Game grows all sluggish on me after playing for a while - cursor starts to stutter when moving across the screen. Still playable, but annoying. A fix in the next patch would be very welcome!
Mvh. GulGnu
Mvh. GulGnu
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Yes I have the same, and I think in stating a memory leak as the cause, you have reached the correct conclusion. As the game box states 64 MB minimum, meaning that this indeed the bare minimum, I'm suprised it runs as well as it does.
A tip worth trying. When the curser starts jumping around erratically, simply save and exit the game to windows. This takes a long time due to a massive amount of hard drive spinning (due again to excessive use of virtual memory) but is worth it as the game then speeds up massively, becoming playable again.
As the game progresses though (after the first 200 years), you will find an exit to desktop is increasingly necessary.
Solution. Spent £18 on an extra 64MB ram. I'm currently waiting for mine before progressing further in my game.
Storm.
Just save and reboot ur PC.
Or as Balders said, get new RAM. Makes quite a difference.
Or as Balders said, get new RAM. Makes quite a difference.
Though I can't help thinking it's either down to lazy programming (sorry Paradox - I realise you have worked you socks off on this game) or down to un-necessary eye-candy, ie all these animations.
There simply is no reason why anything (short of the NHS computer files or similar) should require so much memory.
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 16k ram (that is Kilobytes - not MB). That never had memory leads, nor was it ever short of memory.
Yes I know memory is cheap to buy. Yes I know games are more advanced and nicer to look at now.
But I just can't help thinking that when I bought this PC 3 years ago, that I would never need anything more powerful, or would need any more than 64MB RAM, which then seemed an astronomical amount.
I sometimes wish I could go back to more unsophisticated times. I know people used to complain about their Abacus's and Sundials, but at least they worked all the time, didn't have memory leaks, and you didn't need to have to upgrade them every 18 months.
Storm.
You might like to try Cacheman a free download from www.outertech.com
I used it when my memory was a little short and playing Birth of the Federation. It helped a lot.
I used it when my memory was a little short and playing Birth of the Federation. It helped a lot.
Hey Ugly! (LOVE that short hand!)
That's a great interim solution for those waiting for more mem. Good on ya! I use this on my oldest machine and it works wonders. To be honest though, nothing beats simply blasting the mem problems senseless with a preponderance of RAM. Currently prefer using the two machines with 128 and 256 respectively.
That's a great interim solution for those waiting for more mem. Good on ya! I use this on my oldest machine and it works wonders. To be honest though, nothing beats simply blasting the mem problems senseless with a preponderance of RAM. Currently prefer using the two machines with 128 and 256 respectively.
Yep - I used it on my p200 with 32 ram. It worked a treat for games like BOTF and Cutthroats.
I now have (1 week old!) a 800mhz and 128 Ram so I dont use it anymore.
Ugly is fine - say what you see!
I now have (1 week old!) a 800mhz and 128 Ram so I dont use it anymore.
Ugly is fine - say what you see!
Thanks for the tip Ugly. I did go to the site and check it out, but I must say I am very fussy about what I let onto my hard-drive. I decided to wait for my extra 64MB Ram arrive, which it did so today.
Wow, and what a difference 128MB makes. It feels like a whole new PC and EU.
And for only £23 from Crucial. I nearly fell off my chair when I found how cheap memory had become.
Storm.
The good thing about Cacheman is it lets you recover lost memory, lets you know how how much memory you have free, and lets you create all kinds of caches for your stuff. I use it on every machine I use/build, regardles of how much memory it has. I'm talkin RAM amounts ranging from 128-512 megs here. Use the wizards to set up your configs, and make adjustments from there if you feel the need. Been using it for several months now, and it's never caused me problems.
It's not a cure-all, though. The mem-recovery is good, but not infallible, but it handles almost everything I toss at it rather well. I used one other RAM recovery tool, and it crashed the system now and then, and was not quite as effective. But I got no gripes against Cacheman.
You would never set your virtual memory to 0, even if you had 512 megs of RAM, because Windows just plain needs to have one. This little tool will allow you to turn it off in a more friendly manner, but it's not that easy to cure Windows of its foibles, so don't be surprised if that particular function doesn't do you right.
Hope I've been some help.
It's not a cure-all, though. The mem-recovery is good, but not infallible, but it handles almost everything I toss at it rather well. I used one other RAM recovery tool, and it crashed the system now and then, and was not quite as effective. But I got no gripes against Cacheman.
You would never set your virtual memory to 0, even if you had 512 megs of RAM, because Windows just plain needs to have one. This little tool will allow you to turn it off in a more friendly manner, but it's not that easy to cure Windows of its foibles, so don't be surprised if that particular function doesn't do you right.
Hope I've been some help.