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[Antony]

Hmm sorry to report that at the start of week 3 it froze and never recovered. I did look at what resources it was using but they was no where near maxed. Such a shame, I thought maybe it was auto saving so gave it over 10 minutes just in case.

[coinich]

Hmm, are you sure this is a similar problem, or a new one?

[feld]

After reading some of the above I changed my virtual memory's upper limit from 4096Mb to 8096Mb. I then tried saving upon entering the GFFA lite version and it saved. No others tested as yet and it does not improve the lag.

Glad to hear that this works! I'm about to restart and try this now. Not surprised that it doesn't fix the lag. Looking at the task manager CPU history, my CPUs (2x3 GHz) are maxed out whenever the galactic map is being displayed.

Regret to report that resetting my virtual memory to 8096 Mb does not allow EAW to save GFFA in the first week. It just causes an exception when I try to.

I'll probably go with blasting a few pirates until I think save is possible.

[Antony]

Yes I think my game freezing could be unrelated to the saving issue but have no clue really.

I might try again, fighting the pirates like feld and then save and see if it still freezes.

[Antony]

I did try GFFA full version but did not manage to get to the point of saving as it just quit back to desktop at about week 6.

Not sure if it helps the developers but the GFFA Lite save I did upon entering the game was 116Mb in size.

I think waiting for the patch for GFFA is going to my choice of option.

[feld]

The new standard PR campaigns posted on the "Releases" page runs much better and saves correctly on the first day for me, FYI.

[Antony]

Yes I have reached week 38 (very slowly) and it still saves. I have not bothered to change my virtual memory setting back.

I am thinking having read else where of deleting out the pirate fighters of the 158 planet version but when I have time. I am finding that the rebels are not building/taking over like they did in v1.

(Off topic and probably else where)Does anyone know if the lag improves once you have beaten up lots of pirate planets?

[Kitkun]

I am finding that the rebels are not building/taking over like they did in v1.
Does anyone know if the lag improves once you have beaten up lots of pirate planets?

The AI is for some reason not building Space Colonies, so it can't build starbases at any conquered planets, so it can't build ships anywhere but the starting positions. PR is working on it, but I don't think there is a fix yet.

Yes, lag improves very noticeably as the total number of units is reduced. Keep in mind that occasionally the AI will spam tugs or something else cheap, and so requires a raid to kill a few units.

[Antony]

Thanks for the reply much appreciated. Shame about the space base thing.

[Ghostrider]

Thanks for the reply much appreciated. Shame about the space base thing.

I partially fixed this by maxing out construction facilities on all AI starting planets, so at the beginning the AI has MUCH better construction facilities than you do.

This should ensure a steady production of ships - especially as the AI has to focus it's spend solely on starting planets....

[Darth Stalin]

Well, but this also educes AI to its starting planets, as it uses all others that are conquered only as the resources...
I wonder, why the AI does not build star bases and star colonies; maybe there's sth incorrect with "naming" of these facilities?
If the original star base has been renamed into "space colony" and the support facilities (gravity well and defense satellite) renamed into "star base" then maybe the AI gets dumb as it does not recognise the "new" names?
When playing vanilla EaW and FoC, as well as the other mod (Ultimate EaW) I've noticed that the AI veeeery rarely builds anything more than higher levels of "original" star base, just to have better ship production capabilities; however, I don't remember to see ANY AI-built gravity well and only a handful (about 5 per 60+ planets of whole galaxy) of defense satellites, yet I was not sure if these facilities have been built by AI DURING the game or had been preprogrammed by the authors of the vanilla game or the mod.
Thus maybe the new system, yet quite nice-looking, does not fit the engine and typical behaviour of the AI? And maybe, though with great mourn and regret, we'll have to go back to "vanilla" star base system?

[Ghostrider]

Well, but this also educes AI to its starting planets, as it uses all others that are conquered only as the resources...
I wonder, why the AI does not build star bases and star colonies; maybe there's sth incorrect with "naming" of these facilities?
If the original star base has been renamed into "space colony" and the support facilities (gravity well and defense satellite) renamed into "star base" then maybe the AI gets dumb as it does not recognise the "new" names?
When playing vanilla EaW and FoC, as well as the other mod (Ultimate EaW) I've noticed that the AI veeeery rarely builds anything more than higher levels of "original" star base, just to have better ship production capabilities; however, I don't remember to see ANY AI-built gravity well and only a handful (about 5 per 60+ planets of whole galaxy) of defense satellites, yet I was not sure if these facilities have been built by AI DURING the game or had been preprogrammed by the authors of the vanilla game or the mod.
Thus maybe the new system, yet quite nice-looking, does not fit the engine and typical behaviour of the AI? And maybe, though with great mourn and regret, we'll have to go back to "vanilla" star base system?

This has partially been covered in another thread, but to cut a long story short, it's not the names. AI code covers perceptions and plans as well, and it's likely to be a mix of several parts that's causing the problem. We will get there though, so don't worry about having to go back to the vanilla starbase system.

[Darth Stalin]

OK - good to hear such nice news!
Maybe the AI is not "intelligent" enough to fully realise and use the new, complex system of starship construction?

[Ghostrider]

OK - good to hear such nice news!
Maybe the AI is not "intelligent" enough to fully realise and use the new, complex system of starship construction?

Yeah. Lots of bits need to be rewritten. You may have noticed that the AI spams Hypervelocity guns and refuses to build barracks. Something about the original FOC code that spends its money on the more expensive build items. How dumb is that!

So we need to take the AI to Anchorhead and have it's memory wiped - and recode chunks from scratch!

[feld]

PR,

Sorry for the threadomancy but this is very much the same problem.

I'm playing a v1.1 Outer Rim Slim Campaign and I've got this "not enough disk space" problem again.

Anyone else still seeing this? I haven't had any trouble with it at all and I've played through Thrawn, the Core, and Inner Rim Campaigns. Re-reading the thread, it seems that the issue is hardcoded into EAW/FOC. Is this the case?

v/r
feld

[Phoenix Rising]

Unfortunately, I'm as stumped as anyone on this. I don't think I could say either way without seeing the actual code that does the saving. I take it you're not actually out of disk space?

[feld]

Unfortunately, I'm as stumped as anyone on this. I don't think I could say either way without seeing the actual code that does the saving. I take it you're not actually out of disk space?

nope 28 free gigabytes.

v/r
feld

[Ghostrider]

Unfortunately, I'm as stumped as anyone on this. I don't think I could say either way without seeing the actual code that does the saving. I take it you're not actually out of disk space?

nope 28 free gigabytes.

v/r
feld

What about RAM? How much RAM are you running. My system has a glut of RAM and i've not seen the problem yet. Perhaps it's coincidence.?

[feld]

Unfortunately, I'm as stumped as anyone on this. I don't think I could say either way without seeing the actual code that does the saving. I take it you're not actually out of disk space?

nope 28 free gigabytes.

v/r
feld

What about RAM? How much RAM are you running. My system has a glut of RAM and i've not seen the problem yet. Perhaps it's coincidence.?

Hnmm...3Gb...that might be it I suppose...the problem seems to go away when I stop trying to save over one file and start a new save...wierd.
v/r
feld

[Phoenix Rising]

Have you defragged recently? I'm just taking shots in the dark here.