Anybody know if,

Danny · #1 December 5th, 2000, 08:14 PM

there is a setting anywhere in Windows 98SE to tell it to wait a certain amount of time before desiding that a program is not responding? Whenever the AI's turns get to a certainly length Windows says it's stopped responding and stalls it.

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FrankyVas · #2 December 5th, 2000, 08:28 PM

Windows only tells you it's stalled. Windows doesn't stop the operation of any programs. As a workaround, you might want to get more ram.

Frank V.

Danny · #3 December 5th, 2000, 08:33 PM

I need more then 192MB?

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Seawolf · #4 December 5th, 2000, 09:00 PM

Hurm I run the game on a P-133 with 64 ram in Win 95. I have no idea why it should take that long on your system.

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Danny · #5 December 5th, 2000, 09:07 PM

Well stupid me if I leave it run for a what? About 10-15 minutes it gets throught the AI's turn. I though when Windows (CTRL-ALT-DEL menu) said not responing it ment that the program was freezen and had to be forced to close.

I don't doubt you can run it on that system, but can you run it with 255 systems and 14 AI players? After 50+ turns when the AI's all have 500+ ships, 100+ planets, and many thousands of troops, mines, fighters, and sats.?

Still you'd think an Athlon Classic @880MHz would make this game hum.

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FrankyVas · #6 December 5th, 2000, 09:18 PM

Ok, please don't take this as an insult but, are you sure that your computer's cmos is configured correctly. I have an Athlon 650 and the morons I bought it from did not confiruge the cmos correctly. Get a benchmark program from the web and see how fast your computer is really running. If the cmos is not correct, then use it's optimal settings option.

Frank V.