How fast are your games Megathread (was : Speed test)

[unmerged(146832)]

Rules:

1. Load up the demo
2. Pick England
3. Play on max speed until October 1. 00:00
4. Post your time



time passed until October 1: 10 minutes 15 seconds

 

[unmerged(100714)]

wow, over 10 minutes 'til October? I'm starting to get why people complain about it being slow.
I ran as germany first (didn't read your instructions properly) - 3 minutes 3 seconds.
Then I did three runs as England timing in at 2 minutes 49 seconds, 2 minutes 54 seconds and 3 minutes 10 seconds.

 

[unmerged(102773)]

3minutes and 7 seconds
I am using PhenomII x2 550@3.1Ghz
with 4G Ram and ATI HD4850

 

[unmerged(145831)]

4 minutes 27 seconds
2.4 Ghz duo processor
4Gb ram

 

[Zebulba]

amd phenom 9600 quad core 2.3ghz
4gb ddr2 ram 800mhz
geforce 8800gt 512mb

first test 06:15
2nd 05:43

used task manager and only allowed hoi3 to use 1 core and noticed a slight improvement

first test 05:07
2nd 04:59


seems like hoi3 can't handle multi core processors so well

 

[SnakeByte99]

seems like hoi3 can't handle multi core processors so well

Interesting. Going to test this for myself!

 

[unmerged(100714)]

seems like hoi3 can't handle multi core processors so well

Hm.. the load on my AMD Phenom II 940 is spead quite evenly (all at 15-25%) over the four cores when I play the demo, so it sure seems to handle it over here.

 

[Joe32320]

Rules:

1. Load up the demo
2. Pick England
3. Play on max speed until October 1. 00:00
4. Post your time



time passed until October 1: 10 minutes 15 seconds

I got a similar time of 10 minutes 36 seconds

 

[unmerged(145650)]

2min 20sec

 

[unmerged(131628)]

Rules:

1. Load up the demo
2. Pick England
3. Play on max speed until October 1. 00:00
4. Post your time



time passed until October 1: 10 minutes 15 seconds

2 minutes and 15 seconds

Windows 7 64bit
Q6600 @3Ghz
HD4870 512MB
8GB RAM
SSD OCZ Vertex

 

[ShoGuL]

I deleted the Demo, but using the Blitzkrieg scenario in the retail game with patch 1.1:

Loaded up as England
Max speed, terrain view
Time until October 1. 00:00:

2 minutes 2 seconds

Intel Core i7 920 (3.6 ghz)
Geforce GTX 280
6 gb DDR3 high speed corsair ram

 

[Krediax]

First try 3:19
second try 3:30

Duo CPU 2,66 GHZ

my problem is HOI only uses 2-5% of my CPU, do you guys know if theres a way to make it use more of the CPU to make it run faster?

 

[unddu]

Well it might be a tad more useful if people add a complete overview of their used hardware/OS/Drivers

DxDiag is your friend!

 

[unmerged(146832)]

Well it might be a tad more useful if people add a complete overview of their used hardware/OS/Drivers

DxDiag is your friend!

Well yes and no. The most important thing would be to post if you could achieve a better time by doing something differently. For example using only 1 core gave better performance to some people by a lot.

 

[unmerged(131628)]

well it might be a tad more useful if people add a complete overview of their used hardware/os/drivers

dxdiag is your friend!

qft

 

[GAGA Extrem]

I also suspect it is a multi core issue, maybe harsher on some hardware than other. I have noticed a lot of Intel Dual and some Quad core users having massive problems, same for - and a test run on another AMD dual core machine showed how pathetic my speed really is - ~3 min vs ~9 for me...

 

[unmerged(100714)]

Well yes and no. The most important thing would be to post if you could achieve a better time by doing something differently. For example using only 1 core gave better performance to some people by a lot.

Removing multi-sample and trees reduced my times with about 15 seconds. Other than that I'm not sure what I should be changing to improve.

Might aswell try the core-thingy while I wait for D2D to wake up.

 

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2 min 15 sec

vista 64
e8400 @ 3.6ghz
8800gt
4gb ram

 

[unmerged(100714)]

Ok, setting the affinity to only one core increased my time to 3:32, so that's a good 40 seconds slower than with all 4 cores. That one core also worked at 100% constantly.

 

[unmerged(149151)]

1min .24secs

core i7 920 2.66ghz
6gb of ram
2 gtx 260
2 raptor hd