AU402 - Gargantua

[nbarclay]

Have you checked the performance tab on the task manager (or whatever XP has analogous to that) to see how much memory is being used? Right now, I'm using over a gig of RAM (with 1.5 gigs in the system), but that's because I have Civ 3, a picture editor for my DARs, and several other things loaded at once.

[alva]

Currently the Civ.exe is using 224MB.
I still have over 300 MB free (don't too many things open )
( I don't have a paging system btw, VM is set to zero)

[vmxa1]

I left on battle animation, show moves for all. Show all of my moves. I am not sure if any of these would matter.
With 22 civs still and late 1700's turns run close to 3 minutes and once in awhile out to 6 minutes (including responding to pop ups). I am measuring from end of turn till I have full control again, not just when it comes back to the builds of cities.

[Arrian]

What I have needs a new term to describe it: LUP, for Local Ultimate Power. Elsewhere in the world, there's another civ that's about as big and nasty as I am - just a little less technologically advanced (well, maybe more than a little now that I got ToE), but about even with me in GNP and stronger militarily even at the height of my military power. But none of my more immediate neighbors are/were within shouting distance, so I had a choice of targets when I was ready to, shall we say, enlarge my borders.

You are, in essence, a "Great Power" but not a "Superpower." You have the ability to crush smaller, weaker civs almost at will, but there are other civs out there somewhere that are near your strength (but, being the AI, don't really have a clue as to how to use it). 110+ Cavalry backed by Infantry can do a ton of damage, even to some of those stronger civs (though I wouldn't mess with the Ottomans just yet... ).

-Arrian

[Theseus]

I'm on a P-3 500 with 256 RAM...currently at 490AD, and turns are processing at about 3 min, with 1) all extra programs off and 2) all in-game slowdowns turned off. It's OK, I just do 'poly while the turns are going.

Arrian, you should go for it... it's a very engaging game.

Re power, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm pissed off about how many suicide galleys I've lost, but I am waaaay beyond the first two AI civs met, and will be surprise if the others are challenging.

[alva]

I'm pissed off about how many suicide galleys I've lost

I stopped counting at around 10

Spoiler tags are just in case, so if you havn't started yet and want to know as little as possible..

Spoiler:

The best one went three full turns.......seeing nothing but the ocean before dropping of at the edge of the world.
I do have contact with around 14 or 15. I have tech parerity (sp?), still lacking in points (and other aspects) but am catching up.

So far it has been a very peacefull builder game.

[Theseus]

The spoiler tag thing is COOL... I was struggling with that myself.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Yeah, way to go Alva with the invisible ink!

[vmxa1]

alva would you care to expalin that very slick trick to a forum challenge reader (me).
I suppose if I turn on the code thing in my browser I can see what tags you are using?

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by Arrian

You are, in essence, a "Great Power" but not a "Superpower." You have the ability to crush smaller, weaker civs almost at will, but there are other civs out there somewhere that are near your strength (but, being the AI, don't really have a clue as to how to use it). 110+ Cavalry backed by Infantry can do a ton of damage, even to some of those stronger civs (though I wouldn't mess with the Ottomans just yet... ).

I view it as a case of two superpowers, both of which are far bigger and more productive than anyone else. There are other civs (albeit not many) that are staying fairly close in tech, but they aren't in our league overall.

Now that I look at the situation more closely, this game probably does have some serious UP potential if the civs on the two biggest continents stay at peace or especially if they fight relatively inconclusive wars (and if the player gets the Great Lighthouse; I don't view mentioning the importance of that as ever being a spoiler on a 'pelago map ). But when a genuine, serious killer AI shows up, the situation is rather different.

Nathan

[alva]

alva would you care to expalin that very slick trick to a forum challenge reader (me).
I suppose if I turn on the code thing in my browser I can see what tags you are using?

[spoiler] blahblahblah [/_spoiler] (no underscore)

that's it.

[Panzer32]

Spoiler:

like this?? ;-)

[Jawa Jocky]

Originally posted by nbarclay
Have you checked the performance tab on the task manager (or whatever XP has analogous to that) to see how much memory is being used? Right now, I'm using over a gig of RAM (with 1.5 gigs in the system), but that's because I have Civ 3, a picture editor for my DARs, and several other things loaded at once.

I'm only using 238MB between turns at 250AD. I loaded some other (smaller) games and noticed they used less RAM. What year are you at using an entire gig?

One thing all my game had in common was CPU utilization. All the games pegged the CPU to about 98% and the biggers games just took longer.

Could someone send me a 3Ghz P4 so I can test this a little more?

[UnOrthOdOx]

Well, Im a little tardy in starting, but Ill DL this tonight and have a look. If only so I can stop avoiding all the DAR threads.

Oh, this might get painfull after medieval, though...hopefully my new comp will be able to handle all those movements.

[nbarclay]

When I talk about using a gigabyte plus, the majority of that is other programs. Civ 3 was somewhere in the 330's of megs if I recall correctly. Microsoft Photo Editor (from the Office 2000 suite) was using 370+, and smaller stuff including Internet Explorer and Outlook Express added up to the rest. I'm pretty sure I was somewhere in the early to middle industrial era (probably 1400's or 1500's) when I checked.