Any suggestions for speeding up turn processing?

[xierxior]

Raapys said:
It's only a 3ghz P4 HT, so not much to brag about.

Perhaps it would be possible to make SE one of the games that could take advantage of dual CPUs, but I guess that's a long shot given we only got one programmer.

actually, not its not its a 3ghz athlon 3800+ venice running at 3ghz on water without thermal thorttling which IS something to brag about.
see link http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...g?t=1170793296

[AAshbery76]

I like big epic games with 15 empires.The game is unplayable with these torrid turn times unless you have tiny games.I hope more work is done to speed the game.

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, combat does take a while. 2 minutes on my PC.

I suspect that the processing time is mostly independent of the number of ships involved.
Which seems to imply that it processes at a fixed timerate.

[Raapys]

I did some tests with a stopwatch, and it does indeed look as if AI combats are limited to 8x speed just like the player's combats.

A combat that took 8 seconds for the AI to finish took 9'ish seconds at 8x when I loaded the previous turn and played that AI empire myself.

[xierxior]

I sent arron and email reguarding this issue. from my perspective, it doesn't appear the game is ultilising all of my cpu's cycles considering I still get 80/100+ fps during "processing turn" if se:v was using all of the avalable cpu cycles then my fps would take a serious hit.

[Spectarofdeath]

Playing on a small, with only about 10 empires and it takes me a little while too. This is def something I would love to see get fixed. 2-3 minutes for a turn to get processed is way to much. I can live with it, but it will definitly drive me away from the game after too long.

[thebigsilly]

It would help if battles could go faster than 8x. Why not 10x, 12x and 16x?