What is the Stability Manager?

[Thiudareiks]

As the title states, how do I use it?
Thanks a lot

[calvinus]

Stability manager (level) is a parameter that can be set inside the Setup tool.
This parameter was introduced to improve the game stability performances.
Each level has a remark aside, i.e.: 3 (average PCs).

Technically speaking, it's a sort of delay performed during the game updates - all engine core inner procedures performed to refresh all game items such as nations, armies, etc. etc. (which are frequent, being GI a real-time game!). This sort of delay is useful in order to prevent "collisions" in data-accesses-and-modifications that could be caused in a multi-threaded application...

Well, very complex explanation? In simple words, let's say higher values introduce a bit slowness factor in game performances. Use level 3, it should be ok...

[Thiudareiks]

Thanks for answer.
I got what you mean with "collisions".
In which cases I should modify its value?

calvinus, sei italiano?? wow!

[calvinus]

You should change this value only if you have a PC very old (high values) or very very fast (low values).

Perhaps a simpler explanation about "collisions" could be: when the game runs, there's a number of about 4-5 threads that work in background, a kind of mini-applications that "share" the same data objects with the game. Such an architecture must avoid absolutely any potentially crashing behaviours such as: "an object is destroyed while a thread reads/uses it".

Anche tu sei italiano?

[Thiudareiks]

Si

Ma i problemi di crash sono dovuti a questi conflitti RW, WW?
Oggi mi è crashato mentre salvavo, cosa che non mi era mai successa... è già stato riportato come problema?