Temporary freezes when moving groups

[BigDuke66]

When I move bigger groups over a longer distance it often happens that the screen freezes and I see the blue animated circle what seems to mean that Windows 7 is busy with something.
Is this a TOAW problem or a Windows 7 problem?

[Curtis Lemay]

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

When I move bigger groups over a longer distance it often happens that the screen freezes and I see the blue animated circle what seems to mean that Windows 7 is busy with something.
Is this a TOAW problem or a Windows 7 problem?

It's not a problem. When you have a large map, only part of it is in RAM. If you move off that part of the map, the new map section has to be obtained from disk - hence the delay.

[BigDuke66]

Well that never happens when scrolling up & down in the game, only when I move too long or too much & too long and when the freeze is over the units have reached their destination.

[Curtis Lemay]

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

Well that never happens when scrolling up & down in the game, only when I move too long or too much & too long and when the freeze is over the units have reached their destination.

If you scroll far enough it will - if you scroll off the part of the map that is in RAM.

[Curtis Lemay]

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

Well that never happens when scrolling up & down in the game, only when I move too long or too much & too long and when the freeze is over the units have reached their destination.

It occured to me that this could be something else: There's a bug Ralph can't find because it is too intermittent. It does happen when moving units long distance (also during the interturn calculations). One characteristic of it is that the TOAW III logo in the top left corner disappears when it happens (replaced by a generic logo). If you see that, then you know this is what it is.

[BigDuke66]

Meanwhile I have the problem also in another situation, because for a scenario I play without combat reports so the game simply runs thru and usually after one or two battles the screens freezes but the battles run on, I couldn't see any logo disappearing but the top showed the usual "keine Rückmeldung"(not sure what an English Windows shows, maybe "no feedback").