🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mar 25, 9:39 am, Iguana <Iguana^...@email.t-com.hr> wrote:
> nko...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Whenever I'm playing eventually the game will start slowing down
> > drastically. If I go to the taskmanager through alttab I see SYSTEM
> > process at 99% CPU. Quitting sometimes solves it eventually and it
> > will come and go. I patched it but that doesn't seen to have an
> > effect. Is there any solution for this problem?
>
> The graphic engine (SAGE) has a known memory leak "feature". If your
> computer starts to swap (check out if HDD LED is blinking) when the
> slowdown occurs, then it is probably "out of memory" problem.
>
> You can try a few things:
> a) adding more memory to your PC always helps
> b) try playing with less AI players
> c) try playing on smaller maps
> d) turn down the graphics details etc. in graphics options (to conserve RAM)
> e) kill all background programs, system tray utilities, monitors etc.
> before playing the game to maximize the available RAM for the game
> (delays swapping and slowdown)
> f) check out the swap file size on your system, and set it to fixed
> size, for example to 2,5 x the installed RAM.
>
> To clarify the f) point: If you leave the swap as dynamic (Windows
> manages size) then it's even slower to swap. If you have 512MB RAM, set
> the swap size to min=1280, max=1280, 1 part, on the same partition. If
> possible, not on the system partition where Windows directory resides
> (usually it's C:). So, when the game starts to swap, if your swap file
> isn't "optimized", then it will swap even slower.
>
> BTW, AI opponents need a lots of RAM, and/or the CPU power. Every AI
> builds a lots of units, and then it needs to manage them, calculate
> paths & decisions. The game goes much faster and needs less RAM e.g. if
> you play with your 2 buddies vs 3 other humans, than if you play vs 3
> AI's. If possible, do not include much AI's if you don't have a heaps of
> RAM.

The System has 2gb of DDR Ram so I don't think more is going to make
much of a difference. The problem seems to be the CPU itself. After
about 30 minutes playing the SYSTEM process uses up nearly all the
cycles. It runs fine aside from these times..