FAQ entry

Keywords: All, Open General, performance,

How can I do to run OpenGen faster?

On modern PCs, OpenGen should run fast enough, but if you find it to run slow try these hints:

• Do not play with hexgrid ON (use the <h> hotkey to toggle).
• Disable logs, specially if your HDD is not fast enough (Settings –> User Interface Settings).
• Turn weather animations off: do not enable “Show weather animation” (Settings –> User Interface Settings).
• Do NOT play with “Show terrain labels…” ON (Settings –> User Interface Settings).

  

• Try to use a lower resolution, do not use higher resolutions if you have a rather old video card.
• Set refresh rate timer a bit slower (Settings –> Screen Settings) to 40 ms or so, it makes scroll not so smooth but saves CPU ticks. Lower timer gives smoother screen, but uses more CPU.
• On same Screen Settings set Delay for rotation to 0 (no rotation of units to change face).

  

• Do not run any program needing much CPU or system memory while running OpenGen.