cabal23 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 When I play Circle the Wagon in RT or WEGO single player my game runs fine, but when I try to play it PBEM the framerate drops to nothing. The mouse response slows down and I can barely exit out. Any idea what would cause that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabal23 Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 OOPPS..I mean Bad Moon Rising...NOT Circle the Wagons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Balboa Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 PBEM should not effect your performance at all. PBEM just means you are saving a turn then sending it by email or receiving a saved turn. Try emailing a turn to yourself and see if you get the same results. If your email client is running in the background while CMSF is running, this could be causing some resource problems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabal23 Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 Ok I did what you said. I emailed myself and the same thing happened. The scenario is crippled and barely moves. Went back and played it RT and WEGO, runs smooth as silk. I am playing the Syrians. Could someone try and replicate this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatoichi Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Hi - I've just tried this myself and I saw no performance issues in the PBEM files when playing out each side's turns for the first 8 turns - I gave each side's tanks a hunt command to the other side of the map and was able to zoom in, select tanks and generally muck about with no problems. However, the turns get to be 25Mb each very quickly, which seems pretty email unfriendly. I was just copying the files from my Outgoing Email folder to my Incoming Email folder in explorer rather than actually using email to send them - so maybe there's a problem with the way your email client is handling such large files? Unless you were doing the same as me, in which case I really don't know! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEzra Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 An aspect of PBEM with large map scen like Bad Moon Rising is the first real files (setup and move orders, ect) are very large. There can be drags and frame rate loss. But once past those PBEM play seems to play normally. I play PBEM a lot...Playing Bad Moon at this moment. Please do let me know if trouble persist as you get into the scen. Re: Larger PBEM files. I found my normal email couldn't handle the file size. G-mail helped but still had some problems. I dl'd the free version of "sendthisfile" and have had zero trouble since. I recommend it to all PBEM'rs...Free, easy, works 100% 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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