Campaign lag

**Emperor Napolean Bonaparte IX** · April 24, 2010, 05:46 PM

im getteing alot of campaign map lag is there a way to fix this?

**bɑne** · April 24, 2010, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by Emperor Napolean Bonaparte IX

im getteing alot of campaign map lag is there a way to fix this?

Making the campaign map faster?
and
Improving lag in strategic map

Originally Posted by ginger_hammer

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

Originally Posted by bane_tw

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.

Searching the forum helps alot as well....

**Emperor Napolean Bonaparte IX** · April 25, 2010, 02:00 PM

but my computer is pretty good enough to play the game and i have the smoothest game ever, but after i defragmented my hard drive(and the game) it started getting ALOT ALOT of lag

**bɑne** · April 25, 2010, 04:01 PM

Might be helpful to give information such as this right at the beginning.

Bear with me as I'm going out of a limp here: Whatever defragmented your drive didn't do a good job.

**Emperor Napolean Bonaparte IX** · April 25, 2010, 07:09 PM

i used that Gamebooster by Iobit game defrag and um... a regristry cleaner defrag

**bɑne** · April 25, 2010, 08:26 PM

Aside from a general "when its not broken, dont fix it" advise:

Download "defraggler" (http://www.filehippo.com/download_defraggler) install it and just scan the drive medieval total war is installed on.
That will give you a nice visual of your situation and list all files currently fragmented. If its red, its bad.

**midget_roxx** · April 25, 2010, 11:33 PM

I've had the same problem as you and you fix it by turning off the shadows in the campaign map. The trees will look a bit funny but it's well worth the extra speed in campaign mode

**bɑne** · April 26, 2010, 12:13 AM

Actually his problem is that everything worked fine until he "defragmented" his drive. Everything else is mentioned or linked in the second post already