the campaign map hates my Navy

**onetthome** · March 24, 2009, 02:15 PM

Does everyone else's game start moving like molasses uphill when you click on one of your fleets? I have a very good computer and still it chugs when I move a naval unit.

**Toshiba** · March 24, 2009, 02:17 PM

It's a global bug, they'll fix it.

**ocelot397** · March 24, 2009, 02:19 PM

On a related note, the ONLY crash I've ever had with ETW is from ships.

If I move a ship at all and then end my turn, *poof* CTD.

**Wally** · March 24, 2009, 02:18 PM

Yes it lags for a sec or two most of the time on mine.

**Toshiba** · March 24, 2009, 02:20 PM

Yeah, Ca better get those bugs fixed because it's very annoying.

**Onizuka0513** · March 24, 2009, 02:29 PM

Yeah, my game only crashes when I select a large navy. Someone on the tech support forum said it's because late game, when you have a lot of speed increases, there's a lot of extra calculations to make for large fleets of different ships... and it's just too much. I hope it's fixed in the next patch.

**Aradius** · March 24, 2009, 03:36 PM

Pathfinding seems to slow down the game considerably. It also applies to land units - when you have a large empire and fast units, it can also take some time esp. later in the game.
It's even much more obvious with the huge distances navies can sail, of course.

**onetthome** · March 24, 2009, 03:43 PM

yeah, if I click a port it takes up to 30 seconds before I can move the naval unit out of it sometimes, times that by every single port in India and it really becomes frustrating.

**GaMMwl** · March 24, 2009, 04:38 PM

I am also experiencing lag when choosing a fleet but then I got a crappy pc- i7 920 cpu, Radeon hd4870, 6gb ddr3 ram, p6t deluxe motherboard. Im going to upgrade to run empire properly

Empire isn't bugged, its just meant to be played on alien hardware not known to man!

**enigma691** · March 24, 2009, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by GaMMwl

I am also experiencing lag when choosing a fleet but then I got a crappy pc- i7 920 cpu, Radeon hd4870, 6gb ddr3 ram, p6t deluxe motherboard. Im going to upgrade to run empire properly

Empire isn't bugged, its just meant to be played on alien hardware not known to man!

Never buy Alienware! They don't make the same machine that they use too! Build your own, if I could do it anyone can save, yourself about 3,500dollars!

**GaMMwl** · March 26, 2009, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by enigma691

Never buy Alienware! They don't make the same machine that they use too! Build your own, if I could do it anyone can save, yourself about 3,500dollars!

it was just a bad ironic joke- I meant alien-made hardware. And Im not planning to upgrade my pc anytime soon!!

**DMC-Ice** · March 24, 2009, 05:11 PM

I especially had this problem with the port on Curacao it somehow takes even longer than other ports and causes the occasional CTD. Why I dunno but it appears to be so.

**TiGGa** · March 26, 2009, 05:32 AM

Try adding a sloop to your bugged fleets. This will reduce their movement range and sort out those CTDs... hopefully. Well, it worked for me.

**Quercia** · March 26, 2009, 05:36 AM

I actually have slow speeds clicking on ports and selecing the navy tab. Very odd. Has nothing got to do with the movement on seas though.

My bro gets a CTD when he selects the 3rd big navy...

**rogergargantua** · March 26, 2009, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Quercia

I actually have slow speeds clicking on ports and selecing the navy tab. Very odd. Has nothing got to do with the movement on seas though.

My bro gets a CTD when he selects the 3rd big navy...

LOL! When I read this I was like "hey that sounds like me". And I checked username of this poster, it turns out to be my younger brother!

Yepz, I do get a CTD when I select my 3rd fleet. I also get new CTD's whenever I select my Steam Drydock at Gibraltar (south of Spain). I was constructing my 4th fleet consisting of 1st Rates etc.

**Aeneas Veneratio** · March 26, 2009, 05:01 PM

Got that lag issue with the campaign map aswell. It occurs when I click on armies, cities, navies and harbours, not when I click on a small town though.
So far I have had 2 crashes in this game. Don't recall what I was doing, when the first one struck, but the second occured after following a cannonball in slowmotion into a house (the insert ability on the artillery crew). It was the final shot for that house, so I guess my PC couldn't handle the details, when a house is destroyed in slowmotion.

**Aegrim** · March 26, 2009, 05:01 PM

my friends entire system reboots when two ships meet in combat.
only happens when somebody engages him or the other way around, not two AIs.

I get the slow reaction times when selecting ports and navies too though.