"Buy Units" issues

[Joyride 10]

Hi there, I'm having issues that while playing LAN games whenever I click to purchase units, the menu system is extremely laggy. Taking in excess of 8-10 minutes before it will finally load with choices to purchase units, and even after that it takes more time before it will even recognize the units I bought and put them in queue for production. I was hoping 1.03 would help so is there some sort of quick-fix or download available.. or is this just one of those many errors were hoping will be patched?

Thanks again! :)

[Rapier 10]

It also does that in the campaign game on the "badlands" mission. it has extreme slowdown problems at the HQ.

[maturin 12]

To my dismay, I just discovered that this lag also happens to High Command orders in Dogs of War. Like you hand out march orders by pony messenger.

[phil545 10]

if you guys open up the map (M) while the buy units screen is open and then hit M again to close the map this will cause the list to load, this can be used for the actual buying as well

[Abc94 10]

It happens to me to but only on chenarus Warfare (like Superpowers) about 3 hours into a game and it gets so bad you have to wait for 2-3 minutes just for the menu to load.

I haven't seen this happen yet during MP though yet. Maybe it's with all of the AI during late game.:confused:

Oh and thanks phil545 for telling how to make the menu load instantly. It makes my late game playable! :)

Edited August 23, 2009 by Abc94
Additional Information

[Rapier 10]

Why is this issue is not mentioned in the bug thread or did I miss it?

[Kramxel 10]

if you guys open up the map (M) while the buy units screen is open and then hit M again to close the map this will cause the list to load, this can be used for the actual buying as well

Exactly... that's what I do....

[Greg 0]

if you guys open up the map (M) while the buy units screen is open and then hit M again to close the map this will cause the list to load, this can be used for the actual buying as well

I must be doing it wrong. I tried this work around but I still get the 'receiving...'. This is what I do:

1) Click buy to show buy menu

2) Press M to show map

3) Press M to hide map

I cannot use the buy menu in the map screen. What have I done wrong?

[Abc94 10]

1) Click buy to show buy menu

2) Press M to show map

3) Press M to hide map

I can't see anything you are doing wrong.:(

[Kramxel 10]

I must be doing it wrong. I tried this work around but I still get the 'receiving...'. This is what I do:

1) Click buy to show buy menu

2) Press M to show map

3) Press M to hide map

I cannot use the buy menu in the map screen. What have I done wrong?

What he's saying is:

- Open buy menu

- the menu appears

- loading appears

- don't close the menu!

- press M&M

- when you come back to the menu it will have loaded the list.

Do it several times... sometimes the buy menu itself takes a long time to load.... doing M&Ms several times makes it faster...

[teaboy 11]

ive noticed in certain MP games that there is a different type of menu for buying units and weapons, is it a mod version? or has anyone created a mod version that wil solve our problems? and if so can someone provide us with a link to download it please?

P.s ive now added this to issue the bug tracker.

Edited September 25, 2009 by teaboy

[.kju 3245]

I moved the ticket to the correct tracker:

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/show/4846

a) A video would help.

b) Is the issue getting worse the longer the mission runs?

[teaboy 11]

I moved the ticket to the correct tracker:

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/show/4846

a) A video would help.

b) Is the issue getting worse the longer the mission runs?

Hi KJU

I not got a video of it but, basically when you click the middle mouse button and slected buy unit/weapons it takes about 10-20 seconds to load the menu. then you have to wait for between 2-5 mins for the list of inventory available to purchase to load and same when you switch between types such as rifiles to rocket launchers. when you puchase an item it takes like 5 mins to actually process your purchase, so that it appears in your units gear on the right hand side of the menu. and the same with purchasing units and where you select the unit you want to buy and click it to add it to the list it takes 5 mins to add it to the que and upto to 10mins to actually buld the unit depsite it saying 5s in the que. in both menus if you click on somthing else to purchase it it will occasionall cancel out the previous items purchase if it has not already been added to the que or weapons inventory.

Also it tends to load the amount of money you have first if this loads up quick then the rest will load up soon after but still pretty slowly. But as mentioned in the thread earlier going in out out of the map constantly does speed things up, so weather this is related to the recieving issue mentioned in other threads i dont know.

hopefully someone will post a video of this for u.

Also similar issue with the construction menu taking longer then expected to load when you enter the construction screen.

Edited September 26, 2009 by teaboy

[teaboy 11]

bumping. anyne got a video of this problem? is so could you post it here please so the devs can review it? thanks.

[Kalikorz 10]

Does anyone have a script to just make superpowers put weapon crates at captured city centers with all the weapons in it my superpowers/warfare games are all unplayable after a short amount of time even with the MM trick.

[Abc94 10]

ive noticed in certain MP games that there is a different type of menu for buying units and weapons, is it a mod version? or has anyone created a mod version that wil solve our problems? and if so can someone provide us with a link to download it please?

It's a mod called Crcti Warfare. I have yet to actually play a game of it, but I heard it is susposed to be a smaller scale version of Warfare mode that focuses on the area around one of the airports. You can just google it or just find a server running it.

[teaboy 11]

It's a mod called Crcti Warfare. I have yet to actually play a game of it, but I heard it is susposed to be a smaller scale version of Warfare mode that focuses on the area around one of the airports. You can just google it or just find a server running it.

yeah ive played it myself but what i actually mean is, is it possible for the actual buy unit and weapons menu used in Crti warfare be used as a seperate mod, so that we can use it on all warfare types instead of stock version? would be nice if it was.

[Abc94 10]

yeah ive played it myself but what i actually mean is, is it possible for the actual buy unit and weapons menu used in Crti warfare be used as a seperate mod, so that we can use it on all warfare types instead of stock version? would be nice if it was.

Oh I see what you mean.

There probably is, I just have no idea how to do it.

Benny's warfare has a good buying system and uses the normal warfare mode with lots of improvements, like more buildings, a system for using artillary, building upgrade system. The AI can't upgrade buildings yet though.

Starting a new thread asking how to do this would probably get you an answer pretty quick.

[cmatties 10]

I don't have video either but it does get worse throught out the game. I waited 15 mins to buy t72 and then the whole game went to ****. Video lag very chopy and god for bid you want to fast travel. up till now i enjoyed the game play now.

Personal i think that there is a mem leak. I just played dog of war and i was useing all sys ram and virtual mem. i was running at 100% mem usage and like i said i was using over 8 gigs in vitrual mem

Edited October 23, 2009 by cmatties

[Abc94 10]

I find the online warfare versions you can buy units way faster without waiting for 5 minutes.