win7x64 rc!
Kroyon
Chieftain
Well yeah 64bit is different, i was talking about 32bit
I know 64bit CPUs and software can go much higher.
Wodan
Deity
Going up to 4gb has benefit because it maxes the capacity available to XP (Vista is irrelevant to this discussion). Unless you're mixing & matching SIMMs you have to have multiples of 1gb or 2gb, so your choices are 2gb, 4gb, 8gb, 16gb. And mixing and matching is generally a bad idea. So, going to 4gb does indeed have significant value.
And, the game will use up to 2gb, so if you only have 2gb, then you're not giving the game the full amount because XP itself plus all the other processes you're running will eat up >1gb by themselves.
So, don't pay any attention to these naysayers. Besides, memory is cheap these days.
And, the game will use up to 2gb, so if you only have 2gb, then you're not giving the game the full amount because XP itself plus all the other processes you're running will eat up >1gb by themselves.
So, don't pay any attention to these naysayers. Besides, memory is cheap these days.
