Super Slow CAS
dizzy:
I have 2GB of RAM and I still run into virtual memory thrashing after about an hour or two of play. TS2 is just a huge memory hog.
jrd:
Oh yeah, no doubt there. It's also really slow in releasing memory: it can take up to three minutes after shutting down TS2 before I get all my RAM back.
laeshanin:
FFS! Remind me why I play this game when there is life, butterflies and sunshine just but a step away? Having said that, though, this machine does seem to be coping well despite having 1.3gig in my downloads and an intergrated chip rather than card. The only time it threw a complete wobbly was when I put in Gummod's light thingy. Didn't like it at all.
jsalemi:
Quote from: dizzy on 2006 September 22, 10:24:19
I have 2GB of RAM and I still run into virtual memory thrashing after about an hour or two of play. TS2 is just a huge memory hog.
Ditto, and it gets worse if you leave it idling while you're away from the computer for a while, to the point where it gets unplayable due to the disk trashing. I read a trick somewhere (maybe here?) that said you should just minimize it to the Task Bar if you're running it full screen and plan to be away for a bit. I do that all the time now, and it's extended my total playing time without reboot by quite a bit.
But I still have to reboot at least once every couple of days to completely free the memory and start with a clean slate (and I use cacheman, too).
jrd:
The switching to and from games is one aspect where Vista looks promising.
Since Avalon will also run on the GPU, it is a lot faster to switch to desktop on Vista than it is under XP. If I go to the desktop with TS2 active and switch back to the game, it takes over a minute at least before I get a playable screen again.
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