Delay when selecting fleets

**dizzymonkey** · March 21, 2009, 11:42 PM

Hi All,

I have an odd problem where when I click on a fleet on the campaign map the game freezes for anywhere between 4-20 seconds. It is only with fleets that I have this problem.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

**Groove74** · March 21, 2009, 11:47 PM

yeah man I too have this issue but I see it when swithing between any 2 items on the map or sea. I do think this is gonna be adresses in the future patch

**Freeman** · March 21, 2009, 11:49 PM

this also happens to me. it happens when i select a decently stacked navy or my capital(paris). the game lags for like 10-20 secs. it very annoying.

**Arta** · March 23, 2009, 03:30 AM

I get this one too, very annoying cause I've been spamming Indiamen this entire GC and every two turns I have to click my port to get my Indiamen, wait for lag, move Indiamen to trade area, /repeat x5...

Takes a long time.

Intel E2600 Dual Core
4 Gigs of ram
Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L mobo
8800GT
Windows XP

**razor1952** · March 23, 2009, 04:47 AM

yes this is a real pain , I tried however disabling sound which I think made some difference but did not fix the problem but probably worth trying to see if it improves things a bit.

**green tea** · March 23, 2009, 07:20 AM

I had exactly the same problem, but now I don´t have this anymore. Why? Now my game ctds when I click on a fleet. But that also is not entirely correct, since I can´t click on a fleet anymore since my savegames are corrupted and the game ctds each time I try to load them. I bet you will experience the same progress.

**The_Dude** · March 23, 2009, 07:21 AM

i had this problem occur on occasion...and it only happened with one specific fleet in portsmouth steam drydock. funny enough, after a couple of turns it just went away

**Zhuge_Liang** · March 23, 2009, 07:16 PM

I progressed to the 1780's and have had no CTD's on the campaign map

**Leonidas** · March 23, 2009, 07:25 PM

I have made it up to 1783 in GC and now have a CTD every time I click on a fleet of mine with a full stacked army in the Caribbean.

**mandalore9** · March 23, 2009, 09:23 PM

The reason why there is a ctd or 'lag' is because of your cpu. When you click a naval unit or a port that contains a naval unit, the game calculates the pathing and range of travel. Early game it is not really a problem as there are only brigs/sloops with very short ranges. Our problem arises when the game progresses. One gets first rates and techs up things like copper hulls(which increases campaign map movement). I have tested this myself.

The real, yet impractical solution to this problem would be to either put a sloop in each armada, or spend $$$ to upgrade your cpu.
I hope that clears things up for you guys. cheers

**Onizuka0513** · March 23, 2009, 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by mandalore9

The reason why there is a ctd or 'lag' is because of your cpu. When you click a naval unit or a port that contains a naval unit, the game calculates the pathing and range of travel. Early game it is not really a problem as there are only brigs/sloops with very short ranges. Our problem arises when the game progresses. One gets first rates and techs up things like copper hulls(which increases campaign map movement). I have tested this myself.

The real, yet impractical solution to this problem would be to either put a sloop in each armada, or spend $$$ to upgrade your cpu.
I hope that clears things up for you guys. cheers

I'm about to test this out myself.

**redshift.** · March 24, 2009, 08:14 AM

I can't move armies in or out of cities without *BOOM WHITE SCREEN* followed by "Empire: Total War has encountered a problem and needs to close." This happened summer of 1770 with 10 regions left to take in the GC. Worked absolutely flawlessly up until that point.

**ginger_hammer** · March 24, 2009, 08:55 AM

hmm this issue smells to me like a sound/codec issue, hopefully addressed in patch. However I could be totally wrong!

**Guilliman** · March 24, 2009, 09:09 AM

Yup, it's a calculation issue on CA's part. The game needs to calculate the pathing range of all ships in the fleet. Buying a faster CPU won't solve it. I'm running a C2Q (quadcore for those) at 3.8ghz, having the same issue still. I worked arround it by pretty much reducing naval range and make the +campaign map increase from technologies nearly useless for naval.

I'm guessing the code can use a few runs of optimization for this to go away :S And we all know how long that might take :S

**willh90** · March 24, 2009, 10:33 AM

i always get this problem when selecting either a port or a navy. sometimes it takes up to 60 seconds...

**Serax** · March 25, 2009, 06:24 AM

Ya, I had this happen to me. Took over all of Europe and was starting on America just waiting for the game to end. I got to 1792 when I was starting to get CTD when selecting certain naval units.