Really Slowwww naval battles

**Old Geezer** · December 30, 2010, 02:18 PM

Is anyone else or everyone else experiencing extremely slow resolution of naval battles, especially when more than 4 vessels are involved? I can't imagine why this should be.

**Stylix** · December 30, 2010, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by Old Geezer

Is anyone else or everyone else experiencing extremely slow resolution of naval battles, especially when more than 4 vessels are involved? I can't imagine why this should be.

I have not noticed any slow naval combat.

**Dave Scarface** · January 01, 2011, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by Old Geezer

Is anyone else or everyone else experiencing extremely slow resolution of naval battles, especially when more than 4 vessels are involved? I can't imagine why this should be.

You could try turning down the campaign resolution in settings. This might help if you are experiencing lag on the campaign map.

**Old Geezer** · January 06, 2011, 09:49 AM

I have tried it on the lowest settings and the resolution does not speed up, even with just 2 vessels in combat.

**fryslan** · January 19, 2011, 12:50 PM

by my is it that if i do next turn it takes 1 to 2 minuts to my turn again and if i want to play a battle it need s to load also verry long. sorry for my english

**Magefsx** · January 19, 2011, 12:52 PM

Turn times are due to the large number of factions combined with the large map. There's not much you can do about this except buy a more powerful rig, or grab a cuppa coffee or whatever

Battle load times shouldn't be any longer than normal med2 loading times

**Old Geezer** · January 19, 2011, 03:45 PM

Game loading and battle loading are fast. I have a very fast computer and video card. Land battles are fast. I think that I need to reload the game. When it gets to turn 150 (I always have had over 50 settlements) or so, if I access the city/agent/generals screen the game exits from the game instantly to the desktop.

**Old Geezer** · January 19, 2011, 07:22 PM

I just tried some naval battles at the start of a campaign on my old computer which runs on XP rather than Windows 7. The naval battles are very slow still but not nearly as slow as on the Windows 7 machine.

**Stylix** · January 19, 2011, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by Old Geezer

I just tried some naval battles at the start of a campaign on my old computer which runs on XP rather than Windows 7. The naval battles are very slow still but not nearly as slow as on the Windows 7 machine.

Do you have UAC disabled for the M2TW folder?
Do you have these lines of code at the beginning of your medieval2.kingdoms_grand_campaign_mod.cfg file?

Code:

[io]
file_first = true
disable_file_cache = true

**mattgoby** · January 21, 2011, 09:53 AM

I think the same problem occurs in thera or at least the veirson i played.

**Old Geezer** · January 23, 2011, 08:36 PM

I did as you suggested Stylix, but there is apparently no change. Three vessels attacking 1 still took 10 seconds to resolve; and 2 vessels attacking a large stack took 15 or more seconds to resolve and about 10 for the 2 separate attacking ships to retreat. These were from existing games. I haven't tried it in a new game yet; would that matter?

I started a new game and it took 10 seconds for the 3 English ships to resolve an attack against a HRE ship. Similar but faster - down to about 8 sec. - when attacking with reduced numbers against the Danes. The retreats were still taking 5 seconds or more.

**Old Geezer** · January 25, 2011, 06:03 PM

Thanks I'll give this a try. It would be an easy solution.

**Old Geezer** · May 28, 2011, 08:37 PM

I finally fixed my problem by uninstalling KGCM and downloading a new copy of 3.0 from FileFront and 4.2 Patch. Then I emptied the virtual store junk. I also changed the security settings for Medieval to allow any and all changes. So now the naval battles are normally fast. Hopefully this also will rid me of the game lock ups that I keep getting when I would get over 100 settlements and 100 turns into the game. I think that I had a corrupted installation before that caused these problems.

**Stylix** · May 28, 2011, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by Old Geezer

I finally fixed my problem by uninstalling KGCM and downloading a new copy of 3.0 from FileFront and 4.2 Patch. Then I emptied the virtual store junk. I also changed the security settings for Medieval to allow any and all changes.

I am glad to hear that you fixed the problem.

I did not experience this because as soon as I installed Vista and then again when I upgraded to Win 7, I had disabled the UAC for the M2TW folder before installing the mod. I have recently added a line to the top of the instructions post suggesting that Vista/Win 7 users disable UAC before installing the mod.

**Old Geezer** · June 03, 2011, 09:43 AM

Good Advice! Everyone should remember to turn the security setting back up after installing/modding. I apparently failed to do so and got a virus notification from AVG that one of my Med 2 files was quarantined and I could no longer load the game and had to reinstall. It would be nice and unbelievably professional if Microsoft could have a little annoying button appear in their annoying task bar to warn one that the UAC is off, but that would not be in their tradition. (I am not a grumpy old man - I get testosterone injections.)

**Stylix** · June 03, 2011, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Old Geezer

Good Advice! Everyone should remember to turn the security setting back up after installing/modding. I apparently failed to do so and got a virus notification from AVG that one of my Med 2 files was quarantined and I could no longer load the game and had to reinstall. It would be nice and unbelievably professional if Microsoft could have a little annoying button appear in their annoying task bar to warn one that the UAC is off, but that would not be in their tradition. (I am not a grumpy old man - I get testosterone injections.)

It might be interesting to note that one version of AVG reported that the Kingdoms.exe file contained a virus. It turned out to be a false positive, but caused numerous users major headaches. It was quickly patched and has not occured again. Search the hot seat forum if you want to learn more about it. This is a not uncommon occurance with older applications and is not unique to AVG.