Animation issue

[Wh♂♂par]

I have looked for the term "Animations stopped" but nothing came up yet. I have an issue with Zeus, didn't try to confirm for Poseidon yet. It worked fine until the second to last mission of the Labours of Hercules.

The animations have stopped for a lot of buildings, and others like gods and all.

This way, I feel like the Urchins Divers aren't actually ever delivering food, Hephaestos attacked my city in the next mission, but simply never spawned. The crimson cloud was appearing, but he just never actually "appeared", because the animation is stuck. I hoped for a restart or reload to fix the issue, but it didn't. I could try a file verification next and edit this post according to the results. In the mean time... Does anyone have an idea, what might be causing this?

Edit: Verification recognized 2 faulty files, but it didn't fix anything.

[Duck Twacy]

Usually reinstalling fixes most things. If your gameplay is slowing or stopping, then you have a resource issue with your computer. It's usually because you have too much software running in the background. Stuff like multiple windows, streaming music or video for another monitor or other stuff.

This is especially true if you have a contemporary system. The game was designed and created for first and second generation pentium CPU, typically with RAM that's measured in megabytes, so it shouldn't be that resource intensive for the latest systems that have gigabytes of RAM.

There is a patch out there that fixes the gods' animations. You might want to install that and see what happens.

[fabio_agostino]

Dear I'm having the same issue I think. Hephaestos causing trouble while I don't see it. And worst of all Zeus that is supposed to protect cities from other Gods freezes and takes long do do his work.. meanwhile enemy Gods can attack freely the city. Could not find a solution, steam does not provide support for this game and neither activision. I finally managed to finish the missions (so i didn't reistall the game, and i'm sure it's not a computer performance problem) but any suggestion is welcome. Many thanks all

[Wh♂♂par]

It eventually fixed itself - I don't quite remember anymore. They (the Urchin collectors) started working again, animations were frozen, still. Then at some point, a week or so later, the animations started working. Very odd issue.

[Pecunia]

It's a known issue with the game: gods and urchin collectors are terribly slow due to a timing bug that is caused by today's fast CPUs.

The fix is installing this patch: https://zeus.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=967

[Wh♂♂par]

Many thanks! :)