Sluggish in the mid-game

Just played my first game in Dark Avatar Beta1A.

Problem: Extremely slowed down in the mid-game. Huge map. The Dregnin is pumping out tons of fleets engaging eveyone, and then every move/click I make takes several minutes for the program to respond, and even loading a saved game takes about 5 minutes.

I know my PC isn't a powerful gamer setup (Anthlon64 3200+, 1GB RAM, 1GB pagefile, Nvidia Geforce 6600), but I thought it should be enough for a 2D game?

Have never had this problem with Dread Lord. Only experienced this with Dark Avatar.

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Sluggish in the mid-game
By (Citizen) Wallness
Posted November 25, 2006 05:32:16
Just played my first game in Dark Avatar Beta1A.

Problem: Extremely slowed down in the mid-game. Huge map. The Dregnin is pumping out tons of fleets engaging eveyone, and then every move/click I make takes several minutes for the program to respond, and even loading a saved game takes about 5 minutes.

I know my PC isn't a powerful gamer setup (Anthlon64 3200+, 1GB RAM, 1GB pagefile, Nvidia Geforce 6600), but I thought it should be enough for a 2D game? Have never had this problem with Dread Lord. Only experienced this with Dark Avatar.

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I also noticed this between the original (G.C.II) and D.A. Dark Avatar is spending more time in doing saves than it used to (I have a P4 machine). D.A. definately is spending more time in the mid game than G.C. II. I'm going to try setting the feature for 'AI to use the CPU' to nothing (unchecked box).

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A side note: When DA still remains responsive, the most noticeable sluggishness shows up when I slide the screen across the Dregnin fleets. It seems that the graphics of fleets in DA require a high end computing power or something, even though I have pretty much closed every enhancement from the video option. Hopefully this will be addressed in some later builds...

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