lag disappears after i restart?!

[unmerged(154607)]

hi guys,

fighting russia in 1941, after 30 mins of playing the battle comes to a slow grind.

i saved and restarted from where i left off last night and discover that the lag had totally disappeared

after 30 mins, started to lag again and i just quit and started again.

any idea whats causing the lag to go away?

 

[unmerged(141124)]

No idea, looks like even Paradox doesn't know unfortunately. Enable autosaving once in half year, then reload with each new autosave. This will keep your good speed.

 

[Inbrainsane]

Maybe memory fragmentation.

Also the unity effects from strat bombing are not updated regularly, so if you still get -2.0 from strat bombing while the british isles are in your hands, try to save and reload.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

The problem is an error related to the interface.

Avoid the production, tech and leader screens if possible.
If you have to go there, do only the minimum number of clicks necessary.

Each click inside these windows (esp. production) will slow the game down, up to a point were every click at the interface will result in a few second freeze. Esp. clicky things like moving troops along the production quenue are very, very bad for your game speed.

I am quite sure that this is your issue. You can easily test this by loading a scenario and do nothing but controlling your troops, there should be almost no lag at all, even if you play for hours.

 

[unmerged(162877)]

The problem is an error related to the interface.

Avoid the production, tech and leader screens if possible.
If you have to go there, do only the minimum number of clicks necessary.

Each click inside these windows (esp. production) will slow the game down, up to a point were every click at the interface will result in a few second freeze. Esp. clicky things like moving troops along the production quenue are very, very bad for your game speed.

I am quite sure that this is your issue. You can easily test this by loading a scenario and do nothing but controlling your troops, there should be almost no lag at all, even if you play for hours.

lol nice 1.2 :rofl:

 

[Spookyashell]

Memory leaks. When some functions are done, it doesn't release the memory adresses and you get less available memory the longer you play. Save and quit the game release these memory adresses. Thats why the lag is gone after restart, but it soon starts clogging up the memory again and a new restart is required.

1.2 is alot better than 1.1, so lets hope it gets totally fixed in 1.3

 

[Sarayakat]

hi guys,

fighting russia in 1941, after 30 mins of playing the battle comes to a slow grind.

i saved and restarted from where i left off last night and discover that the lag had totally disappeared

after 30 mins, started to lag again and i just quit and started again.

any idea whats causing the lag to go away?

There are some things you can do that I know of to lighten your load. As always: take my advice with caution unless you want to end up having to reinstall you game or suffer instability.

1 - Don't use your outliner (display info upper right side of main screen) It's usefull but it slows you down alot once combat starts.

2 - Find Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron III\gfx\pictures\portraits. Rename it to portraitsbak or something. Create a new portraits directory. Now copy over only empty_position.tga from the old to the new dir.. You will no longer have leader or general portraits but load times when swpping gens around decrease considerably.

3 - alt-tab into your windows task manager before you load your save and set HOI3.exe priority to high on the processes screen.

4 - Don't accept all those micro trades from pissant countries. I noticed that the more trades I had the slower my production screen became to load and Venezuala in particular will make lots of deals in my game while apparently lacking the resources to follow thru on ANY of them.

5 - Take notes and submit good bug reports to P'dox so they can fix things.


Good night and good luck.

 

[joeenochs]

How much memory do you have in your computer?

I have 2 GB and don't have these problems in 1.2. anymore.

 

[Wunderlicht]

I have 4GB and I can confirm the slowness occurring and then disappearing after restart. I can also confirm the freezing with prod, diplo, espi, tech screens. Though it seems to start for me only after battles start occurring. Peacetime speeds are fine for hours and hours.

Minor Inconvienience.