CMAK Issue

[Some_God]

Sometimes the blue line (whatever it is) takes too long to finish. I have to wait like 2 minutes for it to finish and I cant even minimize ... serious waste of time.

[WWB]

The 'blue line' is the turn processing progress bar. Basically, the computer is calculating exactly what happens there so one can watch the movie over and over from whatever angle one wants.

In order to make it go faster one needs to:

a) get a faster computer

or

b) play smaller battles.

As far as I have noticed, the biggest determinant (outside of the above) to speed of the bar is number of units potentially in LoS of each other. So, a large flat desert map with a tank battalion or two on it will take alot longer than a map of italian hill country where most units can hide behind solid objects.

WWB

PS: 2 minutes aint bad. I had one operation that is as-yet unpublished which could take 20+ minutes on a celeron 800. The record, AFAIK, is 35+ for To the Volga.

[Some_God]

Ahh .. thats why the Defence of Snipe (or whatever the name is) would take mad long to load...