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[meltz]

OK i just bought the game but cant play it cause of how long it takes for everything to load up and such, now i know i dont have a good computer, and im getting a new one soon. but my question is does the game run smooth on a good computer, or does it always run slow and load super slow? just wanted to know how it runs for you guys that have ok computers

[battists]

Originally Posted by meltz

OK i just bought the game but cant play it cause of how long it takes for everything to load up and such, now i know i dont have a good computer, and im getting a new one soon. but my question is does the game run smooth on a good computer, or does it always run slow and load super slow? just wanted to know how it runs for you guys that have ok computers

It runs well for me, and my computer isn't monstro or anything...

[spleen1015]

How much RAM do you have?

[HolyCow98]

Well....I have a desktop and a laptop that I have the game installed on.

Desktop:
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
1 GB PC 3200 DDR (Crucial Ballistix)
Geforce 7900 GT KO 256 MB Video Card
Windows XP Pro

Laptop:
Intel Celeron M 1.5 Ghz
512 MB PC4200 DDR2 (generic)
Onboard Video
Onboard Sound
Windows XP Home

I expected it to run well on my desktop and it does but I've been pleasantly surprised that there isn't a big drop off on my laptop. On either the game runs smooth with improved simming speed.

[Mister Bogart]

Runs smooth and fast on both my laptop and desktop.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by meltz

OK i just bought the game but cant play it cause of how long it takes for everything to load up and such, now i know i dont have a good computer, and im getting a new one soon. but my question is does the game run smooth on a good computer, or does it always run slow and load super slow? just wanted to know how it runs for you guys that have ok computers

How slow does it load for you?

Mine takes 30 seconds to load the game. I have replaced the SI logo with something more enjoyable to watch during that time.

I can sim a season in a few minutes.

[bphilipb]

Mine runs smoothly too. How many leagues are you running at one time? If your computer is a little older that may have something to do with it.

BB

[meltz]

yeah this computer is about 5 years maybe older, its a really crappy computer, i dont even know how much ram i have in it, guess ill just have to wait for my new computer to play.

i tried to play it on this one, but took about an houre and half to just load up my new league i made, then takes about 10 minutes to click on a guy to view in the draft, so yeah it defently take a ton of time for me to even get started =(


thanks for the replys though =)

[jbsnadb]

I used to run OOTP 6.x on my old computer with 128MB of RAM, of which between 16 and 64 MB were shared with onboard AGP graffics, and which playing games was quick, there was a lag of a few minutes to generate the box score, which led to some crashes I was none too happy about. So, i bought 128MB more of RAM, and all of a sudden...WOW. I was no longer able to smoke a cigarette in the time it took to move from one game to another.

Long story short (too late), just a lilttle bit of extra RAM above and beyond the minimum requirements can go a long way.

Also, check to make sure that there is nothing running in the background that is using too much of your CPU's thinking power. this can be a major drain on resources fro OOTP, until they can get the memory leak fixed in the new patch, of course.

[HolyCow98]

Just for reference here is the listed system minimums

OS: WIN 98/ME/2000/XP
CPU: 1Ghz
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Hard Drive: 400 MB free hard disk space
Memory: 256 MB RAM

And their recommendations

OS: WIN XP
CPU: 2.2 Ghz
Memory: 512 MB RAM

[Vris]

Originally Posted by jbsnadb

check to make sure that there is nothing running in the background that is using too much of your CPU's thinking power.

Like OOTP.

(note, this is not a shot on OOTP itself; just that it's a memory hog)