scrolling on the map is very slow...

Novaliz · Post by **Novaliz** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:25 am

I bought the game today but i have a problem. scrolling the map is very slow, anything but smooth?! Can someone help me or is this normal??

thx ahead...

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:20 pm

The scrolling is fairly slow on less powerful machnes - what are your machine specs and operating system?

Novaliz · Post by **Novaliz** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:53 pm

My System:

Intel Core 2 Duo 6300
2GB Ram
NVIDIA Geforce 7950 GTX2

I like the game, I played it all night up till today morning and now my hand hurts so bad because of the scrolling. I want to play more today but I couldnt. It hurts so much and it is annoying me so much that a game with so less system requirements runs so slowly. So I would be very thankfull If someone could solve the problem!

firepowerjohan · Post by **firepowerjohan** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:17 pm

Try righ click map to center, takes abit of practice but is a quick way of scrolling on short-medium distances. You have a faster CPU than I have in fact, so it seems strange.

Are you running any software simultaneously that require much attention from the CPU?

Novaliz · Post by **Novaliz** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:40 pm

I made my whole system new on Friday, so there is nothing running in the backround but Antivir. I have the newest NVIDIA Driver on my system and the latest Java Version. Any other game like Company of Heroes runs very fine.

firepowerjohan · Post by **firepowerjohan** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:46 pm

Maybe try to disable the virus protection briefly just to test if scrolling speed up.

Novaliz · Post by **Novaliz** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:56 pm

I disabled the Antivir AND re-installed the game, tested it without and with PAtch 1.2 but it will not run fine

As I said I installed everything new on Friday and Im not really a noob in installing/configere a PC...so I´m helpless...

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:36 pm

Two gigs of RAM, and a KILLER video card, and it still scrolls slowly, beats heck out of me!

Sounds like some weird conflict...

I had the slow scroll thing on my old box, with 512 RAM, but not on my new box. And I only have 1 gig RAM to your 2 gigs, and I have a 7800 to your 7950 video card, so this makes no sense unless it's a bizarre conflict.

I usually do not scroll that much. I tend to click on the strategic map to center my tactical view. Perhaps this might be a useful work-around for you, until you get a true fix?

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:59 pm

It does sound like an odd conflict somewhere. I would try combinations of the following to see if you can work out the problems.

- try running in a window
- try toggling the vsync settings on the video card control panel
- check whether there is some oddness with having Antialiasing enabled

Perhaps we can find out where the bottleneck is!

Cheers

Pip

firepowerjohan · Post by **firepowerjohan** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:00 am

CPU is more important than graphics card for CEAW.

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:03 am

I'm thinking it is most likely an issue with the lock/unlock/blit cycle. I guess that if there was a general CPU issue then everything would be slow. I guess it might be some wierd Java runtime spinlock issue somewhere, but that's going to much harder to track down and remedy.

Cheers

Pip

Novaliz · Post by **Novaliz** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:13 pm

Its a weird thing! With VSync Forced on it works much better

Not perfect but much better!

Now I have another question. The game forces on 1024 * 768 resolution 75 Hz refresh rate! I tried a refresh tool to change it fix to 85 Hz but the game still uses 75 Hz? and thx a lot guys for your quick answers!!!

update: when I force a Refresh Rate of 85 Hz or higher the game says "The Display doesnt support 1024 * 768"