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I listed my game setup to illustrate that it's not just the galaxy's size but also the complexity of it. I have over 500 mini-carriers in my game, so over 4000 fighters in my empire; all of which need saving.

AHA! There's your problem, different from me since I build few carriers. I've never had a save take more than two minutes as a consequence. But you can't do much about the carriers of AI empires, so you still need a memory buffered hard drive to reduce save time.


Lonnie Courtney Clay

ORIGINAL: Lucian

ORIGINAL: Unforeseen

This is nothing , in MOO3 changing turns took over an hour by the time the game got to around turn 4OO to 5OO.

I'm trying hard to pretend that MOO3 never existed and this isn't helping.

LOL, I played it for a couple of weeks and gave up due to the long time. I played Space Empires IV and V but gave them up too due to the long turn processing waits...


Lonnie Courtney Clay

Buying the a -hybride harddisk has reduced the save and loading times..definitely the best and rather cheap solution and other slow games are working better too.. and can be used for musiccomposing programs too ..i am happy with this performance improvement.

I just got one of these on my computer :

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memo ... Z-7PD256BW

Cut my save time for a 45 megabyte file from 85 to 60 seconds, but my real problem seems to be my four year old motherboard and processor. That'll cost a bundle to replace...

Lonnie Courtney Clay

Yes, four year old motherboard and processor.. it is too old now these days this, and i am in the similar situation with a motherboard and processor, but it is still acceptable that it delivers some needed performance.
It is rather easy to upgrade with a new motherboard and processor, but there is still no real neccessity, because i can do what i like.
For 3 years i am using this pc configuration and it i still acceptable: that new shdd drive as you adviced me to buy, this is a real improvement and Distant world is playable.
bye
Jan

Honestly, the last time I had to replace my PC, I just bought a pre-built. Anymore its just as cheap and a whole lot less of a headache for me.

I priced it out, the cost was the same if I did it myself or let someone else do it.