Memory-fix by Harkonnen is out!

Can you name some other forums as big as CFC/Apolyton?

BTW, I think CFC gonna increase its audience a lot if all of them link here through this patch...

I don't mean to advertise CFC as the forum on its own. I mean to praise community which inspired me to write this :)
 
Kolyana
Yes, the "globeview fix". The globe in huge game is veerrrry slow. Before my fix I thought it's due to swapping, but now I see it has some other roots, so I am willing to fix that too.
 
I wanted to give you my amazing report, Mr. Harkonnen.

I applied your patch and inititialized everything as you suggested (all low settings, etc.). I loaded a game and zoomed in and out and ran through a turn of a saved game. As usual, motion was jerky and transition from normal to global view was highly delayed.

I then bumped up to "Medium" in game settings (which I played on prior to your patch). The results were the same, more or less. I exited the game and bumped up vid_mem_usage from 80 to 120.

I re-started the game (several times I had held down the [Shift] key to re-fresh the cache). The opening video was almost totally smooth! I then went into my saved game and tried global zoom out (back and forth a couple of times). Almost instantaneous! :eek: (before, it would take several seconds to transition).

Ending the turn, I received yet another surprise: the turn took approximately 1 second to calculate (before: ~5 seconds). Woah!

I am totally bought and sold on your patch, Mr. Harkonnen. Way to go! :goodjob:


My specs:

AMD Athlon 1900+
512MB of PC133 RAM
ATI Radeon 8500LE with patch 5.11 (AGP 4x)

My Settings:

patch_on = 1
vid_mem_usage = 120
insane_mode = 1


Thank you, sir.


EDIT: Another thing I just noticed: entering the various menus ([F1], [F5], etc.) is almost instantaneous! Before, I would have to wait sometimes for several seconds to get the information for these advisor screens! :eek:

Oh, by the way: Exit to desktop is superfast now (as opposed to super slow before!). :D
 
Harkonnen said:
Can you name some other forums as big as CFC/Apolyton?
Click to expand...
Not too many...I hardly have time to read and post here ;) ...I do read Apolyton, but never posted until today.

I have been to quartertothree.com - it has a few Civ forums - check the games section; I know Soren sometimes posts there...and check out the links page here on the main site....there are several forums listed there...
http://www.civfanatics.com/links/
 
Thanks Hark.
I shall try the 'insane_mode = 0' on my Home PC w/ the ATI x850xt Vid Card when I get home tonite.

On a good note for your reference.

I Upped the settings for my Work PC.
I put the 'vid_mem_usage = 80' to 'vid_mem_usage = 180'
No problems so far and I belive it actually improved the Game!

I prefer to play in Huge Terra Maps w/ 18 Civs.
Maxxing it out to make it semi-realistic when it comes to dealing w/ alot of different Civs to Rule the World Agaisnt.
I can even actually have my Web Browser, 1-2 programs and Civ4 running at the same time w/ no CTD or slow downs on my Work PC now :D

But ya, Why I find it interesting that my Work PC is soemhow running Civ4 Better than my Home PC lol
but liek I said I will try those changes in the INI file and hopefully improve my gaming on my Home PC even better :D
 
Leave it to me to be the difficult one... :)

OK, the patch actually seems to increase my memory usage... But, to be fair, I decided I would test it at the settings I normally play at, which would be 1280x1024, 4xAA and all set High...

I loaded the 1961 save pre-patch, and got 367,332 used by Civ's exe, with a 1.05 gig pagefile, for a total of 1,367,332 in combined usage...

Put in the patch, set insane_mode = 0 and vidmem = 64, as you suggested with High res, loaded the save, and got 573,824 used by Civ's exe, with a 940meg pagefile, for a total of 1,513,824 in combined usage... a 150meg increase...

I was going to try changing things around with vidmem and such, but every time after the first that I loaded the savegame, I got the "black terrain" and "white-box text" problems that many early ATI users reported, which is odd since I run an Nvidia 6600GT...

And, as you suspected, alt-tab and fullscreen definitely did not play well together...

Oh well.... Either I broke it, or for some odd reason my machine likes the 1.09 patch really good... :) As a side note, I was running a newer version of zlib and python24 than what shipped with Civ anyway, so that may have had some effect...

For the record:
Athlon XP 2600+ running at about 1.9GHz
1.5gig Ram
XFX Nvidia 6600GT w 128 vram
AGP aperture set to 128
 
Try holding down the [Shift] key while the game starts/initializes after you have change (increased) our vid_mem amount. See if that works. That was the key for me.
 
I just posted a news post about it on the main site. Thanks for your hard work, Harkonnen. :thumbsup:
 
Ok I just got home and changed the Insane Mode = 1 to insane mode = 0.
I still get a CTD when I load my Huge Map game w/ 18 Civ at 180 Vid mem.

SO far I can only make this fix work on default settings on my Home PC.
Guess I am trying to max my system beyond what it can.
Just I tought it should be able to handle more considering my work PC is not as good as my home PC yet the work PC can be pumped up a little more.
Work PC:
P4 3ghz
1gb RAM
GeForce FX5600xt 256mb

patch_on = 1
vid_mem_usage = 180
insane_mode = 1

Home PC
P4 2.4ghz
1.7gb DDR RAM
ATI x850xt 256mb

patch_on = 1
vid_mem_usage = 80
insane_mode = 1​
Just disappointed me I guess :(
Weird that I can set the Work PC at a higher setting and not my Home PC.

But I still love this fix :D
Definitely improved performance!
 
Harkonen, thanks mate, my game is less jerky now!

i have a 2400ghz, 1gbram, 64mb graphics,, and i set my vidmem usage to 40. Is that ok? what would be the best setting for a 64mb card?
 
hi i was wondering can this patch be applied for 64 MB video cards i have Geforce 4 mx 420 with 512 MB ram
 
I have an HP Computer.
Specs:
AMD Athlon 3200XP;
768 MB RAM (Virtual Mem set to 4096MB);
GeForce 3 Ti 200 64 MB Ram;
Win XP SP2;

What settings should I use?
 
vibsanghi
Yes, some peple with 64Mb reported it is working, though you will probably need to set 'vid_mem_usage' to 32 to 40 (by default it's 80).

Flash1
Yes, same as above...
 
Looks good, might give it a try.

Has Firaxis replied to you yet Harkonnen?
I'm curious to their response.
 
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