[quote]Originally posted by atomheart:
<strong>yeah, i figured that was a lot of space...
I haven't tried simming another league, and while I have a feeling that it would run smoother, within a couple of "years" it would be right back to its slowness.
I understand your hesitation in offering me anything more technical. Is there somewhere I can look? This really sucks. It now takes over 10 min to sim an off-day!!!!!
Is there any other system specs that may be of usefulness to y'all?
Also, anyone know how to delete retired players? Are they transferred to a different folder??
Thanks.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes - here is a great link for system optimization for gaming: <a href="http://www.cdmag.com/Home/home.html?article=/articles/026/077/tuning_feature.html" target="_blank">Tuning Windows for games</a>
Retired players are stored in the retired.dat file I believe. I do not think this normally gets loaded into memory and I think will only effect the proceed to next year process or whenever you want to view all retired players.
My system is not much bigger than yours (I run a celeron 333/96 MB RAM on a slow hard drive) so there is real hope you get it simming smoothly. If I were running into the problems you were having the firts thing I'd do is probably play in a smaller league - like an old style 16 team league or even smaller. That has a huge effect on sim speed. I would also disable the minor league stats and restrict the ammy draft to maybe 3 rounds (and never press the fill minors button of course
). During the heavy processing periods (30-day FA process and proceed to next year) I'd probably watch a few commercials on TV
.