Massive lag in village/city battles

**googi** · March 26, 2009, 08:44 AM

I am having some very strange problems : Massive lag in village/city battles. I can run everything on ultra in other normal battles, even fort ones, but when it comes to village ones, the game slows to a crawl. I tried to set everything on low, even the resolution is on 800x600 but that didn't solve the problem. So I was wondering doees anybody have this problem.
here are my specs:
q9550, 6gb ram, 8800gt, vista ultimate.

ps. I am also having sound problem and video out of memory error post-patch....

ah.. sorry, i am new to this forum, so if this post belongs to the bug section, can mod please move it there? thanz a bunch

**Ghillie** · March 26, 2009, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by googi

I am having some very strange problems : Massive lag in village/city battles. I can run everything on ultra in other normal battles, even fort ones, but when it comes to village ones, the game slows to a crawl. I tried to set everything on low, even the resolution is on 800x600 but that didn't solve the problem. So I was wondering doees anybody have this problem.
here are my specs:
q9550, 6gb ram, 8800gt, vista ultimate.

ps. I am also having sound problem and video out of memory error post-patch....

ah.. sorry, i am new to this forum, so if this post belongs to the bug section, can mod please move it there? thanz a bunch

Hi and welcome to the forum!

I can´t tell you what is wrong but I also experienced laggy land battles and out of memory errors (especially when loading the battle) after the latest patch (March 25th). I also experience that the americas map is very laggy and long response times when selecting navy units.

**Barser** · March 26, 2009, 09:59 AM

Its a common problem. I have it to.

**Tepok** · March 26, 2009, 10:02 AM

Most of the time this happens to me when I charge in buildings.

So now I just make them fall.

**googi** · March 26, 2009, 10:52 AM

thanz for the replies guys. So it seems this is a bug, quite a game breaking one as well. Hope CA hurries up and release more patches, they have a billion things to fix! Guess I'll play Thrid Age TW (anyone know this great mod for MTW2?) when it comes out (which is soon now @97%!)

and TWC is a great forum, I've been reading threads since the days of MTW2.

**dirky** · March 26, 2009, 11:10 AM

I had the same issue. I run on ultra/high for most settings. I turned off Shadows and that cleared up the problem for me. Its a PITA but I turn them off for all city battles now and back on for normal land battles.