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I'm spending the summer at my oarents place and play my regular EU games on their crappy computer witch percisly meets the criteria to play the game....
Is there anything I can do to speed up the game except for the really obvious things like closing down other programs, freeing up memory etc...???
Any suggestion would make my world domination somewhat easier , thanks in advance...
Also, if you happen to run Windows 9.x, consider downloading the CacheBooster from www.analogx.com
With this program you can tweak the Windows memory manager to allocate less disk cache memory for it's internal use, thus making more RAM available for applications, including your beloved EU2.
Another trick you can use to speed up performance a bit (also applicable only to Windows 9.x) is to force a minumum swap file size. That way Windows will spend less precious CPU time in trying to keep the swap file as small as possible, and thus has more CPU time available for your program of choice.
In case you are using a Creative SoundBlaster soundcard with a PCI interface, try tweaking the memory set aside by the driver for wave table data. By default, this is rougly 3 times bigger than the default wave table file actually used. Reducing it from 12 MB to 4 MB saves another precious 8 MB of main RAM.
Another trick you can use to speed up performance a bit (also applicable only to Windows 9.x) is to force a minumum swap file size. That way Windows will spend less precious CPU time in trying to keep the swap file as small as possible, and thus has more CPU time available for your program of choice.
Originally posted by conmcb25 Can you explain how to do this? I have an old and slow laptop that runs EUII at an AGONIZINGLY slow pace and would like to try the above.
OK Guys Im REALLY old and very information age challenged. So please bear with me here. Im at the point in systems performance for virtual memory where I can manually force a minimum size. Any idea what size I should go for? I have 64K of ram on an old 361 Processor on my laptop. I have 1467 MG free on the hard drive. The minimum setting for default right now is 96.
It seems to have helped. It is slow still but not a "jerky" as it used to be. I think Im going to slow down the in game speed and just deal with the slowness.
, thanks in advance...
