Chuda
Chieftain
Hi,
I'm finding that the game gets slower and slower the more I reload saved games. (And I'm a bit rubbish, so I reload *lots*!
)
These days, every time I want to reload, I find it's quicker in the long run to quit right back to Windows and restart the whole game.
Anyone else finding this?
I'm assuming this is one of these dreaded (mythical?) memory leak problems? As a matter of interest, I once started the game with Task Manager running and watched in disbelief as the game grabbed every last spare byte of my 1GB of RAM; and that was just to get to the main menu! Now *that's* one memory hogging main menu!
Another thing that amuses me every time I do it - turning on the grid (by clicking the left toggle button above the minimap). I simply cannot understand how something as simple as that can take anything up to 30+ seconds to do?
I'm really beginning to wonder whether we actually *need* all these flash graphics. We're here to play a strategy game, after all, not to look at eye-candy. I can't help thinking that they should include a "Simple Graphics" option. This would please the people who just want the game to run quickly and don't care how it looks. It would allow the people who are having problems to run the game (Albeit not in its full glory). And it would increase sales, because people with lower end system would still be able to play the game in "Simple Graphics" mode.
Seems logical to me.
I'm finding that the game gets slower and slower the more I reload saved games. (And I'm a bit rubbish, so I reload *lots*!
)These days, every time I want to reload, I find it's quicker in the long run to quit right back to Windows and restart the whole game.
Anyone else finding this?
I'm assuming this is one of these dreaded (mythical?) memory leak problems? As a matter of interest, I once started the game with Task Manager running and watched in disbelief as the game grabbed every last spare byte of my 1GB of RAM; and that was just to get to the main menu! Now *that's* one memory hogging main menu!
Another thing that amuses me every time I do it - turning on the grid (by clicking the left toggle button above the minimap). I simply cannot understand how something as simple as that can take anything up to 30+ seconds to do?
I'm really beginning to wonder whether we actually *need* all these flash graphics. We're here to play a strategy game, after all, not to look at eye-candy. I can't help thinking that they should include a "Simple Graphics" option. This would please the people who just want the game to run quickly and don't care how it looks. It would allow the people who are having problems to run the game (Albeit not in its full glory). And it would increase sales, because people with lower end system would still be able to play the game in "Simple Graphics" mode.
Seems logical to me.
