Combat extremely slow (31 minute for a battle)

[pesec]

Good afternoon.

I have purchased the game yesterday on Gamersgate, installed, patched to 1.02 and tried to play a 1756 scenario as Austria today. The game itself runs smoothly, AI calculates its turn in seconds and it takes a few tens of seconds to complete a move (provided no combat occurs).

However, for some reason combat is very, very slow. Here is a screenshot of a battle I just had:



That battle was 4 rounds long and took 31 minute to process (I actually timed it). It was going slowly and the provice was very slowly flashing red, so it wasn't stopped at one point for 30 minutes and then played out in 1 - it was slow all along. After battle ended, the turn finished just fine and there was no error shown.

My computer is Gateway laptop.
CPU is Intel Core duo P8400 2.26 GHz, 2.27 GHz
Memory is 4 GB
GPU is NVIDIA 9800m GTS (new drivers installed today, runs fallout 3 with no problem)
OS is 64-bit windows Vista

With battles being that slow, the game is essentially unplayable. I could not find anyone with a similar problem though. If anyone has an idea what causes the problem and how to fix it please respond.

Thank you!

[PhilThib]

Can you post here the saves and logs, so we can check what happened. Thnks

[Carnium]

You could set the battle animation under options to "masked" and try again

[Generalisimo]

I see you have the editor mode active, so, the constant writing to the disk of the log files could be slowing all the battle process.
It is weird for the specs of your PC, but it could happen sometimes... maybe Vista also helps with that? (to make the matter worse )
Check your general.opt file for the logbatch setting, increase its value and check again please.
Also, try again without the editor mode active to see if the resolution is faster.

By the way, where have you installed the game? not in the Program Files directory? right?

[pesec]

Thanks for help, the problem is fixed now. The problem was with logbatch. Now in a bit more detail:

Can you post here the saves and logs, so we can check what happened. Thnks

The problem occured in every single scenario.

You could set the battle animation under options to "masked" and try again

Battle animations were already masked.

I see you have the editor mode active, so, the constant writing to the disk of the log files could be slowing all the battle process.

Editor mode did not seem to affect much.

It is weird for the specs of your PC, but it could happen sometimes... maybe Vista also helps with that? (to make the matter worse )

Stuck with vista and too cheap to get windows 7

Check your general.opt file for the logbatch setting, increase its value and check again please.

That solved it: it was set to 10 despite the file saying "Can slow down significatively the app & hosting if below 10". Changed it to 500 and now works fine!

By the way, where have you installed the game? not in the Program Files directory? right?

Actually it is in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rise of Prussia\

Does having the game in Program Files cause problems?

Once again, thanks!

[Gray_Lensman]

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[Generalisimo]

Good news then.

About this:

Actually it is in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rise of Prussia\

Does having the game in Program Files cause problems?

Once again, thanks!

In Vista and W7, the Program Files directory is "protected" under the UAC.
So, installing the game in there could create a lot of problems if you are not logged in as an administrator user... sometimes, even if you disable the tedious UAC too.
So, to completelly avoid the problems on these OS, it is highly recommended to install the game on another location, for example:
C:\Games\...
... or something like that.

[Pocus]

Just to point out that if the battles run slowly even with a logbatch of 10, then either your hard disk is very fragmented / old or the operating system is monitoring any writing and slow all the process to a crawl.