How To: Speed Up The Game

Many people moan about the game being too slow when it’s processing, even on the bare minimum amount of leagues with a small database, but there are a number of ways to change this and improve the processing speed. I’m going to highlight just 3 of these ways in which I feel you can turn off unnecessary features allowing you to play the game faster – or load more leagues of your choice and still play the game at a bearable speed.

Part One – Turning off TV Games

This is a very basic feature that SI have had in the game for many years now, but not many people use it. In all honesty I only use it when I’m playing a network game, but in offline games I feel it’s not that helpful. Never the less, it does make a small difference so if your game is totally unbearable then it’s definately something you should look into.

To turn it off, click FM (top right of the screen), down to Preferences, then General, then half way down the list on the right is “Move Matches for TV” – just un-tick that box and click confirm.

Part Two – “View Only” Leagues

Another quite under used feature of FM in my experience. When starting up the game and selecting the Leagues you wish to load, many people load leagues they have no interest of managing in but want a full quota of players from that League – true? Instead of loading it up like normal, simply change the “Mode” to [b]view-only[/b] from the current Playable. Obviously you can now no longer manage in that league but the majority of the detail stays in the game, although it does speed up the play time.

Part Three – Changing Detail Level

This is without doubt the best way of changing the speed of your game. You locate this in the game by going to FM (top right), then Detail Level. This will take you to the screen where you can change how much depth is put into different competitions, for example the World Cup, Club World Championships etc. If you are managing down the bottom of Blue Square North there’s very little point of you having any of those in play. You can edit them all manually to suit your needs, or at the top left there’s a drop down box which allows you to load a Preset Configuration. Currently this will be set as Default but you can move that to minimum if you so wish. You can see the immediate affect on your game by looking at the Estimate Game Speed, indicated by stars out of 5, at the top of your screen.

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