anyone have a slow machine?
 

Anyone have a slow machine?
the reason I ask is that Id love to have a list of what it says as its processing a turn. Its helpful to know things like "Horrors" comes before "Resolving battles" and that comes before "Income". But most of it flies too fast for me to see.

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

One of the machines I play Dom3 on is a 4 year old Mac PB.

Runs pretty good, though random map creation take a few minutes...

One message I see during "the hosting" is "Lost in time and space"...

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

Horrors are first.
There�s also Heresy (?????)
And some other strange occurrences I don�t recall.
Then battles (most of the turn time).
After that income and some other things. I�ll take a look into that tonight.

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

Thats interesting. Its probably the programemr version of clean-up checking for items that are in the array that arent otherwise handled.

Is it slow enough for you to write down that list in the order that it processes? If you are so inclined it would be appreciated. It would be useful to this community in answering questions about why certain things seem to happen.

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

I get the Lost in Time and Space message alot. I was going to start a thread about it, but there are so many these days that I figured it'd just get lost quickly.

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

You could always use CPUkill or the like.

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

I get:

AI thinking, then Horrors, Recruitment, Assasinations, (assasination and magic) battles, Movement, (lots of) resolving battles, Enchantments, Construction, Income; Insanity and Lost in Time and space toward the end, and finally creating fatherland file.
Pretty sure I missed some stages, overall it coresponds to turn resolution stages

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

I thought about CPUkill but the machine is doing alot of work. Dominions is what I do between work windows. I cant afford to slow down everything.

Turn resolution is what I want. The order. The fact that it does horrors before resolving battles will answer some questions. Just like resolving battles coming before enchantments.

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

The turn order is detailed on page 71 of the manual. I would have assumed that "Horrors" would take place in step 6: "magic battles". I wonder if the "Horrors" in the processing message has any relation at all to the "horrors" creature in the game, or if it is just a tongue-in-cheek message describing the calculations taking place.

Re: anyone have a slow machine?
 

Well, I HAVE a slow machine. In fact, so slow that the game won�t even run!! Hahaha http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif