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Hi all,

The game seems to take ages to start up, and almost hangs when loading a scenario. Generating a scenario took ages. Any ideas? Is this just me or is anyone else experiencing this?


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System Information
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Operating System: Windows 10 Home Single Language 64-bit (10.0, Build 18362) (18362.19h1_release.190318-1202)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model: GL552VX
BIOS: GL552VX.204 (type: UEFI)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 24576MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 24472MB RAM
Page File: 6982MB used, 19025MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 144 DPI (150 percent)
System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Enabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.1.5
DxDiag Version: 10.00.18362.0387 64bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Display Tab 2: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

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Best regards,
Ashcloud

If/when this happens, launch Task Manager to see what process(es) is (are) bogging the system down. Usually it is anti-malware software kicking into high gear, but often it is some Windows service gone temporarily haywire.

Ok, thanks - I will try that and report back.

For instance, on one of my CS auto-test systems, for some reason the Windows Antimalware Service Executable has gone bonkers, driving CPU usage up to near 100%.

In other instances, especially if a system has been down, shut off for a time, Windows will "phone home" to Microsoft for this or that obscure purpose, driving disk usage to a persistent 100%.

Occasionally it is some other non-Windows culprit, like your anti-virus software typically. Beware also of having your browser open with too many tabs, one or more of which may be hogging CPU due to some buggy JavaScript or something.

And so on and so forth.

Windows is a multi-taking OS, with dozens and dozens of background services. You never know when things will go crazy on you.

Usually but not always, a system reboot will solve issues such as these.

It seems you were right, something seems to have clicked into place and it is running much faster now. Thanks for the response.

I do have a last question, I also still have the original Divided Ground Middle East and am desperate to find a way to play the game without having the CD in the drive (the CD is having reading trouble and is very temperamental). Is there any way I an get something from you guys that will turn off the need for the CD in the drive. I want to say that I almost bought the new version just so that I could legitimize my request for this to be solved on the old version. I have included a photo of my original CD. I had a hard drive failure and lost almost all my games and serial numbers, and I had most of my CD's lost and am trying to rebuild my former collection.

Sorry, I myself can't help you with that Divided Ground issue.

Who can help me? Any contacts at Matrix in the CS camp that you know that might be able to help me complete my collection? I have pretty much every game and every mod for the Campaign Series and will get the Vietnam one as soon as I can but my collection will not be complete without being able to play Divided Ground without that temperamental CD. Damn. I need a Rich Hamilton type guy to step in and make it happen. Anyone?

Hi Ash,

Maybe check with Mike Amos (Warhorse). Send him a PM or e-mail. Mike has all kinds of cool stuff from years gone by. Perhaps he has the old Divided Ground that doesn't need the CD to run.

I remember there was a Divided Ground one could run that didn't need the CD. So that would eliminate your temperamental drive issue. I have the old Divided Ground Vietnam that doesn't need a CD to run. If Mike has the regular Divided Ground, it would be a pretty big file but could easily be transferred by Drop Box.

I have the old Divided Ground on my super old Windows 98 machine but it needs the CD so I'm no help, sorry. When Campaign Series Middle East came out I never went back to the old Divided Ground.

Good Luck and cheers!

John (aka Big Ivan at the blitz too). [;)]

Thanks John, I will contact Mike asap.

Still having this slow running thing, I had a look at the processes and it seem it may be windows defender antimalware service executable - so ok now what? How do I make it stop or greenlight ME?

This is frustrating, slow to start - sometimes not responding for minutes before starting up. Even the explosion animations are slow and disjointed looking. I really need some help with this, everything else runs smoothly. I would love to see some gameplay video so I can judge how it runs for others. I have huge enthusiasm for this game and the series as a whole but this is dampening my excitement and enjoyment of the game.

I re-installed CS Middle East 2.0 again to another drive, one which I had not told my anti-virus program (I am using Defender that comes with Windows 10) to ignore.

As CS games load a ton of images, things were really slow, especially the game load times. I then had Defender to not scan the game folder, and everything runs really smoothly for that install now.

Which anti-virus program are you using? Maybe something like this would help, unless you've done this already.

Thank you so much, I will try and setup the exclusion.

Ok, so excluding the folder from windows defender seems to have done the trick - took me a little while to figure out how to do it but plays lovely now. Super happy, thank you to all who responded and tried to help.

Glad to hear that, Ash! [:)]