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Hi Erik, The "simulating turn" on my pc is crippling.

My specs: Pentium Extreme Edition 3.46 ghz Dual Core
2 Geforce 7800GTX in sli (256mb ram each card)
2 gigs of Ram
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
Windows XP

Regards,

Greg

ORIGINAL: Grell
Hi Erik, The "simulating turn" on my pc is crippling.
My specs: Pentium Extreme Edition 3.46 ghz Dual Core
2 Geforce 7800GTX in sli (256mb ram each card)
2 gigs of Ram
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
Windows XP

That makes no sense to me with those specs - I have a less powerful system and it takes about 20 seconds at most to calculate. What scenario is this with?

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

ORIGINAL: Grell
Hi Erik, The "simulating turn" on my pc is crippling.
My specs: Pentium Extreme Edition 3.46 ghz Dual Core
2 Geforce 7800GTX in sli (256mb ram each card)
2 gigs of Ram
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
Windows XP

That makes no sense to me with those specs - I have a less powerful system and it takes about 20 seconds at most to calculate. What scenario is this with?

I'm not seeing a problem in this regard either, none at all. And my system isn't a whole lot more muscular than Grell's:

Pentium C2D 3Ghz
8800GTX
4GB RAM
X-Fi Xtreme Music
WinXP SP3

Could you guys have something running in the background that's eating up your CPU cycles?

PoE (aka ivanmoe)

Another thought - what version of the game are you running? One of the v1.01 Betas had a bug that could drastically increase calculation time, but this was fixed before v1.01 official was released.

Hi Erik,

I'm playing a long, random campaign with 1st Panzer division.

Would you like a save game perhaps?

Regards,

Greg

P.S. I am playing 1.1 version not from the members club.

Sure, but you'll need to zip up and send to me your Data/Scenarios, Data/Campaigns and /Saves folders for the random campaign to work for me.

I'll send it to your private email okay?

Regards,

Greg

Yes, erikr@matrixgames.com please.

On it's way Erik!

Regards,

Greg

Hi Erik,

I am running the official patch on top of the regular install. Mind you previously, I had the betas of the patch installed. I installed the official version over them.

My system is an AMD 64 Athlon3500 with 2 Gigs Ram and a geforce 6600 256mb card.

My average wait times to simulate the move on a scenario like Mscenk Recon are about 30-45 seconds. Sometimes it goes down to 20 to 30 and it has got as high as 45 to 60 seconds. I do shut down anything that I have running that I do not need. Will keep you posted.

regards John.

I would like to see no simulating time at all. That is I would like to see, that during simulation the result is already displayed, even if this is resulting in a delayed time scale.

But with the official patch I am already down on around ~ 8 seconds simulation time on Mscenk Recon. (Intel DualCore around 2.13 Mhz, 2 GB RAM, 8800 GT). I can deal with 8 secs [8D].

I got significant improvements by stopping unnecessary and unwanted processes (examples: googleupdater, that one gave me some headaches earlier including bluescreens, made its way in with firefox beta probably. A lot of other unwanted updaters, I definitly have to shorten my interval on deleting this junkware. Stopping temporary HD Health utility and similar wanted utilities not needed around during gameplay also helped). Normaly I hate to get this kind of advice, but it is really necessary and the importance seems to be increasing every day (more junkware around). I use google to check the origins of the processes in the task manager to decide on my verdict, and after I stopped them successfully without problems manually, I finally put them in a batchfile (taskkill /F /T /IM junkware.exe). When I am in need of serious processing power i routinely invoke my killprocesses batch in advance, to get rid of the junksoft.

Regards
Motomouse

(P.S. If its a software I dont want around at all, msconfig utility is the place to delete it from the autostart procedures. Better place than manual killbatch)