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Started by A Nonny Moose, September 06, 2015, 10:05:59 AM

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A Nonny Moose

I run this program under wine on Ubuntu.  The current version of wine doesn't perform well with the multitasking, so it runs, but slowly.  So I have developed some strategies that allow me to play while doing other things.

First, I can't run anything else without hanging my machine for some reason.

So, I do household tasks and other things while checking in with the game about every 15 minutes or so.

For example, today I cleaned up the supper and breakfast dishes (a 10 minute task), then at noon (I started the game at 1100) I took my lunch time medications (I have a heart condition), then around 1300 I made lunch [Dagwood sandwich on egg bread with butter, Swiss cheese, mayo, sliced ham, sliced turkey and shredded lettuce (romaine)].  Did a save because I have to do some updates right now on other things, so the game is stopped.

If your game is slow, do you run other programs?  Browse the web?  Do outside things?  I hope nobody just sits there and watches the little automata running around.  This palls after a while.
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assobanana76

I can confirm you that I also having the problem of CPU to 90%, I close everything when I open Banished ..
and this happens to me since I had that problem ..
before, in not fullscreen version, I could get a mule and watch a movie while I was playing!
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A Nonny Moose

How many cores do you have at that level?  Are they equally busy or can you not find out?

If I run in windowed mode, I suppose I can find out by running system monitor, but the whole thing is so slow I haven't bothered. 

wine is a work in progress and improves over time.  At the moment it is have convulsions having to do with .NET implementation and menus.  I just keep loading up the next beta as it comes along, and hoping for improvement.  It does happen, and many earlier problems have been fixed.
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assobanana76

mmmmhhh ... core .. mmmmhhh ...
Pentium 4 mean?  :o ;D
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RedKetchup

wait. you dont have still a pentium 4 ?? ?? it is 20 years old
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assobanana76

Quote from: RedKetchup on September 08, 2015, 05:58:44 AM
wait. you dont have still a pentium 4 ?? ?? it is 20 years old

I have....  :-\ (I believe.. ;D but tonight I gonna have a check..)
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A Nonny Moose

A P4?  Run sysinfo to make sure.  What O/S version are you running?  AFAIK, a P4 is a single core.
Go not to the oracle, for it will say both yea and nay.

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https://www.haskettfh.com/winterton-john-hensall/

assobanana76

Quote from: A Nonny Moose on September 08, 2015, 10:18:21 AM
A P4?  Run sysinfo to make sure.  What O/S version are you running?  AFAIK, a P4 is a single core.
afaik??  ???
so.. I'm pretty sure it's Pentium 4 with Windows 7.  ::)
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A Nonny Moose

Go not to the oracle, for it will say both yea and nay.

[Gone, but not forgotten. Rest easy, you are no longer banished.]
https://www.haskettfh.com/winterton-john-hensall/

assobanana76

Quote from: A Nonny Moose on September 09, 2015, 09:03:59 AM
AFAIK ::= As Far As I Know
but how many things I'm learning about these forums ?? great!!  ;D
if you find grammatical errors have to be angry with GoogleTranslate! however, I am studying!!

A Nonny Moose

Watch out for LOL.  It can mean Laughing Out Loud or Little Old Ladies.  As a laugh expression is is being replaced on social media with 'haha'.
Go not to the oracle, for it will say both yea and nay.

[Gone, but not forgotten. Rest easy, you are no longer banished.]
https://www.haskettfh.com/winterton-john-hensall/

assobanana76

Quote from: A Nonny Moose on September 10, 2015, 08:19:36 AM
Watch out for LOL.  It can mean Laughing Out Loud or Little Old Ladies.  As a laugh expression is is being replaced on social media with 'haha'.

Little Old Ladies?? what kind of porn you look ??  ;D ;D
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A Nonny Moose

LOL ::= Little Old Ladies has been around in the literature at least since the 1950s, and has no porn implications.  And porn, by the way, is in the view of the beholder, so what were you thinking?  Tsk, tsk.

I think I first ran into it in a semi-biographical book about the adventures of a medical intern in a south western U.S. emergency room.  One of his pet peeves was the arrival of LOLs in NAD.  That's "Little Old Ladies in No Apparent Distress."  It was a chapter on the loneliness of seniors who would go to the E.R. for some human contact in their lives.
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assobanana76

Quote from: A Nonny Moose on September 10, 2015, 03:20:16 PM
LOL ::= Little Old Ladies has been around in the literature at least since the 1950s, and has no porn implications.  And porn, by the way, is in the view of the beholder, so what were you thinking?  Tsk, tsk.

I think I first ran into it in a semi-biographical book about the adventures of a medical intern in a south western U.S. emergency room.  One of his pet peeves was the arrival of LOLs in NAD.  That's "Little Old Ladies in No Apparent Distress."  It was a chapter on the loneliness of seniors who would go to the E.R. for some human contact in their lives.

what triple somersault to get meaning "today"!
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