Cutting down on Chinese Irregulars

[Arado]

Hmm.

Well perhaps if you are having such a serious performance issue, add the cap mentioned earlier to building units for China (and the UK), but you probably want to beef up irregulars a bit then too.

What kind of system are you running?

1.6 Ghz, 1024 Mg SDRAM, 120Gb hard drive, with 30 Gb free, Win XP professional, 128 Mg Video card.

 

[Darkrenown]

Wow, thats totally helpful. Thanks. However, how do you open AI files?
Arado

You might want to read post 14 there...

Just open the AI files with notepad, but read post 14 first.

 

[swilhelm73]

Hmm, I've never had any problems - but my CPU is a tad faster. What are teh min specs for VIC?

 

[Arado]

You might want to read post 14 there...

Just open the AI files with notepad, but read post 14 first.

What happens when you do modify the -1 to 100? Why doesn't it work?

 

[Memnon]

Hmm, I've never had any problems - but my CPU is a tad faster. What are teh min specs for VIC?

Win 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium III 800 MHz
256 Mb RAM
600 Mb free hard drive space
8Mb video card DirectX compatible
DirectX compatible sound card
DirectX 9.0 or higher ( :rofl: wow, things move quick in the game world, eh?)

 

[swilhelm73]

Well, Arado is well above the min specs there then...

Maybe this thread should be moved to tech support? That far above the min you should never see choppiness...

 

[Arado]

Hmm, I've never had any problems - but my CPU is a tad faster. What are teh min specs for VIC?

I dont know off the top of my head, but my sys is way above it. I ran into the
same problem with HoI when the game had tons of units as well. The 1400 chinese infantry, not 400, FOURTEEN HUNDRED, bogged down my game. I think this is a problem in itself that the developers should look at. Also,
the AI file is set to make only 10% of the Chinese army irregular, but the AI makes the vast majority 95%+ irregular. The settings on that line may not be entirely hard coded, but only "guidelines." Ill reduce their tarriff efficiency and their desired army size, then I'll try another game.
Thanks for the help.
Arado

 

[swilhelm73]

I Also,
the AI file is set to make only 10% of the Chinese army irregular, but the AI makes the vast majority 95%+ irregular. The settings on that line may not be entirely hard coded, but only "guidelines." Ill reduce their tarriff efficiency and their desired army size, then I'll try another game.
Thanks for the help.
Arado

China only has tech to build irregulars at the start (and for some time afterwards when played by the AI) and they get irregulars as partisans.

 

[Arado]

The only problem is that it doesn't work. I prefer to nerf china's income like so:

tariff_eff = 0.1

in china's inc file.
That way china makes 400 in tariffs instead of 4000.
That's tweaked for the VIP economy though, a vanilla player might want to load up as china and see how it does.

Where is the "china's inc file?" Also, how do you extract your .rar files into the victoria files??

 

[jpd]

Win 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium III 800 MHz
256 Mb RAM
600 Mb free hard drive space
8Mb video card DirectX compatible
DirectX compatible sound card
DirectX 9.0 or higher ( :rofl: wow, things move quick in the game world, eh?)

Actually (although almost undoable ) those specs should have been differentiated. It makes a huge difference (memory wise) if you use Win98SE or WinXP. But in any rate, 512 MB is far more realistic.

As for DirectX 9. I assume that this comes from the Microsoft marketing division, as the game itself runs without a hitch in DirectX 8.1. I found that out more or less by accident when I fired up Vicky while I had booted into my Win98SE/DX8.1 combo. Need that one for playing older DirectX 7 games (like PG3 or Diablo II), as these don't even want to start under DirectX 9.

Jan Peter

 

[jpd]

Well, Arado is well above the min specs there then...

Maybe this thread should be moved to tech support? That far above the min you should never see choppiness...

That's definately not true. Check out the FAQ's in the tech support forum for details. Those are based on my own experiences with Vicky on my Athlon Xp1600+/512MB/GeForce 4 Ti4200/Audigy II system.

Jan Peter

 

[swilhelm73]

That's definately not true. Check out the FAQ's in the tech support forum for details. Those are based on my own experiences with Vicky on my Athlon Xp1600+/512MB/GeForce 4 Ti4200/Audigy II system.

Jan Peter

You'll note I did not say won't, but instead *should not*

 

[Darkrenown]

What happens when you do modify the -1 to 100? Why doesn't it work?

It just doesn't, the AI will happily keep building past whatever limit you set there.

 

[Darkrenown]

Where is the "china's inc file?" Also, how do you extract your .rar files into the victoria files??

Well I think you got the inc qustion answer in your other thread, but to extract a rar file you need WinRAR, which you can get free from download.com.

 

[Darkrenown]

Arado, you might want to look at this thread:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151166
to free up some more RAM and make Vic load a lot faster. The info in it is based off of JPD's faq.

 

[Memnon]

Arado, you might want to look at this thread:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151166
to free up some more RAM and make Vic load a lot faster. The info in it is based off of JPD's faq.

Of course, it makes the terrain map look all funky.

 

[Darkrenown]

I actually like it better, more EUIIish. Not that you'd know about that

 

[Arado]

Well I think you got the inc qustion answer in your other thread, but to extract a rar file you need WinRAR, which you can get free from download.com.

Yep, sure did. Thanks for the help.