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Two things:

1. The game occasionally crashes.

2. The game speed.
First, my computer meets all the requirements for EUII.

Second, the game speed seems to be determined by which scenario. In the Napoleonic scenario, the game speed is nearly equivalent, such as if set to 1 minute=1 month, it takes approx. 1 min. 20 sec.=1 month. However if you choose an early scenario, esp. the Grand Campaign, even when set to 1 minute=2 years it would take at least a half an hour to play the two years, if not more time, due to events which slow down the game ever the more. With this I am quite forced to play the Napoleonic scenario, despite the fact I would like to play the Grand Campaign, as the sheer time to play only a few years in the Grand Campaign would take many hours on end.

Third, occassionally the game skips days, as it gets 'bogged down' and suddenly jumps one day or even seven or eight days. This could especially be troubling in the game, as this could result in a strategic advantage lost.
 
My guess would be you're playing with minimum required RAM (IE: 64 megs). The recommended is 128 for a reason, RAM is everything for EU's performance. Ideally, you'd go spend $50 and buy 256 megs.
 
Originally posted by Grunthex
Ideally, you'd go spend $50 and buy 256 megs.
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Actually, with the "new" economy, I was able to get 256 meg chips for $20 (american) :D

The game speed is what the game tries to run at. Just as setting quake to run at 50 frames per second might work as planned in a small grey room with no objects, you could run in to problems when looking at a more complicated, 50,000 polygon room.

It is highly probable that the game is running faster in the scenarios you mentioned because it simply has less to do: less country AIs and budgets, etc... In this case, the napolean scenario is like the grey room above.
 
Agreed

I have 394 or so megs, and 500 mhz. The Grand Campaign runs like molasses. I played it for a grand total of 22 years. I think at 2 year a minute took me 10 hours or so to play. The funny thing is that the game's speed isn't the same every time, Every time I play it maybe one out of 6 times the game speed will be close to 1 minute 1 month starting from scratch, grand campaign.
I did find that when I cheated once, and used my mighty austrian empire and had her spread from frances border, to novograd to the north, to naples in the south, and to the east I had the entire Chin Empire with my Hapsburg flag that the game ran extremely fast especially with the chinese and the golden horde out of the way. Kept all those little countries from revolting which helped speed up the game.
The speed factor almost makes the game unplayable, at times I would rather play eu1, atleast I can play a GC in a couple of nights. To be honest that game that I played for 22 years, actually I did keep playing it for about a week, getting to 1528, but there was no thrill in the game, when you cheat.
Tim
 
>I have 394 or so megs

Are you talking about Ram or disk space here? If Ram, that should be plenty for fast performance. Do make sure you have disabled and anti-virus and other resident apps beforehand. You might also try uninstalling the game, deleting any unneccesary files on your drive, defragging it, then reinstalling.
 
Yeah, masterenki, there is no reason your computer should be running that slowly.

Press control-alt-delete (or go in to the taskmanager) and see what's running. I'm willing to bet there's a lot of crap there that you don't need, slowing things down quite a bit, possibly including some spyware.

There's a good utility out there (I forget the name) that will scan your system for you and remove all spyware that's running at the same time. If you know what you're doing you can run msconfig and manually disable some of the programs that you don't need.
 
Re: Agreed

Originally posted by masterenki
I have 394 or so megs, and 500 mhz. The Grand Campaign runs like molasses. I played it for a grand total of 22 years. I think at 2 year a minute took me 10 hours or so to play. The funny thing is that the game's speed isn't the same every time, Every time I play it maybe one out of 6 times the game speed will be close to 1 minute 1 month starting from scratch, grand campaign.
I did find that when I cheated once, and used my mighty austrian empire and had her spread from frances border, to novograd to the north, to naples in the south, and to the east I had the entire Chin Empire with my Hapsburg flag that the game ran extremely fast especially with the chinese and the golden horde out of the way. Kept all those little countries from revolting which helped speed up the game.
The speed factor almost makes the game unplayable, at times I would rather play eu1, atleast I can play a GC in a couple of nights. To be honest that game that I played for 22 years, actually I did keep playing it for about a week, getting to 1528, but there was no thrill in the game, when you cheat.
Tim
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Start menu, run, type "msconfig" go to startup, uncheck everything, click ok, reboot, start the game, see if it makes any differences.
 
hmm

I am talking about ram, I have a 40 gig hard drive, I tried it first on xp, then on windows 2000 and ME, all three operating systems I had a ram monitor on, my free memory never drops below 240 megs, and my page file or virtual memory file is always 60 to 90 percent free.
Everytime I run the game, I disable, everything from instant messenger programs, to antivirus programs, for me its control alt delete task manager
I end everything but crucial system files and it still runs very slow.
The fasted time I got from it was on xp.
My Cpu is only 500 mhz.
 
Hmmm...I'm playing with 128MB RAM, absolutely none of these problems. Runs GC as fast or slow as I want to play.

I would guess something else is causing your problem - maybe some other resident program, or maybe processor. I'm using a Pentium III 750 MHz - not sure if lower end processors (e.g. Celeron) might have problems getting all the calcs done in reasonable time.

Also, I think some computers/op systems are not as good clearing out RAM once a program no longer uses it. Are you rebooting before playing? Might help.
 
I also have Celeron 500mhz and 256 mg of ram but game behavior bad. grand campaign start good but later it slows down and even crash. first, I had 128 mg ram and it was almost unplayable but it became better with 256. in the end the only reason why my game is slow is the processor.
 
One chap reported going from 256 to 384 mb of ram helped his game speed noticeably; YMMV of course but it's worth a thought. I suspect EU2 can use pretty much all the ram you can throw at it.
 
there should be improvements to the engine in a not so distant future (I don't think it will be in 1.03) but in the meantime, try playing the later scenarions (the 1492 one for example).
 
I'm really down

I spent mega hours modifying a scenario, and it dumps to desktop every time. And it's not the same time every time, no event that's running, no leader id conflicts evident. But between 8-20 years into it, poof.
 
Originally posted by viper37
there should be improvements to the engine in a not so distant future (I don't think it will be in 1.03) but in the meantime, try playing the later scenarions (the 1492 one for example).
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So the speed-problems is not only caused by the AI's heavy workload? If that's correct then it sure is good news for me and my trusty old computer.
But I still hope that Paradox (or Visionpark or whoever is responsible) doesn't wait for this to be fixed until they release the game in Sweden. I don't have the patience....

*continues with my abitious project to reprogram EU to EU2, despite my complete lack of programming-experience, while waiting for the real thing to arrive
 
Good to hear! There are substantial memory and CPU optimisations done in 1.03, glad they helped you.
 
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