Extremely long time between turns

Hello,

I started playing Europa Barbarorum II yesterday and after playing for a few hours I got sick of waiting 5 minutes between hitting end turn and starting the next one and checked the forums here to see if there was anything that could help with them. I was quite surprised to find that, at least going by my searches, nobody else seems to be having this issue- even saw someone praise the short turn times! So what gives? My PC is a few years old but it's still fairly powerful- certainly more than good enough to run modern games on high settings without trouble- that's the other thing, I have literally no complaints about EBII so far apart from the long turn times, everything else runs beautifully, even at graphics set to nearly maximum, campaign map and battle map!

This morning I nuked my entire Medieval 2 install, first by deleting local content on Steam (I'm running the Steam version), then deleting the game's folder in my steam folder on my hard drive, and even purged the registry of all entries related to Medieval 2- reinstalled the game and the mod, still have 5 minute waits between turns.

Has anyone got any idea why this is happening? If you need any information about my system specs feel free to ask with instructions on how to get them- although I don't think it's a system problem because of the aforementioned great performance all around with the exception of turn times.

Thanks a lot!

-Deathwatch

Is that every turn, or specific turns? If a faction is turning to horde, that takes up a lot more processing.

Otherwise, there is a lot more being processed in 2.03 than there was in 2.01, so it will take longer. I have an older machine and my between turn times are 2-5 minutes, I just find other things to do while it's processing.

Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius

Is that every turn, or specific turns? If a faction is turning to horde, that takes up a lot more processing.

Otherwise, there is a lot more being processed in 2.03 than there was in 2.01, so it will take longer. I have an older machine and my between turn times are 2-5 minutes, I just find other things to do while it's processing.

Every turn, and the time spent is pretty consistent- I took to lying on my bed browsing on my tablet while I waited for the turns to finish last night and my internal clock started pretty reliably warning me when the next turn would be ready.

On your PC, do you have any issues running the game aside from the long turn times? Or is it the same as with me- everything runs fine, but the turns take a while to finish?

Everything runs fine, I just accept long turn times because my machine is old. I have most of the graphical settings turned down - apparently campaign map shadows has a pretty disproportionate impact on turn-time-processing, so try turning those off.

Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius

Everything runs fine, I just accept long turn times because my machine is old. I have most of the graphical settings turned down - apparently campaign map shadows has a pretty disproportionate impact on turn-time-processing, so try turning those off.

Just went and tried that, hasn't made a noticeable difference. If there's nothing else I can do, I might have to just hold off on playing EBII for a while until it's a bit better optimized, as I can't really deal with such long periods of inactivity because I "switch off" and lose interest.