Very long startup times

[Grillick]

I didn't even know that it was an issue until you mentioned it a few weeks ago, Kael. I've NEVER seen anything besides exclamation points there while playing FfH, even before I moved it.

 

[Sureshot]

ill try it out for a while to see if theres more issues.

is there a way to fix that? quick loading times is pretty nice

 

[Bringa]

This is awesome, thanks for the hint! I'll try it out next time we're playing. I wouldn't mind some smallish graphics glitches if this means not having to wait 3 minutes for a startup.

And for the record, FFH rules I'm playing a game of Kuriotates vs Khazad now. I'm Kuriotates. I'll found the dragon religion and see if it doesn't spread because that cultural decay thing sounds really evil ;P (yes, we're still in the "oh look at all the shiny new things you can do--let's try them all!" phase ;P)

 

[QES]

This is awesome, thanks for the hint! I'll try it out next time we're playing. I wouldn't mind some smallish graphics glitches if this means not having to wait 3 minutes for a startup.

And for the record, FFH rules I'm playing a game of Kuriotates vs Khazad now. I'm Kuriotates. I'll found the dragon religion and see if it doesn't spread because that cultural decay thing sounds really evil ;P (yes, we're still in the "oh look at all the shiny new things you can do--let's try them all!" phase ;P)

With the sheer amount of goodies and the way this mod is being developed, I dont think any of us will ever leave that phase.
-Qes

 

[Draconian]

Does anyone know a save way to move the complete "documents and settings" folder to another partition on w2k without reinstalling it? After taking a quick look at the registry I guess this is impossible without breaking several keys or having to edit them all (hereby I declare every developer that uses the absolute path instead of %USERPROFILE% insane)
So moving ffh to /my games is no option for me. My system partition is system only. Period. :/

 

[coko]

Could you not possibly mix things so it loads from Mods document but reads from My Computer?

My issues is it runs off my second Hard Drive, but windows is on first, makes for interesting affect. That and it keeps wanting to put it into my program files that is empty can't remember the amount of times i randomly load a patch and it has appeared on its own randomly in C:.

 

[Keldan]

Impatience of youth... What is three minutes when playing during three hours ?
Launch FfH, take a fresh drink, go to toilet, empty the ashtray and these three minutes are gone... and you're full ready for three hours far away from the real world

 

[Sureshot]

in multiplayer games where people crash a lot it can be troublesome having to wait 3 minutes just to get everything restarted again

 

[Lord Vermillion]

in multiplayer games where people crash a lot it can be troublesome having to wait 3 minutes just to get everything restarted again

hehe AGREED!!!!!!

 

[Jono]

It usually takes a minute with my new PC

 

[Lord Vermillion]

I noticed it shaved about a min. and a half or more off of my startup time. This is a fair exchange for the "!" in the city build picture icon thing.

 

[Sureshot]

its also useful to have quick loading times when youre messing around with the files, since testing usually requires reloading the mod a lot

 

[Kael]

its also useful to have quick loading times when youre messing around with the files, since testing usually requires reloading the mod a lot

When do you think I do all my posting here?

 

[Sureshot]

heh

another issue i noticed is the PLE unit info pane doesnt show up when you mouse over the units.. i think thats cause of the quickloading thingy, unless its from the most recent patch?

 

[vorshlumpf]

Nope, that's patch j.

- Niilo

 

[Bringa]

Yep, multiplayer and crashing PC were precisely the scenario that made the three minute startup time so annoying. It's all good now.

Note: just COPYING the directory doesn't seem to work. You really need to move it.

 

[vorshlumpf]

Yep, multiplayer and crashing PC were precisely the scenario that made the three minute startup time so annoying. It's all good now.

Note: just COPYING the directory doesn't seem to work. You really need to move it.

If you don't want to remove the directory from the default installation location, I'm sure renaming the FfH folder will have the same effect as moving it (e.g., copy the folder from C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Mods\ then rename the original to "Fall from Heaven 2 015-bk").

- Niilo

 

[BlazeRedSXT]

I tried to move the folder to MY Games.. I did get all teh ! icons in the city build areas.. that in itself isn't b a big deal.. you can read whats being built right next to the icon, but I couldn't cast any spells. for any unit type... that was something I couldn't live without(especially since it inculded building mana nodes interestingly enough). Not sure what happened, but I can say it loaded like a champ then.

Deathling, may I ask what your set-up is like? Mine isn't anything to awve off and it still takes almost a full 2 minutes...

Cheers!

 

[Grillick]

I haven't played FfH in a couple weeks. (School started last week, and I'm still getting into the swing of things.) But never in the past have I had problems with spellcasting with the game in My Games...Perhaps it's something new?