Hude End Turn Loading Times

[Ashdrake]

Hello.

Do you guys experience up to 30-45secs end turns when it's been more than 1000AD in the game.

I started as japanese and after 1700ADs the game was becoming unplayable. I was waiting for over 1 min after each end turn.

I am runnin a phenom 9950 w/ 4gigs of ram and 9800gtx video graphs.

This stuff also happend on my old pc a amd athlon xp 2200 with 1gb of ram, but that one was starting since turn 100 or so (after rome spawns). Now i like the mod but wtf? i shouldnt be forced to buy a better processor just to play the game normally.

else until up to 1000ADs the game's snappy, afterwards it begins to suck and from 1700 onwards it sucks badly.

FIX THIS . .. .. .. .!

 

[AnotherPacifist]

You must not be running the newest version (with cPickle instead of Pickle in the code). I have a Core2Duo at 2.3 mHz with 2gigs of ram and it's running fine (maybe 5-10 secs after 1700, but I can tolerate that).

Of course I like the old versions better myself, if you know what I mean...

 

[Ashdrake]

What new version???

I just went to the "download latest version" thread and just DL-ed the thing there?

Should i get anything else?

(sorry i'm very very clueless on this)

 

[Rhye]

please open the civilopedia and take a look inside the RFC intro section - what's the version number?

 

[Ashdrake]

doiung that now.

 

[Ashdrake]

here it says 1.184 on the RFC intro page.

 

[Ashdrake]

Anyone has a fix for this, i really really love Rhys mod (the reason i bought such a powerful PC was just so i could be certain i could play it) so anyone has a solution. I just downloaded the latest files i have version 1.184 but i dont know why this is happening.

 

[AnotherPacifist]

Maybe you should reinstall BTS completely (on my previous computer without a lot of hard disk space it was kinda slow, probably because the application was fragmented).

Also, I know you have a powerful graphics card, but maybe turning it down to medium graphics would help?

 

[smile286]

I got Core 2 Duo @ 2.1 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 9600 or smth. And it runs perfectly.
Maybe you should check your software? I think you are running a LOT of useless programs...

And also this happens to all games you are running? Or just RFC?

 

[blizzrd]

I had your problems with my old PC with lower specs but I upgraded a few months ago and have never had a problem since.

 

[coko]

On reinstalling BtS I noticed a similar slowdown, but I put it down to old age.

 

[onedreamer]

there is a big difference between "after 1000AD" and "1700AD". Slowdowns start usually after 1750AD although 30 seconds are maybe a bit too much, not to mention 45. Before starting to worry too much I'd ask if you actually timed those seconds or you're just throwing a guess ?

 

[Ashdrake]

Hello.

First of i would like to thank you for taking the time to trouble shoot my problem.
To answer a few questions here.

1) I only get this while running RFC, i also run FFH mod and i play it with 24 civs on huge maps and i have no problem with it, the loading times to the end rarely go beyond 5-10seconds per turn
2) This happens only to RFC mod game, every other game i run runs just fine (crysis all to extra high with antializing 2x getting over 25 FPS, Gears of War for the PC all full settings, etc)
3) Yes i timed the end turns, it was between 20seconds and 45seconds (it depends on god knows what?)
4) I am also running windows vista ultimate with 64bits but since i have 4 gigs of ram and i'm running crysis with all settings to ultra high i cant see how that is an issue)
5) I have 2 SATA HDD, one of them has the windows and my work stuff, the other one has the games, swap file is on windows HDD so it cant be because i have everything on 1 HDD, also the computer is new, barely has 1 month or so and the games HDD is even newer, bought it like 2 weeks ago

Thanks for all your help.

 

[musicfreak]

Maybe you should check your software? I think you are running a LOT of useless programs...

That would probably be your best bet. I can't imagine what else it could be... Have you tried reinstalling BTS? I doubt it would help but who knows?

 

[onedreamer]

I highly doubt it, I think long turn times don't depend much on memory but on the processing capacity; most of that "useless" software is made up of sleeping processes that only eat up memory. I'd rather look at number 4 in Ashdrake's list.

 

[Panopticon]

CPU cycles also seem to be the main constraint on Civ on my computer, and I don't have a particularly strong processor speed.

 

[Ashdrake]

Hello.

My processor CPU usage neever goes beyond 10% while playing CIV, and i have a 2.6Ghz Quad processor, so meh, i dont think the processor has anything to do with it, maybe it's vista weirdness??

 

[Lone Wolf]

Dunno, RFC shouldn't demand more then the classic huge 18civs Earth map. Strange.

 

[onedreamer]

Hello.

My processor CPU usage neever goes beyond 10% while playing CIV, and i have a 2.6Ghz Quad processor, so meh, i dont think the processor has anything to do with it, maybe it's vista weirdness??

The cpu USAGE isn't an indicator of the cpu SPEED. Also I don't think this application will use more than one processor, so you should count one 2.6GHz processor. But I'd still point my finger at the OS like I said.

 

[onedreamer]

Dunno, RFC shouldn't demand more then the classic huge 18civs Earth map. Strange.

RFC makes a lot more checks and calculations...