Improving lag in strategic map

[midget_roxx]

Just downloaded SS but I've having some quite bad lag issues just moving around to my cities. Just wondering are there any tips to reduce this lag

[sbroadbent]

The only lag I've had on the campaign map is if I have an army or agent selected and I move away so it's now off screen, for some reason it lags. Once unselected, things return to normal. If that's what is happening, left click anywhere to unselect the army or agent.

[Rean]

Hmm, i had a similar problem, it started when my cities grew and trade increased. This increased the number of trading wagons, wich are with new models. As my pc is quite slow i had a huge lag because of this. The solution i found was to change the wagon textures back to vanilla ones. There should be a thread like this is this forum, try to search for it.

[bɑne]

The trade ship textures can be changed to vanilla as well.
go to Stainless_Steel_6\Data\terrain\aerial_map\ships
zip or rar the contents and then delete the originals.
Same should apply to Stainless_Steel_6\Data\terrain\aerial_map\wagons although I haven't used that fix myself.
Always make backups.

[JorisofHolland]

Always make backups.

The Golden Rule!

[Lord Lancelot]

The trade ship textures can be changed to vanilla as well.
go to Stainless_Steel_6\Data\terrain\aerial_map\ships
zip or rar the contents and then delete the originals.
Same should apply to Stainless_Steel_6\Data\terrain\aerial_map\wagons although I haven't used that fix myself.
Always make backups.

Hmm, i m not shure i understanded. I am bad with english. I just must delite the wagons, file in Stainless_Steel_6\Data\terrain\aerial_map\wagons ??
And that all? I dont must copy something into there?

[bɑne]

Hmm, i m not shure i understanded. I am bad with english. I just must delite the wagons, file in Stainless_Steel_6\Data\terrain\aerial_map\wagons ??
And that all? I dont must copy something into there?

Thats all you only have to delete it.
The game will use the original files in Medieval2\data as soon as the files are no longer found in mods\Stainless_Steel_6. If the game doesnt find a file in mods it always uses the original gamefiles.

[Lord Lancelot]

Thats all you only have to delete it.
The game will use the original files in Medieval2\data as soon as the files are no longer found in mods\Stainless_Steel_6. If the game doesnt find a file in mods it always uses the original gamefiles.

Thanks man. That works .

[midget_roxx]

Looking at the ships thing it seems to be the wagons and ships for trade yes? If so this wouldn't affect my performance at all. I started off as Poland and on turn 1 it was lagging quite badly :/

[Ichon]

Every move of you make scrolling the map or only moving units etc? I always get lag moving into the unexplored area but never anywhere else unless I make a huge battle 6x speed and then scroll the battle map. Shouldn't be that much lag on the campaign map.

[PerXX]

Try turning off Campaign Shadows. With the updated SS map, the heavily forrested areas of Europe can cause more lag than on the Vanilla map.

[midget_roxx]

Every move of you make scrolling the map or only moving units etc? I always get lag moving into the unexplored area but never anywhere else unless I make a huge battle 6x speed and then scroll the battle map. Shouldn't be that much lag on the campaign map.

When I'm scrolling around the map I get very annoying lag. The battles are fine though ... except for Huge city battles where I need to have my camera angle at just the right angle for it to not lag. Or else I get around 1FPS -.- (but that was the same for vanilla MTW2)

[Ichon]

Well you can always reduce settings and see how much difference that makes though if you can play most battles without lag I am not sure what would cause video card lag on the campaign map. Shadows maybe like Perxx said otherwise maybe another issue.

[Kamakai]

This hasn't happened to me on any medieval 2 mod or just medieval 2 but it happens on Rome total war which is an older game with worse quality... Explain?

[Juuu]

yea i have same problem but it doesnt lag in deserts does anyone know how do i turn off the campaign shadow or tips ? i always lag when i move in europe

[ginger_hammer]

yea i have same problem but it doesnt lag in deserts does anyone know how do i turn off the campaign shadow or tips ? i always lag when i move in europe

Just in the main video settings there is a check box for enabling campaign shadows - untick this box. You can't do it in-game, you have to be at the main menu
I have a decent enough PC and the campaign shadows still lag mine so I always turn them off.

[midget_roxx]

Yup turning off the shadows improved the lag dramaticaly . Thanks guys, now I can get even more immersed in this great mod

[Kamakai]

what does the campaign shadow do since ive got nearly everything on high and that box is ticked

[PerXX]

what does the campaign shadow do since ive got nearly everything on high and that box is ticked

It does pretty much what the name says. It creates the shadows on Campaign Map items, such as Characters, Trees and so on.

[Kamakai]

Ah right, so had does that make so much lag?