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July 30th, 2001, 10:10 PM
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Turn Calc Time
Hi all!
On my PC (400 Celeron w/ 160 Mb RAM) it takes upwards of 2-3 mins to calc the AIs turn! Anybody know of anyway to speed it up? Thanks!
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July 31st, 2001, 02:36 AM
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Re: Turn Calc Time
What else are you running at the same time or in the background? I play SE IV on a three-year-old Pentium II/233 with only 64M RAM, and most AIs take only a few seconds each for their turns.
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July 31st, 2001, 03:11 AM
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Re: Turn Calc Time
First, do you mean 2-3 minutes for ONE AI turn? Or for all of them? A few minutes for all of them is not surprising for a large game. How many ships and units do the AI races have? When they start to have hundreds of ships and thousands of units each it does add up to a lot of processing time.
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July 31st, 2001, 03:54 AM
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Re: Turn Calc Time
It's late in the game with around 100 systems in the galaxy. It takes a few minutes for all of the cps to move. I have the number of ships allowed set to 200 and the only things running in the background are my virus software and nic. Are there any options to speed it up a bit? It gets kind of frustrating do move a fleet 1 space away from an enemy and then have to stare at the screen waiting for the battle to start!
-Hota
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July 31st, 2001, 06:08 PM
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Re: Turn Calc Time
I routinely turn my antivirus shield off when I'm not Online, but if your system has an "always on" DSL connection, that wouldn't be a good idea for you to try. I'm not familiar with "nic".
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
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July 31st, 2001, 08:45 PM
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Re: Turn Calc Time
Hota,
My computer is similar to yours, and very late in a game it can easily take two or three minutes. Of course, at that stage it routinely takes me half an hour to run my turns. So that three minutes is a good time to grab a snack 
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