Long Turn Waits

[Green Warrior]

I've noticed some complaining about long turn waits with the new RR/RC compilation; but most of those seem to target BGRIV as the cause. I've been playing the new compilation for about a week or so now without BGRIV and I've still been experiencing exceptionally long turn waits -- up to three full minutes. I have a decent PC (Windows XP, four 3.0 GHz processors and an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 video card) and I've never had any delay problems with SS 6.1 on that system.

Have others been experiencing excessive delays using the new RR/RC compilation?

I love the compilation and I really don't want to go back to plain old SS 6.2; but I may be forced to do so unless I can get better turn-around times on my turns.

Might it help to install only selected mods from the compilation? Have others experimented eith that?

Thanks.

[Phosphoricus]

I have the long wait problem too. The various releases differ only slightly on this point; most have fairly long times of waiting, even without BGRIV.

I think it would be nice to know which aspects of the mod do most to increase the waiting time. I once heard that alerts (like princess comes of age, king dies, capital falls, etc) contribute, but only a little. If we find out where the bulk of the wait comes from, then we can decide whether or not it is worth sacrificing the feature(s) in order to save time.

[AnChoróinIarainn]

Try game booster- http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html
Worked a treat on my old crappy laptop. Turns off all unwanted programs when you're playing.

four 3.0 GHz processors

You mean a Quad Core right? Doesnt mean 4 processors unfortunately

[bɑne]

Try game booster- http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html
Worked a treat on my old crappy laptop. Turns off all unwanted programs when you're playing.

You mean a Quad Core right? Doesnt mean 4 processors unfortunately

Just to clarify:
Medieval II: Total War has no multicore support. Only advantage is singling out ONE core for kingdoms.exe via taskmanager. You might notice how it never exceeds 50% cpu even with both cores allocated.

Or 25% in the case above.

I've noticed some complaining about long turn waits with the new RR/RC compilation; but most of those seem to target BGRIV as the cause.

Yup there have been topics about that... another one about it won't hurt.

Might it help to install only selected mods from the compilation?

Depends. Most likely you'll have to make them manually compatible to each other which I wouldn't recommend (time consuming and error prone).
My prefered method against this is windowed mode.

[Byg]

The assimilation script can account for about 1/3 of turn delay in the BGR version, so it might be about the same in the non-BGR version I guess. I sped up BGRIV (using BGRV) and removed assimilation and the time dropped from 1:27 to 0:48.

[SoulBlade]

What's the assimilation script all about, Byg?

[Byg]

Here

[SoulBlade]

The last feature is that a player can't build/repair/retrain anything in a settlement during 1st turn after conquering it - which reflects the actual time to establish new administration in a conquered province.

I found a way to bypass this, just fight a battle or save-load the game and you can change taxes, build, recruit etc.

[k/t]

Yeah, but doing that doesn't decrease the end-of-turn waiting time.

[Green Warrior]

Yes, I meant my PC has a quad core, although they show up on Control Panel as four separate processors. (I'm not much of a computer expert, I'm afraid.)

My prefered method against this is windowed mode.

How does one play in windowed mode? I've searched the forum and found references to windowed mode but no explanation of how to implement it.

Byg, how can one remove the assimilation script?

Thanks to all for their replies.

[Shoryn]

Write this at the end of the [video] section in Stainless_Steel_Kingdoms.cfg file :

windowed = true
borderless_window = true

[Head of the Heavy Chargers]

These mods have so much more into them than vanilla or light mods that only change a few stats. This is a compilation of many mods.... A lot of scripts and such. It takes a while yes, but would you rather go back to a mod that has not much in it or stay with this mod that is a huge compilation with so much more. It is the price we pay for a good mod. I had AMD 3700+ and upgraded my PC to Intel Quad 9550P with 8GB ram and it didn't have much effect at all in waiting turns. I hate waiting the turns too... but I ain't going back to other mods that have so little to offer.