Speeding up battles

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Karacan:
There are a couple of shareware solutions to grabbing a video from the current screen (somewhat like capturing a screenshot). My personal favourite, Fraps, requires little enough overall computer power that it's running just fine alongside everything I launch at it. That's a hassle for normal battle reviews, though... start the game, open the battlereport, hit the key to start recording, hit the key to stop recording, minimize Dominions, get out your movie-viewer, launch the captured file, and then jump to the position you want to see again... hrmmm... Can we have adjustable battle-replay-speed like in DomI?

Something that isn't part of the game engine would be mostly useless, IMHO. If you decide to watch a battle replay closely, you'll want to click on units to see what their current state is; you won't be able to do this if you simply capture the movie.