Everything Associated With Shipyards Is SLOW!

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Just a general observation: everything associated with shipyards is slow!

  1. Double-click on a shipyard and it takes a long time before the shipyard screen opens.
  2. Double-click on a ship one or more times in the shipyard screen and it takes a long time before the "Done" button is enabled.
  3. Click on the "+" icon to design a ship and it takes forever for the design window to open.
  4. In the ship design screen, click on the "+" icon to "Create a completely new ship design from scratch" and it takes a long time before the next screen opens.

This really needs to get fixed or players will get VERY frustrated twiddling their thumbs waiting for something that should be very quick.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Interesting.  What is your CPU, Memory and GPU?  That might help us figure out where we need to optimize.

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

The CPU is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @3.50GHz, the machine has 32 GB of memory, and the video card is an AMD Radeon (TM) R7 370 Series.

However, I do not believe the problem is the hardware because I can double-click on a core world and the screen for managing the world pops right up, but when I double-click on a shipyard it takes much longer for the screen for managing the shipyard to appear.  The slow speed gets worse as you build more shipyards so I suspect the problem is in the logic used to assemble the contents that are to appear in the management screen.

What is much worse than the shipyard management screen is clicking on the "+" icon to design a ship.  The shipyard management screen disappears and it is about 5 seconds before the ship design screen appears.  From that screen, when you click on the "+" icon to design a completely new ship it is another 5 seconds before the screen to design a new ship appears.  Exiting the designer screen is also very slow.  Again, the problem gets worse as you go through the game.  It is not bad when you start a new game, but it is almost intolerable as you get near the end of the game.

I suspect that, if you have a save of a game that has over 25 shipyards, you should be able to duplicate what I am describing.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top


Just a general observation: everything associated with shipyards is slow!

 

    1. Double-click on a shipyard and it takes a long time before the shipyard screen opens.

 

    1. Double-click on a ship one or more times in the shipyard screen and it takes a long time before the "Done" button is enabled.

 

    1. Click on the "+" icon to design a ship and it takes forever for the design window to open.

 

    1. In the ship design screen, click on the "+" icon to "Create a completely new ship design from scratch" and it takes a long time before the next screen opens.

 


This really needs to get fixed or players will get VERY frustrated twiddling their thumbs waiting for something that should be very quick.

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My computer has similar specs to yours (for Frogboy's info) 

I single click on these icons and there is brief pauses.

It does take a couple of seconds for a ship you have clicked to build to show up, however mouse over the bottom of the done button and leaving the shipyard takes minimal time. There is a problem with the buttons either not highlighting or having to find the sweet spot to get them to work.   

Reply #4 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Update:  I just completed a tiny galaxy and I did not have any speed issues with shipyards.  This would imply that the software has some kind of issue that crops-up as the galaxy size increases.  Perhaps the way collections are designed and/or accessed could be the cause.  I used to design and write multi-threaded object-oriented software that made extensive use of collections so I am very aware of the performance issues that arise when collections are not designed and used efficiently.

Reply #5 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I kind of felt that the designer was a little slow. It would s sometimes slow in three too.