Posted February 05, 2015
high rated
Worked for me with some trial and error, maybe will help with others.
In doing some research, it seems that the game had issues with memory management. I vaguely remember this the first time around years ago.
What has helped me the most is putting the game into compatibility mode for Windows 98/ME. This does have one peculiar side effect of moving the savegame folder the game is looking for from:
\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Petroglyph\Empire At War\Save
to
\ProgramData\Petroglyph\Empire At War\Save
With this in mind, you'd need to move/copy your existing savegame files.
I'll note it doesn't fix the issue completely, but it sure works a heck of a lot better.
In doing some research, it seems that the game had issues with memory management. I vaguely remember this the first time around years ago.
What has helped me the most is putting the game into compatibility mode for Windows 98/ME. This does have one peculiar side effect of moving the savegame folder the game is looking for from:
\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Petroglyph\Empire At War\Save
to
\ProgramData\Petroglyph\Empire At War\Save
With this in mind, you'd need to move/copy your existing savegame files.
I'll note it doesn't fix the issue completely, but it sure works a heck of a lot better.