Hi,

I'm involved with several PBEMs. When I open the game even if it's an earlier save, even before I choose which save I'm going to play! - the opening graphics display in a 'cut-up' way: it's as if every 4th frame of the animation is frozen for a couple of seconds. And then, once I can move the cursor around, that same Haltingness continues. :confused: It's as if there's a secret program running, which is using up most of my MacBook's resources while I'm trying to play civ.

I'm attaching a save, so that people can see if this same thing happens on their system. Maybe it's something unique to me?? Even without opening the save, you should experience what I'm talking about.

The only other thing that seems relevant to mention is the odd static noise - which, weirdly enough, chops out at precisely the same moments as the game processing hiccups. :dunno:

I'm not sure I understand the situation. Are you saying that, just because you have placed the PBEM saves in your Civ4 data folder, the game software misbehaves; even if you are not going to open one of them?

Yes, the game was misbehaving even on the menu screen before I loaded a game. I did not test to see if SP performance was affected, as I rarely play SP.

Having left the computer in sleep mode all night, I played a save a few hours ago and the problem did not occur. So I guess it was a transient issue. :dunno:

I'll certainly post here again if it happens, for whatever it's worth ;)