a desperate call for help....

**♔Greek Strategos♔** · May 30, 2008, 04:08 PM

OK.....my game suddenly become slower and slower without obvious reasons....the map makes ages to load the battles too the whole game is now ruined....movement.... loading screens everything goes wrong...i tried everything....uninstall and install 100 times...i can't understand what is going on....everything was perfect yesterday...any ideas...please help.....

**Furin** · May 30, 2008, 06:00 PM

Some ideas:

- did you change the dlv config file from error to trace, to get a more detailed error report perhaps? This totally kills performance and should only be done for getting the report, and then switched back. If you have made this change in the main MTW2 config file the newly created DLV config file on reinstallation will still have this entry.

- did you visit/download some shady sites yesterday? Could be a malevolent program killing your PC, what about other applications, do they run slower too? Scanned for viruses lately? Got mails with attachments?

- installed anything yesterday? A virus program, any application that runs in the background? This could take away resources from MTW2

That's all i can think of for starters...

**ZaPPPa** · May 30, 2008, 07:15 PM

CCleaner... man's best friend.

and AVG anti-virus is free.

Figure out if it is just MTW or every other program that is running slow. Run 'Task Manager' and check if any processes are using lots of CPU power and/or memory. It looks to me that you are running low on memory or something is bogging down the CPU.

**Xtiaan72** · May 30, 2008, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by ZaPPPa

CCleaner... man's best friend.

and AVG anti-virus is free.

Figure out if it is just MTW or every other program that is running slow. Run 'Task Manager' and check if any processes are using lots of CPU power and/or memory. It looks to me that you are running low on memory or something is bogging down the CPU.

Zappa is right

... When is the last time you defragged? CCleaner and then a defrag.....

**♔Greek Strategos♔** · May 31, 2008, 04:52 AM

I believe that my P.C is not the problem....i run all the oher formats and programs perfectly.... i think that is something wrong with the files but i d0nt remember changing anything in the main directory.....maybe a new dowload of the mod helps???....anyway thank you all for your suggestions and help....
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One more question....how can i change virtual memory used for the specific game????? maybe this is the reason....????
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Toay i also noticed that the pop up window doesnt go away when i launch the game.....it stays there even when i quit the game and back again....

**Xtiaan72** · May 31, 2008, 05:54 AM

If you reinstall remember to delete any old DLV files that remain or you will have problems.

**♔Greek Strategos♔** · May 31, 2008, 06:03 AM

Yes i'll do it....thanks......

**Furin** · May 31, 2008, 06:20 AM

Before you reinstall, have you checked your config file?

If this

[log]
to = logs/system.log.txt
level = * error

looks like this

[log]
to = logs/system.log.txt
level = * trace

that's the cause.

**♔Greek Strategos♔** · May 31, 2008, 06:36 AM

As i remember i deleted the whole error log but after the problem occured....ths log should be like this for me to have a normal performance..... [log]
to = logs/system.log.txt
level = * error
or the error log not appears at all....??????
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I reinstall DLV 5 and 5.5 and everything is ok.....now i will install 5.6 and see if the problem appears.....again....but i think that the cause of all is the 5.6 but we will see.....?????
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Even the music in the loading map of 5.6 is full of bugs......I give up back to 5.5 i think till a new release comes out.....

**eggthief** · May 31, 2008, 07:06 AM

I have tried defragmenting from time by time, but even after 14 hours straight it still wasnt done yet. Point is that I use vista and the defragmenter with it doesnt show any progress during the process, is there any way for me to switch back on the one used by XP, so that I at least know how long I'll need?

**Overkill** · May 31, 2008, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by eggthief

I have tried defragmenting from time by time, but even after 14 hours straight it still wasnt done yet. Point is that I use vista and the defragmenter with it doesnt show any progress during the process, is there any way for me to switch back on the one used by XP, so that I at least know how long I'll need?

Check if there is any third party defragmenter for win vista.

**♔Greek Strategos♔** · May 31, 2008, 07:11 AM

No idea.....

**Xtiaan72** · May 31, 2008, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Greek strategos

Even the music in the loading map of 5.6 is full of bugs......I give up back to 5.5 i think till a new release comes out.....

That just sounds wacko... These problems your are having with 5.6 are really unique.... A bunch of us helped out playing the 5.6 betas and noone reported these kinds of bugs.... ( music on loading map )

Originally Posted by eggthief View Post
I have tried defragmenting from time by time, but even after 14 hours straight it still wasnt done yet. Point is that I use vista and the defragmenter with it doesnt show any progress during the process, is there any way for me to switch back on the one used by XP, so that I at least know how long I'll need?

Dude...Sounds like you need a defrag really badly and probably a registry clean as well. If a defrag was taking me 14 hours I'd be seriously worried about my hard drive.

**repman** · May 31, 2008, 12:01 PM

@Greek strategos
please use the edit button to avoid multiple postings
Installation is: 5.0 + 5.6 ...5.5 is not necessary

repman

**♔Greek Strategos♔** · May 31, 2008, 02:29 PM

Ok......
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Hi Repman......any ideas about my issues???? please help me if you can....

Greek strategos, please avoid double posting. The edit button is there for a reason. ~Harry Lime

**Dave Scarface** · May 31, 2008, 02:52 PM

Make sure you have plenty of free space on the drive where your game is installed. This will help improve performance and free up virtual memory. I never have more than 2 or 3 mods installed at once because they take up so much space... And as the other guys said when you uninstall DLV delete the DLV_ext folder and clean up your drive first! Before you attempt to install the mod again.

best
Dave

**♔Greek Strategos♔** · May 31, 2008, 03:37 PM

Thank you Dave....Sorry not editing before Harry Lime....

**Brown111** · June 04, 2008, 07:54 AM

Ok
Now i know where is the reason of slowing the game

I bought 1 GB ram

when i had 1gb ram
loading strategic - 3-4 minutes

when i have 2gb ram
loading game - 1 minute

Now the game is playable.
4 gb ram for DLV 5.7??

**eggthief** · June 04, 2008, 08:41 AM

4? are u

ing kidding me? you need 20gb at least.

**ZaPPPa** · June 04, 2008, 12:51 PM

I run DLV 5.6 fine with 1GB of ram. Takes probably between 1-2min per turn. I do use a tool called FSAutostart (created for optimization of Microsoft Flight Simulator) to shut down any non-critical processes in windows. And I use CCleaner at least once a week.

If you need more than 2GB to run DLV smoothly on at least a half decent CPU and video-card, you may have a bottleneck in your system somewhere.