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My SAVE folder contains nothing but a placeholder

FWIW, guys who like to play against the AI should take a bite out of Ironman.

Ouch, ouch & again ouch - that *really* s*cks.

See if you can find a file named 'wpae002.pws' in your Matrix 'SAVE' folder, this file is auto-created/overwritten when you tag the 'End the orders phase' button. If it exists, it'll contain all your recent orders for the turn, or for the previous turn. Alternately, the most-recently-created 'wpaeNNN.pws' file (where NNN is between 010 & 190) will be an end-of-turn savegame file. There might be a Matrix/SAVE/autosave dir where these savegames are stored.

Another thing to do is add the ' -archive' switch to your startup-shortcut's command-line string, this will copy all daily ops/sigint/combat text-files to a Matrix/SAVE/archive dir.

Good news and bad news

I found wpae005 file which is my last saved file.

When it crashed it took out all my "Performance Settings" Now it lags like mad.

I tried to put in the "deepColor -altFont -px1920 -py1080 -cpu2 -SingleCpuOrders -dd_sw" switches but obviously I'm doing something wrong as it tells me my path is not valid.

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Good news and bad news

I found wpae005 file which is my last saved file.

When it crashed it took out all my "Performance Settings" Now it lags like mad.

I tried to put in the "deepColor -altFont -px1920 -py1080 -cpu2 -SingleCpuOrders -dd_sw" switches but obviously I'm doing something wrong as it tells me my path is not valid.

Look at the .exe file that the shortcut points to. If it says "Autorun.exe" that is the one that starts up the overall menu with the Game, Manual and Editor options. The performance switches will not work there. You have to get the path to the "War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" game program file. Note the lack of the 's after Admiral - this differs from the subdirectory name which has the 's.
Make sure the entire path to the game file is shown and that the entire path is enclosed in " " marks, then put a space and your switches after the end quote mark.

Thanks. That definitely helped.

But now I'm fighting the lag monster.

I've tried cpu1.
I've tried cpu2
I've tried no cpu switch.
I've tried Single CpuOrders with cpu1.
I've tried Single CpuOrders with cpu2.
I've tried Single CpuOrders with no cpu# switch.
I've tried Single CpuStart with cpu1.
I've tried Single CpuStart with cpu2.
I've tried Single CpuStart with no cpu# switch.
I've tried no Single CpuOrders or Single CpuStart switches.

All this on the shortcut target.

No joy. Lag-a-rama. Everything else works A-OK.

I've read the readme and the forum discussions.

Anybody got any ideas?

I have also tried using and not using the -dd_sw switch.

I don't think there should be a space in SingleCpuOrders ?

Also check your scroll delay setting in the Preferences menu (top of screen, about the second button from the left). You need to save the turn you are on after changing anything in the preferences or the change will be scrubbed when you exit the map screen.

Well I know nothing about Win10, but used to know a bit about WinNT. The usual suspects:
0) I would reboot after making a cmd-line change.
1) Defrag pagefile.sys, defrag the drive that contains your Matrix dir.
2) Use taskmgr to examine your %age of pagefile & RAM use. Identify apps & non-essential processes that can be closed or disabled during game-play.
3) If you're running Java 3rd-party WitP apps like Tracker or combatreport, make sure they are allocated enough RAM (but not too much) in their startup command-lines. Increase Combat Reporter's Monitor Interval to 6k or 10k seconds. Java apps are mem-hogs, they don't release unused RAM.
4) I run WitP, Tracker & Combat Reporter simultaneously, this pushes to the upper limit of its capacity. I've learned to live w/ some lag, but last month the lag became unbearable. I had to move my archived savegames & txtfiles to another dir, to reduce RAM use by Tr & CR. My sys still gets slow, this is especially annoying when it happens during a turn play. My solution is to alt-esc out of WitP, close Tr & CR, then get back into WitP. When the (2-day) turn ends, I save the game, then close WitP & reboot.

Running out of ideas.

Are you sure you set up loading string correctly so that it actually catches the switches? Try alternate fullscreen and windowed start, or movie/no movie.
deepColor and dd_sw are the usual helpers against lags, seen it a lot here in techsupport

Here's my current setup:

NVIDIA GTX 780
Intel Core 2 i7 950 @ 3.07 GHz 3.07 GHz
Installed RAM 6.00 GB
64 bit operating system, x64 based processor
Windows 10 (previously Windows 7)
All drive defragged

WitPAE Shortcut target line:
"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -deepColor -altFont -px1920 -py1080 -SingleCpuOrders -dd_sw -multiaudio

Note: All hyphens set from keyboard. One space bet3ween switches.

Compatibility set for Windows 7

On the tech forum Bill Olson mentioned that sometimes when you do not specify which CPU, too many things default to CPU1. Try putting in CPU 2 as the one for the game to use. I forget the switch's exact format but it should be easy to find.

Tried it. No joy.

Your plaints don't really give any helpful diagnostic info, I would guess mebbe a faulty re-install or a 32/64 prob. Have you been in touch w/ Matrix help?

Good news! I got my game (sorta) fixed). Turning off hex side effects got the scrolling right although the game barely answers the buttons. A turn only takes me twice as long now.

Maybe I can get some turns in and start posting again.

At least now you can copy your save externally so when/if you get a working setup you can resume the game under completely normal operating conditions.

Good news walking is better than laying flat on the mat.

Glad you're back, Tc.