Painfully slow in XP

KillerAlloyBatboy · 03-22-2002, 08:19 PM

Hi,

I'm finding ootp4 painfully slow. Just today, I bought the game around 3:00p.m.-- and played straight until 1:00 a.m., just to finish a season-- and yes, 95% of the time was spent simming. I'm using XP Pro over here. Is there a patch, or any other way in which i can speed this puppy up?

Killebrew · 03-22-2002, 08:49 PM

The game should not be slow on a modern PC - on my 3 year old system a season takes between 15-20 minutes depending on the size of the league. Give us your system specs (processor speed, RAM, and free hard drive space) and any vital game info (example: are you running a fictional, modern, or historic league? How many teams? etc.). Are you running something in that background that causes the game to hang? I can't imagine why a season would take 10 hours to complete unless you were playing each game out in play by play mode

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KillerAlloyBatboy · 03-22-2002, 08:55 PM

Thanks for answering. I was running nothing in the background at the time -- strange eh?

My specs are, P3 500, 386 megs of ram. 17 gig hard drive.

The league I'm running is fictious, straight out of the "box"

Thanks!!

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IatricSB · 03-22-2002, 09:39 PM

Since you have a P3, I would think you could sim faster than I do:

I have PII 700Mhz 256 Ram and I'm using Windows 2000.

A 16 team league playing 154 games will sim in 3 minutes if I disable my virus protection and 9 to 10 minutes with virus enabled.

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Killebrew · 03-22-2002, 10:23 PM

Yeah wow, something is definately wrong there. If I were you I would do some basic system checks, looking for memory and hard drive problems first of all. I recall hearing a story like this years ago where someone with a new PC and new OS (Win98 when it was new) had a crawling system, but it ended up they were running it in 16 bit mode - I doubt you even can run XP that way though.

Are you having any problems with other applications? Sure there is not something heavy duty running in the background, like crash guard, anti-virus, or a firewall program? These would be running in the background without you starting them. I forget how to check in XP, I'd guess just pressing CNT+ALT+DEL one time to see most of the running programs.

scefalu · 03-23-2002, 10:53 AM

I've been running OOTP 3 & 4 on an XP system (1 GHz, 256 Mb RAM) and I haven't seen this sort of slow-down.

Killebrew's right about hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL to see the task manager ... I would start there and begin disabling the little unnecessary things XP likes to start up (e.g., Windows Messenger).

Good luck!

KillerAlloyBatboy · 03-23-2002, 08:19 PM

Ok, I think i have it going a little faster-- i've disabled norton anti-virus & firewall. Strange though, never had a problem like this before...

Still a little slow on the offseason signings, but otherwise o.k.

Thanks for the advice

03-22-2002, 08:19 PM	#1
KillerAlloyBatboy Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 9	Painfully slow in XP Hi, I'm finding ootp4 painfully slow. Just today, I bought the game around 3:00p.m.-- and played straight until 1:00 a.m., just to finish a season-- and yes, 95% of the time was spent simming. I'm using XP Pro over here. Is there a patch, or any other way in which i can speed this puppy up?

03-22-2002, 08:49 PM	#2
Killebrew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,326	The game should not be slow on a modern PC - on my 3 year old system a season takes between 15-20 minutes depending on the size of the league. Give us your system specs (processor speed, RAM, and free hard drive space) and any vital game info (example: are you running a fictional, modern, or historic league? How many teams? etc.). Are you running something in that background that causes the game to hang? I can't imagine why a season would take 10 hours to complete unless you were playing each game out in play by play mode . __________________ FOBL Capital City Metropolitans CDL Minnesota Twins

03-22-2002, 09:39 PM	#4
IatricSB Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: California Posts: 3,493	Since you have a P3, I would think you could sim faster than I do: I have PII 700Mhz 256 Ram and I'm using Windows 2000. A 16 team league playing 154 games will sim in 3 minutes if I disable my virus protection and 9 to 10 minutes with virus enabled. [ March 23, 2002: Message edited by: IatricSB ]</p> __________________ Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!" Chicago(N) - Boys of Summer Oakland - 20th Century League Bakersfield - Wild Things Brooklyn - QBA Dodge City - NBSL California - ABC Dodger's Senioriest fan on the OOTP Boards

03-22-2002, 10:23 PM	#5
Killebrew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,326	Yeah wow, something is definately wrong there. If I were you I would do some basic system checks, looking for memory and hard drive problems first of all. I recall hearing a story like this years ago where someone with a new PC and new OS (Win98 when it was new) had a crawling system, but it ended up they were running it in 16 bit mode - I doubt you even can run XP that way though. Are you having any problems with other applications? Sure there is not something heavy duty running in the background, like crash guard, anti-virus, or a firewall program? These would be running in the background without you starting them. I forget how to check in XP, I'd guess just pressing CNT+ALT+DEL one time to see most of the running programs. __________________ FOBL Capital City Metropolitans CDL Minnesota Twins

03-23-2002, 10:53 AM	#6
scefalu Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 355	I've been running OOTP 3 & 4 on an XP system (1 GHz, 256 Mb RAM) and I haven't seen this sort of slow-down. Killebrew's right about hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL to see the task manager ... I would start there and begin disabling the little unnecessary things XP likes to start up (e.g., Windows Messenger). Good luck! __________________ Shawn

03-22-2002, 08:55 PM	#3
KillerAlloyBatboy Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 9	Thanks for answering. I was running nothing in the background at the time -- strange eh? My specs are, P3 500, 386 megs of ram. 17 gig hard drive. The league I'm running is fictious, straight out of the "box" Thanks!! [ March 23, 2002: Message edited by: KillerAlloyBatboy ]</p>

03-23-2002, 08:19 PM	#7
KillerAlloyBatboy Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 9	Ok, I think i have it going a little faster-- i've disabled norton anti-virus & firewall. Strange though, never had a problem like this before... Still a little slow on the offseason signings, but otherwise o.k. Thanks for the advice