Game performance / Loading times

[Beeswax]

Hi community,

is there a comprehensive list of tips what I could do to improve the game performance/speed resp. reduce the loading times during turns?

I've got a quite powerful notebook (i7 processor), strong graphic card and proper RAM. Still, it seems impossible to play larger maps with - say - 12+ AI-civs, especially when entering the mid-game (not to mention the late game) without having at least 1 minute waiting between the turns.

I'd appreciate any input as C2C is a fantastic mod that deserves lots of playing!!!

Many thanks,

B

 

[AIAndy]

Hi community,

is there a comprehensive list of tips what I could do to improve the game performance/speed resp. reduce the loading times during turns?

I've got a quite powerful notebook (i7 processor), strong graphic card and proper RAM. Still, it seems impossible to play larger maps with - say - 12+ AI-civs, especially when entering the mid-game (not to mention the late game) without having at least 1 minute waiting between the turns.

I'd appreciate any input as C2C is a fantastic mod that deserves lots of playing!!!

Many thanks,

B

Mainly make sure that your energy management settings allow the processor to use one core at maximum speed. As there is little multithreading used yet, most of the processing has to be done on a single thread and therefore a single core.

Apart from that we try to improve the performance continuously so using the latest version is a good idea.

 

[Stormwind]

There are quite a few i7 mobile CPUs which have clocks under 2Ghz so without the exact model number we can't say if the CPU maybe not powerful enough for fast turns.

 

[Tehx]

Performance, e.g. reaction time when selecting untis, can be greatly improved by reducing graphic levels and by disabling AA. This may hurt since you have a good card as you say, but it works.

 

[AIAndy]

Performance, e.g. reaction time when selecting untis, can be greatly improved by reducing graphic levels and by disabling AA. This may hurt since you have a good card as you say, but it works.

I am pretty sure that that will not help in the case here as the problem are the computation of the game mechanics and AI and the resulting turn times, not the graphics.

 

[Tehx]

I am pretty sure that that will not help in the case here as the problem are the computation of the game mechanics and AI and the resulting turn times, not the graphics.

Sorry to hear that.. reducing graphics settings though certainly is on the list of things you can do to increase performance.

 

[AIAndy]

Sorry to hear that.. reducing graphics settings though certainly is on the list of things you can do to increase performance.

When you have performance problems during your own turn, reaction time and the like, then reducing graphics settings might help. During computer player turns the time for graphics computation is minor in comparison and also mainly done in the graphics card.
The major effort is done in the DLL code and Python and unfortunately in this Python implementation you can't do real multithreading and the DLL code is not designed for multithreading. So all that computation is done on a single core of your processor.
Unfortunately little progress has been made in this area in the last years and several of nowadays processors are actually worse in single core performance than those 4 years ago.

While there is the possibility to have multithreading in the DLL, this would be a LOT of effort which is currently better spent elsewhere.

 

[Koshling]

If you find yourself in a context wherevturn times seem to have increased significantly due to the way your specific game has evolved, submit a save game for analysis. Often we find bottlenecks in the code that only show up in certain circumstances such as related to map topology, or to things triggered by the discovery of particular techs, and so so. Generally speaking a save game exhibiting such behavior allows issues like that to at least be inderstood, and in many cases mitigated significantly.

 

[alb22]

Just wanted to post this thread here, with main focus on the blue quoted area.

Summary: Get a tool that lets you pick a specific pixel shader version and select v1.4.

Tried it minutes ago, and regarding lag time on unit selection, scrolling and overall gui reaction it lets your game make a sudden quantum jump.