AI seems very slow

[st. dexter]

Anyone else experiencing slow (one minute more or less) gameplay between turns? I am running a P2/233 with 64 ram. I have Win ME, and my res is set to 800 X 600. I have next to nothing installed on my hard drive (4.3 gig with half free). I got about one hour into a medium level game, and the AI was taking forever to cycle. The game is a full install. When I tried the Alexander scenario, forget about it, it took forever to cycle through that (yeah I know that scenario says high end systems with 266mh but come on) It's frustrating to play like this! any suggestions?

[Dida]

your computer is way too slow man. and note that, Windows ME takes up a f***king lot of memory.

[eluttre]

I agree the game slows terribly. I hope it's just a mem leak or something geeky that can be resolved with a patch... This is going to be a major complaint area for Activision unless it can be fixed.

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[Atahualpa]

Its the CtP Engine I guess!
A P2 233 with Win ME is suicide on the other hand. Try getting Win95. It should be faster there.

I guess for halfway descent play you'll need at least a P2 400 with 128MB Ram.

ATa

[SeveB]

I would splash out for at least an extra 64 Mb RAM, either that, or bin WinME and put 95/98 on there.
I've got a P2/233 with 128Mb (running Win98), and I've ordered a new processor, as I noticed that several recent games (CM 00/01, Shogun) were taking a bit longer than I liked. My new P3 should arrive just as CTP2 hits Europe :-)

[Builder]

hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have p200 with 40 megs RAM!!!!!!!!!!!

will it work???????

[Solver]

Actually it is enough to play CTP. RTS, like AoE2 need more system than that, but I recommend you run either Windows 98 or Linux, not Windows ME or 2K. My first attempt to play CTP (just to feel what it is) was on P166 with 16 MB RAM, where the AI turns went for some 4-5 minutes! But I saw the game is very exciting and went to a real computer then.

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[Savant]

The AI portion of the game is very integer-intensive. The best processor out there to speed up that portion of the game is an AMD Athlon. There are great deals out there and I suggest you upgrade to an Athlon 750 or so that will run you about $95 on pricewatch,com and get a Abit motherboard so you can run it at 850 or higher.

Then get at least 128mb 133 SDRAM and a good AGP videocard with at least 16mb of SDRAM.

You will be rocking and the opponents just whiz through their planning!



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'Blood will run'

[MarkG]

you can lower the limits of time the AI has to complete his turns(from a text file, i dont recall which one tright now) and/or play with less civs

[Yoleus]

quote: Originally posted by Savant on 11-17-2000 09:27 AM ...AMD Athlon. There are great deals out there and I suggest you upgrade to an Athlon 750 or so that will run you about $95 on pricewatch

Isn't it a Duron? I think a Thunderbird Athlon is a little more pricey... By the way, isn' the configuration you soggest a bit of an overtkill?

[MidKnight Lament]

I just realised that my motherboard can only handle up to 2xAGP. I was going to buy a new 32MB card which are 4xAGP, but if I buy one I won't be using half it's power. And I really don't know that I can justify spending money on a new video card as well as a motherboard (and while I'm at it why not throw in a processor?)

Anyway, the upshot of it all is that I don't think I'll be running CTP2 until I move in with my brother mid-January, and even then we won't be able to play MP like I was hoping. What a let down! I'm feeling rather deflated right now. You guys appreciate what you've got!!!

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[John-SJ]

Undoubtably, slower computers with smaller memories (64Mb or less) will benefit greatly from a memory upgrade. For a game that requires lots of resources like CtP2 a large memory is as important (maybe more) important as a fast processor.

Short of that, there's still something you can do though. Use Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the "Close Program" dialog and close everything except "explorer" and "systray". If you have limited memory this will give CtP the maximum available to run with.

I would guess also that smaller worlds and/or fewer civs would help as well.

John-SJ

[MarkG]

to people with 64mb ram(or less): do yourself a favor and go to 128mb. not just for ctp2, for any use of windows....

[eluttre]

People, people I HAVE the "recommended" specs for the game 233 w/64mb of RAM. The turns are long and the game controls get sluggish and buggy with more units. Many, many bugs...

[Kyle]

Nope, T-birds are quite cheap. Check out www.windrivers.com for price comparisons.