Slow Down

[unmerged(25324)]

A game I have been playing of EU II has recently slowed down to a crawl, it feels like it is lagging despite the fact that I am playing on the fastest speed. I am not using any modifications and I have the latest version of the beta 1.08 patch installed. Any other game of EU II I try to play is perfectly fine; it is just this particular game. There does not seem to a huge number of troops walking around and there are not any major wars going on at the moment. What could be the problem?

 

[Castellon]

If you turn your computer on, the start EU2, then load your game, is it slow right away or does it get slower the more time you play?

 

[unmerged(17563)]

I've seen this before, was a mulitplayer save I got from the host, for me in SP it was unplayable cos of lag but when it was played in MP it was fine. I never did work out why it slowed down so much...

 

[unmerged(25324)]

It starts off going at about what I would consider to be a 10th of what I consider to be normal speed (at extremely fast), and then in about a month of game time it slows to maybe a 20th.

 

[Castellon]

If you start a new game does it eventually slow down as well?
Have you played EU2 before when this did not happen?

 

[AndrewT]

What CPU, how much memory, and what OS/SP are installed? Have you defragged recently?

 

[unmerged(25324)]

I have never had this happen before, I can start up a new game, I can load old save files from a different game with absolutely no problems.

AMD Athlon XP +2700 (2.1 GHZ)
512 ram
ATI 9800 PRO (128 mb) [Not that it should matter for this game]
Windows XP

I actually tried defragging yesterday, not that I thought it would make any difference, as the only problem is this save file.

Perhaps I'll go back through the save files and I see if I can pinpoint the problem. But it has been a steady slow down, so it might be hard to see where it starts.

The save file itself doesn't look odd when I open it up; it is an average size of about 3 megs.

 

[unmerged(17563)]

Its something that goes wrong with the save file I reckon, the one I am talking about was slow for about 5 people not just me. It was strange cos that week nobody could use the save in SP at all...cept for the host that is.

Could it be duplication of information that just makes an incredibly large file causing it to slow down like CK does?

 

[Castellon]

Well was the file you are talking about abnormally large?

 

[unmerged(17563)]

Well was the file you are talking about abnormally large?

Yup I reckon it was about 11mb, I dont have the save anymore it was a while ago but definetly a 1.08 patch save.

 

[Owen]

I suspect that is a different problem Rebecca. I think I saw something like that from a different MP save, and it turned out that the save had lots of repetitions of the history log or something. I think that must be an MP-specific problem, but I could be wrong.

 

[unmerged(17563)]

I suspect that is a different problem Rebecca. I think I saw something like that from a different MP save, and it turned out that the save had lots of repetitions of the history log or something. I think that must be an MP-specific problem, but I could be wrong.

You is probably right

 

[Castellon]

What about you iNtRePiD, we know that save file isn't larger than normal.

What was happening before you noticed the slow down for the first time?

 

[Owen]

As above:

...The save file itself doesn't look odd when I open it up; it is an average size of about 3 megs.

 

[unmerged(25324)]

It seems to have started when Spain went over the badboy limit and took a beating from all the other nations. I can't be exactly sure though as it didn't slow down right after this event.

 

[Castellon]

Well I have never seen this before, your save must have been corupted somehow,