A couple of simple ways to make it more friendly

Epaminondas · #1 November 25th, 2006, 01:49 PM

Cainehill,

Does that mean turn generation will be significantly faster with reduced graphics setting? If it takes more than 1-2 minutes even in late game, I am going to be very annoyed.

Shovah32 · #2 November 25th, 2006, 02:15 PM

Lower settings does speed it up and annoyed you will probably be. The turn gen time can be ignored using various methods such as: having 2 game running at once, playing one while the other hosts. Browsing the internet while it hosts. Remembering to breath during play ect.

Epaminondas · #3 November 25th, 2006, 02:24 PM

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Lower settings does speed it up and annoyed you will probably be. The turn gen time can be ignored using various methods such as: having 2 game running at once, playing one while the other hosts. Browsing the internet while it hosts. Remembering to breath during play ect.

LOL, Shovah. I will have two computers once my new one arrives, but the old one has busted CD-room drive. Perhaps I should fix that, get 2 copies of the game, and run the game on two computers!

Shovah32 · #4 November 25th, 2006, 03:22 PM

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Lower settings does speed it up and annoyed you will probably be. The turn gen time can be ignored using various methods such as: having 2 game running at once, playing one while the other hosts. Browsing the internet while it hosts. Remembering to breath during play ect.

LOL, Shovah. I will have two computers once my new one arrives, but the old one has busted CD-room drive. Perhaps I should fix that, get 2 copies of the game, and run the game on two computers!

You can run the game in multiple windows on a single computer.

Epaminondas · #5 November 25th, 2006, 05:21 PM

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Lower settings does speed it up and annoyed you will probably be. The turn gen time can be ignored using various methods such as: having 2 game running at once, playing one while the other hosts. Browsing the internet while it hosts. Remembering to breath during play ect.

LOL, Shovah. I will have two computers once my new one arrives, but the old one has busted CD-room drive. Perhaps I should fix that, get 2 copies of the game, and run the game on two computers!

You can run the game in multiple windows on a single computer.

In my current crappy computer, Dom III screen becomes garbled if I alt/tab out. Same goes for windowed mode.

But I suppose this has to do with my current computer, not Dom III.

Agrajag · #6 November 25th, 2006, 05:57 PM

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LOL, Shovah. I will have two computers once my new one arrives, but the old one has busted CD-room drive. Perhaps I should fix that, get 2 copies of the game, and run the game on two computers!

My CDROM (well, DVDROM, but irrelevant) is busted as well, I just installed the game on the other computer and copied the game folder to the computer with the busted CDROM.

Epaminondas · #7 November 25th, 2006, 06:04 PM

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My CDROM (well, DVDROM, but irrelevant) is busted as well, I just installed the game on the other computer and copied the game folder to the computer with the busted CDROM.

But don't you need the physical CD in the computer to play Dom III? Most games won't let you play without a disc or so I thought.

If that is not the case, then I suppose I can run it on two computer with just 1 disc, since I have multiple monitors, keyboards, and mice.

Esben Mose Hansen · #8 November 25th, 2006, 06:16 PM

No need for a physical CD (well, at least not in the linux version, but I think this is the case for all platforms.)

alexti · #9 November 25th, 2006, 06:51 PM

You don't need physical CD other than for the installation. However Dom3 license limits you to a single concurrent copy on a computer storage medium (aside of backup). That sounds curious because I don't see any straightforward way to play it without having one copy on the hard drive and another copy in RAM

Loren · #10 November 25th, 2006, 02:50 PM

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Cainehill,

Does that mean turn generation will be significantly faster with reduced graphics setting? If it takes more than 1-2 minutes even in late game, I am going to be very annoyed.

Then don't play on the big maps. It's nice and quick on the small ones.

Furthermore, I think there's a pathfinding issue with the very long times I'm seeing--it only got bad when the AI I'm fighting started marching large armies around a complex, probably out of the way (I haven't mapped the extent of his empire yet) route to get to me. (This turn I sent over 200 heavy cav against over 300 of his units. I lost 1/4, he lost 1/2 and retreated.)