Time it takes to sim mulitple years

[Teyeler]

I have a fictional league set up. I have MLB with all 30 teams, AAA, AA and A with 4 leagues that I made up.

I set up to sim 10 years, went to work. Came home and after 9 hours only 4 seasons have passed. Is this normal? Or is something wrong.

Seems to me it should'nt take 9 hours to sim 4 years.

[zekester91]

Originally Posted by Teyeler

I have a fictional league set up. I have MLB with all 30 teams, AAA, AA and A with 4 leagues that I made up.

I set up to sim 10 years, went to work. Came home and after 9 hours only 4 seasons have passed. Is this normal? Or is something wrong.

Seems to me it should'nt take 9 hours to sim 4 years.

would need more information, system type, antivirus/other programs running.

[neojonas]

I have a 1 year old laptop and it took me about 2 hours to sim 10 years with a 30 team mlb style, full minors setup.

[AD31]

Mine was going pretty slow and I have a pretty old computer.

Besides the old standards (simple dialog box, don't dave any boxscores or gamelogs, etc..) I found defragging my computer seemed to speed things up.

My mind could have been playing tricks on me (its sneaky like that) but I am pretty sure I had a noticable difference.

[billethius]

Are you saving all logs and boxscores? How about generating an almanac at the end of each year?

[Eugene Church]

I have a Dell Dimension DIM 3000
Intel Pentium 4 CPU
280 GHZ
512 MB of RAM

Not a computer geek, but I think it is a pretty good computer...about two years old.

Simming with the latest patch with default settings, it took 5 minutes and 40 seconds to sim a year.

Major league and 5 minor leagues.

[Neags23]

I found that the best thing to do to speed up sim speed is to turn off ghost players. That made a huge difference. May have doubled the sim speed.

[Bluenoser]

Go to Game Preferences, 3rd option down "Auto-play Display". Make sure this is set to "Simple dialog".

You will see a very noticeable increase in sim time.

[AD31]

Originally Posted by Neags23

I found that the best thing to do to speed up sim speed is to turn off ghost players. That made a huge difference. May have doubled the sim speed.

Yeah, forgot this, really helped alot to.

[Teyeler]

Thanks all for your help. I'll be playing around later tonight and I'll let you know how it goes.


I was planning on defraging the computer, lets see if that helps.

[Teyeler]

Thanks for all the input. I defraged my computer and used all the other suggestions and it seemed to have helped. I simmed 1 /12 yeas in just over an hour last night so I'm thinking thats pretty good. I have 10 years simming right now and when I get home from work I'll see how it really is

[kckid4u]

You have to make sure no anti virus programs are working in the background. Use task manager to shut them all down under "user" and "system." When I did this, the game flys while simming multiple seasons.

[1998 Yankees]

Also, I took these notes from some earlier thread(s) on this board. User beware!

Like OOTP2006, 2007 does a lot of writing and reading from files on the hard drive. Many people discovered they could get better performance from their computers if they turned off Windows Indexing of the OOTP2006 folder.

For 2007, the folder that's getting a lot of writing and reading (presuming you haven't changed the default location) is the one in your My Documents.

For example: C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\My Documents\Sports Interactive\OOTP Baseball 2007

In Windows XP, to turn off indexing, go to that folder, right-click, select Properties, then Advanced, and uncheck “For fast searching, allow Indexing Service to index this folder”.

Indexing Service creates indexes of the contents and properties of all files on local and network drives in order to increase file searching speed. It's quite similar to "Find Fast" that ships with Microsoft Office. Indexing Service runs continuously and can slow down your PC's general performance because it has to index files continuously. If you don't need slightly faster file searches, the feature can be safely turned off altogether.

Turning this service off to increase overall performance: Open My Computer -> right-click on a Drive icon -> Select Properties -> Remove the checkmark from "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" -> Click Apply. Make sure to select "Apply changes to :\, subfolders and files." before clicking OK in the new window.

Follow up note from battists:
If you want your Windows XP computer to perform better overall, unrelated to OOTP, turning this entire service off is probably Step #1. It adds very little functionality and is a tremendous resource hog.