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v4 slowdown
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| Author | Topic: v4 slowdown |
| Mogadeth |
posted 07-18-99 04:05 PM ET  
Has anyone else ecounter a slowdown in SMAC performance w/ v4.0 applied? It used to take like 1-2 sec for save game to load, now upwards of 8-10 sec's. Other things (nothing that I can pin down) feel like its dragging out. Ran Scandisk/deFrag/other system fixers but no change- any ideas? |
| Caminater |
posted 07-22-99 10:07 PM ET
I don't know if there is a fix for this, but I too suffer the same symptoms |
| LeslieT |
posted 07-23-99 12:30 PM ET
I too have noticed this.. Compaq 4550 -Leslie |
| Karixma |
posted 07-26-99 01:34 AM ET
I have experienced considerable slowdown since loading 4.0 also. Have contacted tech support, but no reply yet. Any ideas on fixes? |
| arioch |
posted 07-26-99 11:44 PM ET
Yes...it takes almost 20 sec between selecting a game to load and the popup of the OK dialog box. Everything else seems to move along ok. I'm on a K6-233. |
| MatFis |
posted 07-27-99 04:37 PM ET
I can only say: the same problem Systems: and Laptop |
| MatFis |
posted 07-27-99 04:40 PM ET
I can only say: the same problem Systems: and Laptop |
| MatFis |
posted 07-27-99 04:41 PM ET
I can only say: the same problem Systems: and Laptop |
| MatFis |
posted 07-27-99 04:42 PM ET
I can only say: the same problem Systems: and Laptop |
| sandworm |
posted 07-28-99 10:16 AM ET
Only with loading games, but the same thing. PII 400, 64 MB |
| MatFis |
posted 07-28-99 06:31 PM ET
I�m sorry. I had an error in my browser, so the text was send tree times (the browser was not doing anything, so I had to restart, but send this text tree times... deep, deep views into windows...) |
| Karixma |
posted 07-29-99 06:07 PM ET
Received reply from support about slowdown, they suggested upgrading drivers (sound & video). Did so but no difference, still slow. |
| Caminater |
posted 08-03-99 05:04 AM ET
I think that I know why this slowdown is occuring... It's intentional. I say this because it's not like there is really anything going on. There's no hard disk activity. There's no complicated graphics happening. There's no reason whatsoever for the slowdown except... If it was designed to be so. To me, it basically waits a fixed amount of time (Probably based on clock cycles) before it executes the load command. It's probably intended to cut down on the dredded "Reload" the game until you get the outcome that you want syndrome. Just my $0.02. |
| Karixma |
posted 08-07-99 03:26 PM ET
Just an update, I uninstalled the whole shebang and just reloaded up to patch 3. Runs fine again. I won't reload v4 until they fix it. |
| TNSe |
posted 08-08-99 12:33 AM ET
I might as well add my guess to why the saving gets slower... It is quite noticeable .. And it wouldn't surprise me that this slowdown is to unload the previous game that was going on... But that still doesn't explain why it uses so long time loading the first time after you start Alpha Centauri... I wonder if I should do some disassembling ... TNSe |
| daniel czyz |
posted 08-12-99 05:56 PM ET
I am getting the same slowdown, and I started a new game. Same problem. I have tried driver updates, scandisk, de-frag, registery optimization but no luck. The one thing is that there is no disk activity. Hope there is a fix soon! |
| jkoenig |
posted 08-15-99 03:40 PM ET
I haven't noticed any slowdown at all, but then it may be because my computer is pretty fast. But I thought I'd break ranks and at least mention that I've had no noticeable problem like this. |
| TNSe |
posted 08-15-99 07:44 PM ET
The slowdown was originally concerning loading of saved games... Which may be a feature, or may be a bug... which noone really has gotten an answer to yet. |
| daniel czyz |
posted 08-16-99 03:44 PM ET
Update from EA.com tech support: They have never heard of the v4.0 patch causing this kind of a slowdown. They think it may be caused by a problem with one of my direct-X drivers. (loading a saved game file?????) Now I am using a low-end system: P133, but I have optimized virtual memory to run on it's own partition. From some of the prev. notes I wonder if this may be causing a hang up in the load game file, if Alpha is trying to free up memory each time it loads a saved game that may explain the problem. I will try changing out my memory settings and see what happens. (Only problem with my theory is that there is no disk activity during the long wait.) If anybody else has ideas I would apprecaite it. Thanks, Daniel |
| Caminater |
posted 08-18-99 03:57 PM ET
It doesn't seem to matter whether you have a fast or slow system. I have a PII 400, 128MB RAM, a very fast SCSI HD and CD-ROM, Matrox Millenium G200, Monster Voodoo II 12MB (Which I doubt is being used by SMAC) (Etc...). Like Karixma, I downgraded to ver 3 and everything was as fast as I remembered. Ver 1 - 3 took maybe 1 second to load. Ver 4 is about 10 seconds. I clocked it. I can't believe they haven't "Heard" of this error yet. |
| DilithiumDad |
posted 08-19-99 11:23 AM ET
Yes, it takes about 10 sec to load in version 4, no disk activity, on 3 different computers, everything else happens at normal speed. |
| mcostant |
posted 08-24-99 05:56 AM ET
Sorry, no hope of a fix about the slowdown. That is definitely added by some code modification into patches 4. I suppose are some more check added to remove some bugs/instability issue. If you don't care about the few bugs fixed by patch 4 (but I don't tink so) you can downgrade back to patch 3. Forget about any more free patch or fix. Tim Train himself from Firaxis exclude that during an interview. You can wait and pay for Alien Crossfire extension (A.K.A. patch 5  for SMAC vet) for the hope of a better performance, but I won't bet on this! Or upgrade Your PC and Enjoy a faster SMAC  -- Marco, writing from Italy |
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