SamuraiProgrmmr
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Joined: 10/17/2004 From: Paducah, Kentucky Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: bo Hi Samurai you sound like President Bill Clinton "I feel your pain" Willy OUCH! You have cut me to the quick! quote:
ORIGINAL: bo I have never seen vassal before I had downloaded it the other day thanks to one of the posts or I would never have known about it. So I really have nothing to compare it to before so I will take your word its faster than it used to be, but in my opinion its pretty slow changing zoom. Maybe its my computer, its a two year old Dell with 2.8 dual intel chip, 2 meg of ram, nvidia 7800 graphics card with 250 memory. Maybe to slow for all the new graphics? Willy I haven't actually tried to play WIF with Vassal since I got the newest version (just about a week ago). Before it was so slow, it was painful. I did open the WIF module and loaded some of the maps and was impressed by how much quicker they loaded. I didn't try to zoom or anything. I have played another big game (Federation and Empire) and noticed huge improvements in speed. Your machine seems like enough horsepower to do it (I am assuming you meant 2G of Ram). I will try to take a look at it again and see just how fast it works under a load. One possibility is to update your video drivers, but that can sometimes make things worse. Another thing you might need to do is to change the amount of memory that Vassal is allowed to use. This used to involve digging into configuration files. With the new version, I think it is on a Preferences page somewhere. I seem to remember reading that the WIF module needed to have these settings increased for performance. I said I feel your pain because a few months ago, I was on a 3 week business trip and found out my laptop wouldn't *quite* keep up with a new game I wanted to play in the evenings in the hotel roorm. It would work. Just not very well. I also remember the days of yore when Civilization was a new game and it took 10 minutes or more to start a new game. ARRRRGH!!
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