Slitherine

I was excited to see the Burma Road expansion advertised...I've really enjoyed playing this title, and though I have yet to get through all the content
produced up to this point, its good to see it continuing to get support.

I find the way aircraft work in the game vastly superior (read: more realistic) to Panzer Corps, along with various other details in the combat mechanics.

I like the game, and find it immersive, challenging, and fun...I really want to "LOVE" it, but just can't.
Because the longer I've played, the more technical problems I've encountered. It appears to be that the size of the scenarios increases...I posted earlier with a question about the Leyte Gulf scenario, and received advice that finally allowed me to run the scenario successfully with the map set to two-dimensional. With that setting, and some of the other graphics turned down, I've managed to make it through to the final apocalyptic invasion of Japan. But it still loads very slowly, and the computer's turns take a loooong time...with it "thinking" for several minutes before I ever see a unit move.

I have to make clear that while the A.I. has been challenging enough to keep me entertained, the main challenge I've faced is in figuring out ways to keep the game running...and that I might well have given up on those efforts a while ago, if I did not like the game so much. Understand that I do not WANT to play with the reduced graphics...I miss the 3D terrain...but I'm doing so in part because I'm invested in the Campaign, and want to see it through to the end in whatever form I must.

Another issue, that is separate in my mind, but irritating nonetheless, is the consistent problems I've had with Multiplayer. This game was recommended to me by a wargamer friend who bought it long after it was initially released. We have been playing games together for years, both table-top and via computer, and were looking for a new title for our digital dueling. We were both impressed, and ultimately purchased every expansion.

From the beginning, we had problems with scenarios we were playing "locking up" and being unable to continue them. That sort of thing often happens when you play games over the internet or email, and we just chalked it up to corrupt files and started new games. But the problem seems to have gotten worse. Its reached a point where I don't even try to play Multiplayer anymore, which is a shame, because we had a lot of fun with it while it was working.

Its occurred to me that the problem may in fact be that my aging computer is slowly dying, though I don't want to consider that awful possibility!
I know that information about my system may be useful to people, but don't know exactly what you need to know, so here's a bunch of info:
I have a Dell PC, running Windows Vista Home Premium, with an AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core 2.3 GHz Processor, 3327 MB of RAM, a 32 bit operating system,
and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 graphics card.

Any suggestions you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

With a 32bit Windows, you won't be able to run the game in full 3D, at least with the bigger scenarios.
The 32bit won't allow the system to allocate all the resources (RAM) that the game's engine needs.
Please remember that the game is build in a 3D engine.
To make things worse, your hardware is also lacking processor and graphic power, so... you should start considering replacing your system with a new one.

I'm doing Burma Road and the Scenario where there are a lot of units from India defending and the Brits can help defend and or go for the supply dumps it is stuck on Thinking even though it is all the way to the right the red bar - maybe I need to restart and even reboot

I have a i7 6800K 6-core with 14MB L3 Cache going 3.4GHz (3.6Ghz turbo)

32 GB DDR4-2400MHz Memory

8 GB Nvidia GeForece GTX 1070 Gaming GDDR5 video card

Solid State Hard Drives but its running slow on this Scenario

Windows 7 64 Bit and I'm running the 64 bit version

Well, the other scenarios were ok I probably need to reboot

bloodphoenix wrote:...Because the longer I've played, the more technical problems I've encountered. It appears to be that the size of the scenarios increases..........Any suggestions you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Personally I prefer the smaller scenarios because we can play them the same way we make love-- quickly, brutally, decisively-- therefore the problem of lockup doesn't arise for me.
In fact I don't like big scens in any computer game, it's like wading through molasses, maybe developers should do polls to find out whether the majority of players want big scens anyway?

Bloodphoenix after using Auslogics Disk Defrag which you can download and use for free (5%) of my harddrive was fragmented and then rebooting everything ran fine albiet it may be a more up to date pc but it ran like crap until I did that it kept saying thinking for about 7 minuetes cause I was typing stuff in the forums ok anyway

it ran fine after that so - then you should try defragging it with auslogics and then rebooting cause even if you have a good pc it will at times require this then you could turn down all the graphics and see if it will run out all .. but then thats no fun

Piddle with Options and Preferences but then you probably have already done that turn it all .. all the way down and see what happens then tweak it back up should only take about 5 hours to get it right

I remember reading somewhere not so long ago (either here in the OOB forum or on youtube or wherever) that too many trigger routines in OOB scenarios can cause delays and/or freezes as our computers poor little brains get overtaxed and go into lockdown as they struggle to work out what permutations of triggers have been fulfilled or not, especially in the bigger more complex scens.