Game drags and freezes temporarilly when I move units around

[Verntallat7]

This was an issue on TOAW III too, sad to see it again in TOAW IV, I couldn't find anyone else with this issue but it shoudln't be that uncommon, isn't it?? Basically moving units cause the game to freeze for a moment, as if it was charging a spring, then a few seconds later it would defreeze and show the units where they should be. Is there anything I can do to solve that issue?? The game doesn't crash, it just freezes for a moment when I'm moving units around

[hingram]

Open up Task Manager and watch your CPU and memory usage. See if CPU increases dramatically and make sure you aren't exceeding your RAM amount

[sPzAbt653]

This happens to me when doing a long distance rail movement of multiple units, but that is the only time I see it. I have a W7 machine from 2012.

[larryfulkerson]

You might try turning off everything running in the background. It sounds like
your CPU is getting saturated with work.

[sPzAbt653]

Does this show anything of use ? It's right after a multiple unit rail movement that travels across multiple screens. Of course, when I was trying it it wouldn't freeze up. I'll try and remember to pull up the TM each time I run a long rail to see if it will freeze for a screeny.

[hingram]

Use the Resource Monitor. If it freezes up, get a snapshot of the monitor afterwards. Make sure you drag the graph to the left a bit.

[sPzAbt653]

This one was about 5 seconds after a screen freeze [multiple unit rail movement across multiple screens].

[sPzAbt653]

So after I moved I hit the Resolve Combats, and while it was resolving I got this entire blank screen about 5 times, it only lasts a second or two. I've never seen this in all my born days, so I have to close that Resource thing because my machine doesn't like it.

[Lobster]

Yeah looks like the hard drive got maxed out for a short time twice. Virtual memory maybe? Otherwise it should just shunt stuff to memory if you had enough. Lots faster. I know how it is with old machines. My brain is old and running out of memory too. [;)]

[hingram]

You should not be going to virtual memory if you have 4 gig or more of RAM. You are only showing 2.3G of usage. But if you have a slow hard drive that needs to be defragged, that would definitely do it. It's waiting on those platters.

[sPzAbt653]

Defrag is set to run once a week here, so the drive doesn't need to be defragged at this time.