Does Loading All Players From Many Countries Make The Game Really Slow?

I know if you load all players from a lot of countries, a new game (for me at least) takes ages to load in the first place, but how does it affect the actual gameplay? Is the game much slower when there is that many players loaded up or are there any other worries I should have if I am to load all players from say ten countries or more???

ofc it will use up more RAM which ofc will make the game slower

More players = more stats and more events so yes.

It'll use both more RAM and more CPU cycles.

You are better off using some player retain files for the stuff you really want kept in and running a medium database.

thanks for the replies guys, yeah I used to use the Huge database file that you could get for fm07 (and 08?). Really starting to think that the large database option in game just isnt large enough.

thanks for the replies guys, yeah I used to use the Huge database file that you could get for fm07 (and 08?). Really starting to think that the large database option in game just isnt large enough.

large DB + all players from brazil, argentina and france and you're good to go

large DB + all players from brazil, argentina and france and you're good to go

Not really, I play as Bohemians in Ireland and the only decent players I can hope to sign are from obscure nations.

Not really, I play as Bohemians in Ireland and the only decent players I can hope to sign are from obscure nations.

so wouldn't you realistically only buy british national players and ireland? and maybe minor nations like estonia?

http://www.sortitoutsi.net/2009/utilities/downloads/38/various%20leagues%20ddt%202008_09

The file above contains lots of ddt files for leagues around the world. It's also got a UEFA file in, where the squads from the top ranked teams in Europe are retained.

so wouldn't you realistically only buy british national players and ireland? and maybe minor nations like estonia?

the best players I have bought for Bohs have come from many diverse countries, Slovenia, Slovakia, Honduras, Chile, Poland, Hungary, Spain, Venezuela etc etc almost never buy Irish or English as the only ones that will join are not good enough imo.

Just to give you an example - usually play with retain players from the other 4 British countries on commentary only - usually takes around 5 hours to complete first season

yesterday tried retaining all players from 15 countries - was still in November after 8 hours

Well im playing 50 odd leagues from just about 30 nations, and find that its progressing well. Still takes me about the same time to complete a season as it would with just 4 leagues from 1 nation.

TBH there is a BIG difference between running a lot of leagues and retaining all players from those nations - I went from 20,000 known players to 180,000 known players - that's the difference

good point..dont think i would ever have got to the start of the season if I did that

- all the way from the start of the season I was saying to myself "I don't care how long it takes - It a massive game now!" - then I realised the game didn't load the 200+ Japanese players I created so I gave up

Added over 1000 new players on Saturday using the editor - all -7 to -10 potential

I read a similar discussion [thread=60745]here[/thread], hopefully you can find additional helpful information there