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I don't know about you... but in HoI, after a good few years it starts to lag. Usually its when a country gets too big... I don't know why it lags... I don't know how it lags... but it does.
Will HoI2 be the same??
 

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J.J.E. said:
Are your computer specs below average? HoI ran fine on my computer all the time, if a game lags it is mostly due to the computer being too old.


Rofl... no my computer is nowhere near old... and it beats the specs by... a million?
 
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maybe there are too many things running in the background
 

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Only time I suffer lag in HoI is when I either load a leaders list or when a particularly complicated event fires (like the Creation of Russia or Bitter Peace for example). Otherwise, I think that achieving lag when playing HoI is a pretty spectacular feat. Congratulations! :p

Seriously though, any game (except for perhaps Solitaire :rolleyes: ) is bound to lag if you have either a lot of programs running in the background, a demanding anti-virus program or both.
 
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Blitzkreig said:
Only time I suffer lag in HoI is when I either load a leaders list
ditto
 

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I have no idea why.... my computer never lags on... well games like Joint Operations, Doom 3 etc... where they are a lot more demanding... a lot.

It just starts to 'jig' when it gets late into the game... a few others have mentioned it...
 
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I think it's just a paradox thing - I had lag when running things in the background with viccy, but other, more demanding, games could handle it
 

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I've noticed small lag too whenever ww2 starts and Russia has 500+ divisions. Maybe the AI needs more time to think or something?
 

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It could be the XP thing...

But it is usually when the AI's country gets too big (Ie. Stalin sues for peace... No Vichy France...) and 500+ devisions...
 

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Well in XP after i play for around five years it starts to lag(no i don't have fow off)however if you save exit and restart it works just fine but then in 4 years it lags again do the same manouver again and the game works fine again for 4 years and so on.As for my PC it's an athlon 1700+XP 256 ram and geforce3ti so i doubt it's the problem. As i said it worked excelent in win 98.So unless it's XP i don't have any ideea.
 

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Sultan Of Swing said:
do you have fog of war off?


No.. I keep it off.

And re-loading the game doesn't work, for me at least.
 
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Hardstuff said:
No.. I keep it off.

And re-loading the game doesn't work, for me at least.
have you tried with it on?