[Bug] Severe slowdown and HUD disappearing (0.86 and all other versions before that)

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In all FE versions up to now I had the following behavior:

After some turns the game becomes very slow, frame rate drops and all responses are delayedby like half a second.The game does no t run that smoothly on my machine, but the performance in this state is markedly worse. And this happens in every (non trivially short) session I played yet!

It happens mostly after a fight but not after every fight and sometimes also after some other actions like returning from the research screen, so I don't think this is related to the combat.

Also the HUD disappears in this state. I still get certain dialogs to show up, like , if I click on a city and press 'b' I can place buildings, but I don't see the cities info screen and build queue.

I can still keep on playing but often a crash follows after some turns. I also had a safe file corrupted when quick-saving in this state.

Does this happen to anyone else?

 

Here a debug file from one of my sessions: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58333537/FallenEnchantress0_86-2012-02-25T22-24-16-859.zip

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I can confirm the corrupted quick-saves. I no longer even use quick-saves because of how often they corrupt.

 

For the rest of your issues, I notice a massive difference in performance in games where I save/reload often, and games where I never load a game except after completely exiting. Is that relevant to your situation? Then again, the game runs like butter on my rig, so it sounds like you have some built-in problems.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

This really seems to be tied to saving. Due to the problems I encountered I started to safe every turn, sometimes after every action, in fear of losing to much progress to a crash.

Now I tried to play some turns without saving and all went smooth. Then I finally saved and the same turn the game crashed ;)

 

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