Game not playable with only 64 mb ram

[phoover]

I got the game a couple of days ago and it is a great upgrade from EU1 (which is a great game).

I have a pentium II, 400MHZ, 64mb Ram Toshiba notepad. I have had no problems with crashes, bugs, etc. The game runs fine but is SLOW.

I put the 1.01 patch on, cleaned up my windows/temp directory, defraged my hard drive, turned music off, and shut down everything except explorer and systray. Started the game and it just crawls.

I really want to play the new game so I dealt with it. I played the game, then would play solitare (with a real deck of cards) while waiting for the game to proceed. I took showers, fixed dinner, played with the kids, put out Christmas decorations...

I get about one game year per hour of play (if I pay attention), otherwise its worse if the game pauses while I'm busy counting ceiling tiles.

I don't know what else to do, I got to 1433 (14 game years) as Scotland before I finally gave up.

I've seen the links on this problem in the forum and have followed the advice, what I would like to know is, has anyone got good results with only 64mb?

 

[viper37]

ram doesn't cost much, maybe you could upgrade to 128 or 256mb? It should cost you around 25$-35$ and it's worth it.

 

[Jos Theelen]

After a century, when many of those small countries are gone, the game is a lot faster, almost as fast as EU1.
But more memory is always good.

 

[viper37]

As Joe said, later scenarios are faster. the 1492 one is faster and the later ones should also be faster.

 

[unmerged(190)]

Had the same problem so I bought extra 256MB RAM ($37) to give me 320MB and EU2 runs fine (when it's not CTDing...but that's another prob). By the way, before I added the 256MB RAM the game ran, but in one 2 hour marathon the hard drive read/wrote CONTINUOUSLY. Invest in the extra RAM, you'll need it eventually and it's cheap, and you wont burn out the HD.

Rat Face