Does anyone else have this minor problem...

[Dan2312]

When the game loads you get a pause on the title screen for 5-10 secs each time it loads?

Its an annoyance but the game works fine after the pause, anyone know how to stop it?

[A Psyduck]

I haven't had this happen, but if I had to guess, it is probably something that is slowing down or temporarily halting the game's ability to load models for the gameplay demo that plays behind the title screen.

Does this happen to you on the Forces of Corruption expansion's title screen as well; or is it isolated to just the base Empire at War title screen?

Also, if you are playing this game on a Windows computer, did you make sure set all the game's ".exe" files to run as an Admin and in compatibility mode for either Windows XP (Service Pack 3) or any of the Windows Vista options? I always have to do that to get the game to run on any of my computers at all.

It might also be a good idea to turn off the Steam Overlay since some older games have issues when that is enabled (General rule of thumb is to disable the Steam Overlay for games that officially released before 2011 (with the exception of games made by Valve) or if you are going to run the game in a small window instead of fullscreen).

[Dan2312]

Yeah it happens on both EAW and FOC. i will try your suggestions. Thanks.

[Dan2312]

Still happening after doing all of what you suggested. Its a strange one.

[A Psyduck]

Ok, I looked around some older discussion threads, and unfortunately it seems that your problem is something that isn't easy to resolve.

The game does not use Multi-core processing and was built with Single-core processors in mind. While this doesn't prevent the game from running on a computer using a Multi-core CPU, it will only ever use one of the cores. This means that the game's ability to process and initialize objects, code, etc. will be limited by the speed of just one of the cores of the CPU. (Most games these days will split the workload between all of the cores if it detects that the CPU is indeed Multi-core.) Also, if you are using a laptop or a computer that actively alters your CPU's clock speed, then that will also have an impact.

[Dan2312]

okay thanks, its nothing major, as long as i can still play the game, thats all that matters.

[WKA1441]

same thing happens to me but I can't actually play the game or mods and it goes into the battle going into the background of the menus