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Progressive lag anyone?

June 24, 2008 9:11:10 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
So let's imagine we've got a single player sins game going, 5 races (all races present), 1 star, and about 100 planets.
I usually have a smooth, extremely fluid game going for about the first two hours, but mid/endgame my frame rate sinks and the game becomes very slow and choppy, with zooming in/out losing a great degree of fluidity.  Does anyone else experience this type of slowdown? It gets discouraging because I've got to play the game looking like a slide show so I usually never finish one.


My Specs:
Vista Ultimate 32bit -- 4 gigs RAM -- AMD X2 6400+ Black Edition @ 3.2 ghz/core -- Evga 8800 GT -- 320 gig WD Hard D

(btw my cores/ram never max out during these games)
And can sins make good use of quads?
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Reply #1 June 24, 2008 10:00:32 PM
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@BoozeHammer,

maybe lighten up on the "booze" and read some of the other posts/threads regarding this topic.   


SINS only uses a second core for texture-caching, after which the game is happily single-core.


One thing you might try is increasing your pagefile size (google is your friend if you don't know how to do that).

I've always used the age-old "rule-of-thumb" of pagefile = (at least) 2.5 X amount of installed RAM.


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Reply #2 June 25, 2008 12:33:19 PM
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Thanks for the advice Monk.

I do have a well scaled page file (already comparably sized to the ratio you provided).

I've had a few people tell me that the issue might be related to the Advent's AoE (and I usually play Advent with at least 1 other race playing it as well), but I was also under the assumption that the devs addressed that issue in 1.05.

Anyways I'll probably just stick to smaller games, maybe get some fraps readings for those framerate dips.


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Reply #3 June 25, 2008 6:22:28 PM
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I'm experiencing the same problem.

But it happens regardless of map size and player/computer count.

I can play the game smoothly for about 30-45 minutes then the framerate drops to around 10FPS. After which the game eventually crashes. I am well aware of the fixes posted on this forum, and none of them have any effect on my games performance. Reinstall does nothing as well.

My system is as follows:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13ghz
2 gigs of DDR2 Ram
256mb GeForce 7900

My Pagefile is set to roughly 3x the size of my available RAM also. So I know that is not the problem. It almost seems to me as if it's a memory leak causing the game to degrade in performance.
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Reply #4 June 25, 2008 7:31:40 PM
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for those running nvidia 7x series, be sure you upgrade to the 8x/9x driver. there is another post in this forum that will help with specifics.

as for large maps that slow down, happens to me too. not much i can do about it. as i have more crud float around my 60-80 planets the game has more to process. i have plenty of computing power.

anyone not see lag on the largest maps in single player?
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Reply #5 June 25, 2008 7:35:54 PM
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Thats odd...because i'm running the latest drivers from nVidia.
btw...since I forgot to mention, I am under Windows Vista 32-bit
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Reply #6 July 22, 2008 12:35:32 AM
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hey getz....bou the whole memory leak did u ever find anytin? it seems to me that that is exactly what is happening to my computer
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Reply #7 August 28, 2008 3:15:15 PM
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Been a while since I've been on these forums.  I kinda gave up on Sins for a little while because of my inability to play it.   Which totally blows because I seriously enjoy this game.    As for the whole memory leak thing... I'd have to run some memory tests while having the game running and I haven't gottena round to doing any sort of testing.

 

Curious though...was a fix ever discovered for this wee issue?

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Reply #8 August 28, 2008 3:34:46 PM
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Try updating both the game and drivers.

 

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