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Originally Posted by David Watts
Yesterday in the interface thread I asked about the Spinning Cursor once again. Markus told me that it's an OS issue and I should maybe look into adding more ram or a faster HD.
My desktop is an older model, AMD Athlon II 645 processor 3.10 GHz----Installed Ram 6.0 (5.75 Usable)
64 Bit operating system x64 based processor
My laptop is a year old....Intel Core i7 5500 u CPU 2.40 GHz. 16.0 GB
64 Bit operating x 64 based processor
I get the spinning cursor using both computers. What would I need to improve to eliminate the spin?
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more RAM than what the app uses will not help in any way... figure 2gigs free for this game and you are as golden as if there were 128gigs free. (assuming it works on ~1gig or so, if i recall...a little free RAM above and beyond what is being used is a good idea, btw, but a bunch is useless.)
assuming spinning cursure = ootp app working hard in backround and/or maybe can't do anything or at least runs slower than expected.
Is this happenign at specific times of the year? maybe september or so, or late in the season during the last couple months on a day here or there?
It was a bug fixed in an old pathc, but i've seen it occur intermittently recently on those days i used to see it happen before that patch. A year long sim went from 5-6mins to ~2mins after that patch... those few days were horrendously slow even with a "faster" system.
I changed my news history to None down from All, and it helped alot... i don't read it anyway, no idea why i was keeping it... now some of my player history pages are all jacked up, lol. it keeps none, but it sure looks like some of it is still there... pfft. i think i bumped my tansaction log down from All to 10 years... i stil get a little hiccup on those late days as i did pre-patch after 20years or so of a league.... Relative to your wishes, think about changing these setitngs and see if that improves the speed.
anyway, your laptop is overkill for ootp, no worries there. so, i'd use that as a baseline for your pc. is it equally bad on both PCs? etc etc... if for most of the "Sim" year, it sims at roughly the same speed - given their age differences - then i'd say it's perfectly fine. alot of this will be a personal opinion on what "too slow for me" is. the complexity of your game world will make a big difference too. (if it bogs down more at important dates, like nearing the trade deadline, it would be normal to move a bit slower than your pc, since that machine is much faster)
If you want history to be comprehensive, don't sacrifice anythign until you single it out and know it is a cause... change one thing at a time with a freshly restored backup of your league... trial and error will figure out the problem. if it's especially slow at certain points of the year, then just keep re-trying during that time peiod until you see an impovement, then you'll know it was that setting. (Global Settings - Right side of page the likely problem if similar to what i described about the last couple months of the season -- think it had to do with expanded rosters and minors being out of seaosn or some odd AI function doing too much wihtout good reason)
i don't know amd chips well, so i can't speak much on them other than i think they cater strongly to benchmarking software as opposed to real-world implementation of their chips, but thats another conversation. this game is not complex from a number crunching standpoint, relative to hardware made in the last 5-7 years at least -- unless you bought that $150-250 paper-weight 7 years ago.
i don't use the 3d, but from what i understand, that's nothing to worry about either. if they get into high-res models and real modelled physics then you'll have to worry about your gpu, too.