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Two new questions that beg an answer from one of you gurus in this forum:

1. The victory points table and diagram are 0 for all nations after 15 years of play, even though there has been VP gains made according to the pop-up screens. Why?

2. The game grinds down to an extreme slow after playing for an hour or so. This is appearent for example when looking at the animated figures, the blacksmith starts to jerk like a puppet instead of hammering smoothly. Hardware or software related?



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Terran incognito
 
As to your first question, make sure you set VP 'on' in the options before starting.

Second one, I don't know, sometimes happens on my PC for just half a second or so when a lot of diskwriting occurs, but after that I've got no probs. Maybe your PC is low on internal memory? Try closing down as many other (resident) programs as you can.

greetings, Oranje

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Albert Einstein
 
Memory management issues seem to slow the game down after a few hours play. It might be a fault with the Windows system though.

A RAM upgrade to at least 128 MB helps a lot.

Regards,

EoE
 
96MB works just fine here, 64 however is a bit on the low side.
Nagy ... Hungarian ?

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64 meg of RAM is quite fine, I've had that in my PC for 12+ months and beta tested EU on it, play other games. In regards to EU its actually quite fine, just make sure to keep your hard drive in good order.


Sapura
 
Oranje: You are my rock!

Item 1: OK- that is it, thank you!

Item 2: Memory already at 128 MB. Disabled findfast, McAffee and now it runs smoothly.

Stefan H: Igen, jo napot! 50/50 Swede-hungarian

Thanks again everybody. (c:



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Terran incognito
 
Igen, jo napot! 50/50 Swede-hungarian

Kössz viszont.

Svédben születem, de Magyar anyám apám.
Remélem ez olvasható, ritkán irok magyarúl (hol egy szótar mikor haszna vann).
Mindenképen, négy únnokatesómnak is Nagy a neve =)

Well, better switch back to English before I get stripped of my 'stars' =).

64 meg of RAM is quite fine,
Have that in my other comp, shure feels a tad sluggish to my main comp, but it might ofcourse have something to do with playing in multiplayer.

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Hello Huszics,

Maybe you'd better change that warning into:
donot try to view this site if you haven't got either Mozilla or Opera.
I gave up trying to load it, didn't load anything in MSIE in about 5 minutes.

greetings, Oranje

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Albert Einstein
 
This is not to brag OK? But, how can you guys get more than 2 applications open and still have speed with just 64mb of RAM?

You should have enough RAM to create at least a 32mb cache and leave you with 32mb free to run other apps (windows will claim most of the first 64 on bootup in anticipating that you will open some exec file sooner or later). To do this you need 128mb. The least RAM on any machine I have here is 128mb, and I have 512mb on this one.

In 1990 the comfortable standard was 4 mb, 1994-16, 1998- 64, and now it must be 128 and going to 256mb by 2002. Memory requirements double every two years! This is an established trend.

Memory is a pitance now at just $15-20 for 64 mb and $35-45 for 128mb. Please get some more memory... you make my head hurt!!!

Go to: www.pricewatch.com where there are sticks of 256mb PC133 for just $65.

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Originally posted by Oranje:
Hello Huszics,

Maybe you'd better change that warning into:
donot try to view this site if you haven't got either Mozilla or Opera.
I gave up trying to load it, didn't load anything in MSIE in about 5 minutes.

greetings, Oranje
Click to expand...

Sorry Oranje, can't help that.

NBCI is having some problems with their webservers currently. Try reloading a few times or try again in a few days and it should work.
Either way things will look a bit crappy with MSIE (it cannot read HTML, only MSML ;-)


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... how can you guys get more than 2 applications open and still have speed with just 64mb of RAM?

Virtual Memory, ever heard of it ?

You should have enough RAM to create at least a 32mb cache and leave you with 32mb free to run other apps (windows will claim most of the first 64 on bootup

As I've already said, there's something called virtual memory. Just make shure to set a fixed value, for instance Min 300MB & Max 300, or Windoze will constantly resize it (constantly accessing the HD and sloowing everything down).

Memory is a pitance now at just $15-20 for 64 mb and $35-45 for 128mb. ...there are sticks of 256mb PC133 for just $65

Not including shipping overseas ...
Persoanlly I'm not going to buy any more SDRAM crap now that DDR is out. Would be like trowing my money into the sea. However this will have to wait until my next MB & CPU upgrade.

Please get some more memory... you make my head hurt!!!

OK, to ease your pain I will accept any memory sticks you decide to send me =)



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Originally posted by Sapura:
64 meg of RAM is quite fine, I've had that in my PC for 12+ months and beta tested EU on it, play other games. In regards to EU its actually quite fine, just make sure to keep your hard drive in good order.


Sapura
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Yes, it works. But the upgrading to 128 mb makes a helluva difference.

Regards,

EoE
 
I have 48MB of RAM (I know the minimum requirement is 64 MB, but I can't put more memory in my computer) and a pentium 233 Mhz machine and the game works perfectly.

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Lost track of this thread from weeks ago.

Virtual Memory, ever heard of it ?
Click to expand...

Of course.. 'virtual memory'... funny.. that is written to the hard disk and makes the hard disk churn and sometime loses data. That is the point. You don't want your system constantly writing to the hard disk, it's slow and less reliable in retrieving the info. GET MORE REAL MEMORY.

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