Speeding up those SLOW turns!

[Sethar]

A few days ago I was playing a huge map with 14 civs, and it was taking 3-5 minutes to process the computers turns...which was just a bummer. I did some hunting around on the forums and didn't find a solution (I have to admit, I didn't look extremely hard) but I did see a few people complaining about the same thing.

Something I did to speed up those slow turns (and I would read up on setting process priority and what effects it can have before you do this) is set the Civ3Conquests.exe process to high priority. You do this by hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL and clicking on the processes tab, locating the Civ3Conquests.exe, rightclicking on it, going to 'set priority', and selecting High. (this is for windows XP)

Doing this knocked computer processes down from taking 3-5 minutes to taking 30 seconds - 1 minute. (Athalon XP 2400+ 786MB PC2100 RAM)

Keep in mind when you set a process at higher priority it will run before other processes, so it has a risk of locking or crashing should you have a lot of things running because it will deny those other processes resources...I just have civ3 conquests and the ATI system tray and World Community Grid running when i do this and i have yet to crash.

Hope this helps!

Sethar

 

[Turner]

One could do this. In fact, I do it for spybot, makes it run a lot quicker.

The easiest, best way to speed the game up is to play smaller maps. It's just the nature of the larger maps to take more computation time. Personally, it doesn't bother me. Yes, there are times when i'm in a hurry, and it's inconvenient. But it doesn't happen that often.

Adding more memory will see an increase in the game time too, but not as much as playing a smaller map.

 

[bjbj1991]

I never heard of that befor can you tell me were to find it?
Thanks

 

[techbota]

I never thought of the processes trick...I got to try it.

PC2100 RAM is a big problem for you. Most likely your MB is aging as well. You should update to a new MB and faster memory...atleast pc 3200

Although with the new rocking 64 bit amd's I personally am going to just replace my comp and make it a server. Too much fast technology out there.

Try turning off auto moves and animated battles as well.