Unit selection slowdown?

[mattpeckham]

Anyone else have the problem where you select a large stack and the game performance drops dramatically? Right-click (de-select) and it instantly returns to normal. Bug? Design issue? Something set in options that might remedy?

[Pocus]

There is much computing done when you select a stack, but this is should only be noticable if your system spec is average or below.

[mattpeckham]

2GB RAM + 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, so I don't think it's my hardware. And it's a *sustained* performance drop, meaning it continues for as long as the stack's selected, i.e. it doesn't get better after a few seconds.

[Pocus]

This also depends of the stack size.

[mattpeckham]

This also depends of the stack size.

Right, I understand what you're suggesting P, but what's it calculating after you've selected the stack? I'm talking about just clicking on a stack, not combat, not movement, not waiting for the computer to calculate the next turn -- just clicking on it. And as long as you're clicked on it, the game's performance seems to drop by 1/3 to 1/2 (based on Fraps, anyway).

[highpocrisy]

Happends here too, especially in the russian campaign.It's very annoying alongside all the bugs in NPC and AMCW, both of which I've gave up playing until they're patched...

[Pocus]

They are patched. AACW was patched perhaps 50 times, if you include the subversions.

For example the program recalculate each frame if you can attach a corps to an army, and which army. The solution to improve that would be to store the results, until the stack change that is. In the end its a question of priority on our task list.