Performance Issue Questions

[thejeff]

Actually I ran some tests comparing turn time hosting with graphics in test mode.

Athlon 1.8G 1G Ram running Linux
Early Era, all nations Large random map.

By turn 10-12, regular turn generation time was up around 1 minute.

I copied the save and generated the turn 5 times using the GUI and 5 times in text mode. The text mode had a slight advantage, but nothing significant.
Now if your video card is already thrashing just drawing the background animation, then that may bring the whole system to a crawl, but it doesn't look like there's anything specific to updating the graphics slowing turns down.

GUI tests:
1:00
1:22
1:16
1:23
1:36
Average: 1:19.4

Text tests:
1:08
1:11
1:13
1:20
1:35
Average: 1:17.4

[mathusalem]

I'am a Imac 24" with an core2duo at 2,13Ghz, 2go of ram and a 7600GT.

And I find the game is slow in huge map with a lot of battles !

Dom3 is an Universal Binaries for mac ? Maybe not, but it will great if developper are able to compile it for MacIntel in a patch.

[reverend]

Note that graphic performance always was ludicrously slow on ATI cards in comparison to NVidia.

On my 2.6ghz, 1gig RAM with an X800XT I have 9fps when running 'High Detail'.

Thankfully, fps aren't really that important in Dominions.

[curtadams]

One reason for variance is that a successful Ermor really slows things down.

[Ygorl]

One unanswered question here, I will answer:
If you press the "f" key (for "fast-forward", natch) during battle, everything moves a lot faster. It's nice to speed up all those arcing projectiles and spells.

[Epaminondas]

Ygorl,

Thanks so much! That did help with speeding up the projectile-type of spells that takes forever to cast.