Game Breaking Lag
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Game Breaking Lag
Hi guys,
I really love this game and I've been getting into it a lot lately, but unfortunately as I've gone on I've been faced with progressively worse lag. It's now at the point where the game will freeze for minutes at a time--oddly enough the music is still playing and I can move the mouse, but it's still frozen. In the last instance, the visual froze completely and irrevocably--I couldn't use the task manager or anything to exit out--but I knew from the sounds of diplomatic notifications that the game was actually still running.
It's freezing up completely about every ten minutes, and usually it will do so for a few seconds when I zoom in or out. Much of the time the lag will not freeze the game but simply slow everything down sporadically before speeding up again for a bit. Again, this seems to happen mainly when I zoom.
I thought it would be too much happening on screen--of course, you'd expect this sort of situation in a world war or something--but I have actually just undeployed a lot of troops--not that there were a lot of them anyway--and the problem has only gotten worse since then. The troops that I do have, meanwhile, are spread pretty evenly across the map, and I don't think that there are more AI units deployed than there ever have been. I tried deleting the save games with no luck, and I don't know what else to try. I'm running a 64 bit OS with a Quadcore processor and an AMD 7500 graphics card, so I really can't see that such a low end game should have so much trouble, especially when I run other much more graphically intense games without a hitch.
Any suggestions?
I really love this game and I've been getting into it a lot lately, but unfortunately as I've gone on I've been faced with progressively worse lag. It's now at the point where the game will freeze for minutes at a time--oddly enough the music is still playing and I can move the mouse, but it's still frozen. In the last instance, the visual froze completely and irrevocably--I couldn't use the task manager or anything to exit out--but I knew from the sounds of diplomatic notifications that the game was actually still running.
It's freezing up completely about every ten minutes, and usually it will do so for a few seconds when I zoom in or out. Much of the time the lag will not freeze the game but simply slow everything down sporadically before speeding up again for a bit. Again, this seems to happen mainly when I zoom.
I thought it would be too much happening on screen--of course, you'd expect this sort of situation in a world war or something--but I have actually just undeployed a lot of troops--not that there were a lot of them anyway--and the problem has only gotten worse since then. The troops that I do have, meanwhile, are spread pretty evenly across the map, and I don't think that there are more AI units deployed than there ever have been. I tried deleting the save games with no luck, and I don't know what else to try. I'm running a 64 bit OS with a Quadcore processor and an AMD 7500 graphics card, so I really can't see that such a low end game should have so much trouble, especially when I run other much more graphically intense games without a hitch.
Any suggestions?
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Re: Game Breaking Lag
Do you have the latest update?
BTW, our games are certainly not low end on the performance requirements, we have tens of thousands of units moving and over a hundred AI opponents.
BTW, our games are certainly not low end on the performance requirements, we have tens of thousands of units moving and over a hundred AI opponents.
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Re: Game Breaking Lag
I think so, since I have the game on steam.Balthagor wrote:Do you have the latest update?
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Re: Game Breaking Lag
If you want, zip and email me the savegame and I'll take a look. Please include ticket 20167 in the subject line.
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Re: Game Breaking Lag
Just to check here: None of you guys at BG are experiencing any slowdowns after the latest patch? I have a I7 920 @ 3.8 win 7 pro and a nividia GTX 680. When I first bought this game during the early release phase, I was getting about 2 seconds per day on the fastest setting at the start of a game. After about 4 to 5 years in game, it would go down some to about 5 or 6 seconds per day. Now during the start of a game I get about 4 to 5 seconds per day, and as soon as 1940 kicks in it slows to about 20 to 25 seconds per day; then progressively worsens. Any ideas about what's causing the bottleneck in certain Computers? I can't play the game right now.
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Re: Game Breaking Lag
You seem to be talking about SR1936. This thread is about SR-Cold War.stevehoos wrote:Just to check here: None of you guys at BG are experiencing any slowdowns after the latest patch? I have a I7 920 @ 3.8 win 7 pro and a nividia GTX 680. When I first bought this game during the early release phase, I was getting about 2 seconds per day on the fastest setting at the start of a game. After about 4 to 5 years in game, it would go down some to about 5 or 6 seconds per day. Now during the start of a game I get about 4 to 5 seconds per day, and as soon as 1940 kicks in it slows to about 20 to 25 seconds per day; then progressively worsens. Any ideas about what's causing the bottleneck in certain Computers? I can't play the game right now.
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Re: Game Breaking Lag
Crap, this is twice now for me. Does this absolve you from answering my question though?Balthagor wrote:You seem to be talking about SR1936. This thread is about SR-Cold War.stevehoos wrote:Just to check here: None of you guys at BG are experiencing any slowdowns after the latest patch? I have a I7 920 @ 3.8 win 7 pro and a nividia GTX 680. When I first bought this game during the early release phase, I was getting about 2 seconds per day on the fastest setting at the start of a game. After about 4 to 5 years in game, it would go down some to about 5 or 6 seconds per day. Now during the start of a game I get about 4 to 5 seconds per day, and as soon as 1940 kicks in it slows to about 20 to 25 seconds per day; then progressively worsens. Any ideas about what's causing the bottleneck in certain Computers? I can't play the game right now.
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Re: Game Breaking Lag
The answer would be, it's already discussed in another thread.
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Re: Game Breaking Lag
Sorry for not getting back to your earlier--I've cleaned up my disk and lowered the "satellite imagery" settings and the game is running much better now.Balthagor wrote:If you want, zip and email me the savegame and I'll take a look. Please include ticket 20167 in the subject line.