Imrove BtS performance / reduce game sluggishness?

[Melhisedek]

Please excuse me for my ignorance but how do you chose torodial map and what is toroidal map anyway (english is my 3rd language)?

Anyone please ?

 

[shaunthegreat]

Anyone please ?

I believe it's just one of the standard map types. so pick a new game, and select toroidal map.I don't usually play it though. I also don't have civ IV on this computer so I will have to go by memory. I think it's a more accurate representation of the earth (ie rounder), however I don't think you move faster closer to the poles. so perhaps it considers the squares closer to the poles smaller, but still represent one move. in other words, in game play, it makes no difference.

 

[Wodan]

Go into single player, Custom game.

Wodan

 

[krille]

Wow!

I got really fed up having EXTREME LAG AND SLUGGISHNESS playing a Duel size map with three AI opponents (and yes, the same computer at 1024x768 and everything @ lowest). So I decided to look up what's going on and noticed that the Civ4BeyondSword.exe process automatically sets itself to "Low" priority. Just by forcing it to "Normal" priority in the Task Manager I was able to improve performance and responsiveness considerably. Now, it doesn't fix it all. It's still sluggish and slow, but the improvement is substantial. This is a tip! Make sure your Civ4 process is running @ Normal priority (or above).

 

[Wodan]

Interesting.

Found some tips online. Turns out that the priority you set using Task Manager only stays as long as the app is the foreground process. Switching around will reset it back to low priority.

To keep something high priority, you have to force the priority when you start it. The easiest way is to create a batch file using notepad (save it as BTS-high.bat or something). Just use the Start.exe utility to launch the program of your choice in high priority (cmd /c start /High civ4beyondsword.exe).

Wodan

 

[Supr49er]

Isn't a toroidal map like a donut?

 

[Wodan]

Yes

Wodan

 

[krille]

Interesting.

Found some tips online. Turns out that the priority you set using Task Manager only stays as long as the app is the foreground process. Switching around will reset it back to low priority.

To keep something high priority, you have to force the priority when you start it. The easiest way is to create a batch file using notepad (save it as BTS-high.bat or something). Just use the Start.exe utility to launch the program of your choice in high priority (cmd /c start /High civ4beyondsword.exe).

Wodan

Couldn't get the batch script to work.

While running the line "start /High civ4beyondsword.exe" through the console did work, it did not produce the wanted result. The BtS process had reset itself to the lower priority (when I checked).