"Import Entire History" - Page 3

Cardinal Rule · 04-05-2007, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by battists

Since you've volunteered, any chance you'd care to repeat your test one year at a time, starting at 1971 and going up to 1978, to see at which specific year it dies?

Steve

I'd be happy to try this tonight and I'll report back on my findings sometime tomorrow. Glad I can be of some help.

solarkev · 04-05-2007, 02:29 PM

I should have mentioned in my posts that I have been trying to import 1968. I didn't try other years. But, I will give other years a try on my machine too and report back. It looks like the specs on my machine are similar to Cardinal Rules'.

Cardinal Rule · 04-06-2007, 10:26 AM

I did further testing last night and was able to get the full import from Lahman for 1971-1975, and was able to at least get the imports started for 1976-1978. I had to kill these latter imports partway through because I didn't have the time to let the import complete, but the progress after 45 minutes on each was into the double digit % complete which would seem to indicate the same general time to import that I was seeing on the other 1970's imports. So it would now seem that 1979 is the first year I encounter the problem.

I did not have a chance to try 1968 which solarkev indicated was his problem year, nor did I have time to re-try 1979 or 1980, but if I have some time tonight or tomorrow I will try these years.

Cardinal Rule · 04-10-2007, 12:10 AM

Re-tried 1979 and was actually able to get it to import players up to 4% but then didn't go any further for the next 2 hours and I had to kill the process. Re-tried 1980 and it didn't ever get past 0% for 2 hours.

Anyone have any other thoughts on this? This is a feature I would really like to use, but so far doesn't look like it will work for me with later years.

Cardinal Rule · 04-10-2007, 03:46 PM

Dola - I read in another post where either Marc or one of the mods indicated the game was tested on many levels of machines to ensure it would run at the minimum advertised specs. If that's the case, would someone that is a tester with a lower spec machine be able to test these specific scenarios?

Ksyrup · 04-10-2007, 04:33 PM

Strangely, my 18 month old desktop runs sims extremely slow. So I'm mainly playing the game on my 3 year old laptop, which is way faster. BUT, when importing history, it is ridiculously slow. To get to 1977, it took 12 hours!

EDIT to say that this is with Lahman, and I got an "insufficient memory" error in the middle of it, but it kept chugging through until it finished.

Cardinal Rule · 04-11-2007, 01:37 PM

So I guess based on what I see both from my tests as well as the input of others here, I would just like someone - developer or other SI team member - to either confirm this is what I should be seeing and there's nothing to be fixed here, or that this ISN'T what should happen and someone will look into this further to determine if/how it can be fixed.

Fair enough?

falkonisback · 04-11-2007, 01:43 PM

I've tried it 3 or 4 times when I first got the game and it froze up every time for me. I tried to import up to 1970 and never worked. I was pretty frustrated with that from the get go, so I just simmed from 1901 to 1970...next best thing. It would be nice if I could just import all the real history though.

battists · 04-29-2007, 11:26 PM

Thanks everyone for your hard work in getting us information about this issue. As you can tell, we're having a very hard time narrowing down this issue, which makes it a very difficult issue to fix.

However, I have logged it as TT # 3473, and we'll see what Markus can do about it.

Thanks very much!

Steve

battists · 04-30-2007, 10:05 AM

Just FYI, Markus has indicated that he has fixed this problem in the next patch. However, we haven't had an opportunity to test this yet. Cross your fingers.

Cardinal Rule · 04-30-2007, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by battists

Just FYI, Markus has indicated that he has fixed this problem in the next patch. However, we haven't had an opportunity to test this yet. Cross your fingers.

Cautiously cool - but cool nevertheless!

rwd59 · 07-25-2007, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KCRoyalsFan

Yeah, I just can't figure out why my computer takes so long to load the Gambo DB. Is there something about it that makes it take longer?

It took me about 40 hours to import with Gambo and the same season with lahman took about 10 minutes.

04-05-2007, 02:29 PM	#42
solarkev Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 7	More info I should have mentioned in my posts that I have been trying to import 1968. I didn't try other years. But, I will give other years a try on my machine too and report back. It looks like the specs on my machine are similar to Cardinal Rules'.

04-06-2007, 10:26 AM	#43
Cardinal Rule All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Omaha Posts: 1,199	I did further testing last night and was able to get the full import from Lahman for 1971-1975, and was able to at least get the imports started for 1976-1978. I had to kill these latter imports partway through because I didn't have the time to let the import complete, but the progress after 45 minutes on each was into the double digit % complete which would seem to indicate the same general time to import that I was seeing on the other 1970's imports. So it would now seem that 1979 is the first year I encounter the problem. I did not have a chance to try 1968 which solarkev indicated was his problem year, nor did I have time to re-try 1979 or 1980, but if I have some time tonight or tomorrow I will try these years. __________________ "Go Crazy Folks!" Jack Buck

04-10-2007, 12:10 AM	#44
Cardinal Rule All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Omaha Posts: 1,199	Re-tried 1979 and was actually able to get it to import players up to 4% but then didn't go any further for the next 2 hours and I had to kill the process. Re-tried 1980 and it didn't ever get past 0% for 2 hours. Anyone have any other thoughts on this? This is a feature I would really like to use, but so far doesn't look like it will work for me with later years. __________________ "Go Crazy Folks!" Jack Buck

04-10-2007, 03:46 PM	#45
Cardinal Rule All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Omaha Posts: 1,199	Dola - I read in another post where either Marc or one of the mods indicated the game was tested on many levels of machines to ensure it would run at the minimum advertised specs. If that's the case, would someone that is a tester with a lower spec machine be able to test these specific scenarios? __________________ "Go Crazy Folks!" Jack Buck

04-10-2007, 04:33 PM	#46
Ksyrup Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 413	Strangely, my 18 month old desktop runs sims extremely slow. So I'm mainly playing the game on my 3 year old laptop, which is way faster. BUT, when importing history, it is ridiculously slow. To get to 1977, it took 12 hours! EDIT to say that this is with Lahman, and I got an "insufficient memory" error in the middle of it, but it kept chugging through until it finished. Last edited by Ksyrup; 04-10-2007 at 04:35 PM.

04-11-2007, 01:37 PM	#47
Cardinal Rule All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Omaha Posts: 1,199	So I guess based on what I see both from my tests as well as the input of others here, I would just like someone - developer or other SI team member - to either confirm this is what I should be seeing and there's nothing to be fixed here, or that this ISN'T what should happen and someone will look into this further to determine if/how it can be fixed. Fair enough? __________________ "Go Crazy Folks!" Jack Buck Last edited by Cardinal Rule; 04-11-2007 at 01:53 PM.

04-11-2007, 01:43 PM	#48
falkonisback All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Iberia, Louisiana Posts: 869	I've tried it 3 or 4 times when I first got the game and it froze up every time for me. I tried to import up to 1970 and never worked. I was pretty frustrated with that from the get go, so I just simmed from 1901 to 1970...next best thing. It would be nice if I could just import all the real history though.

04-29-2007, 11:26 PM	#49
battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506	Thanks everyone for your hard work in getting us information about this issue. As you can tell, we're having a very hard time narrowing down this issue, which makes it a very difficult issue to fix. However, I have logged it as TT # 3473, and we'll see what Markus can do about it. Thanks very much! Steve

04-30-2007, 10:05 AM	#50
battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506	Just FYI, Markus has indicated that he has fixed this problem in the next patch. However, we haven't had an opportunity to test this yet. Cross your fingers.