I'm running a fully patch BTS on a 2.2ghz dual core, 4gb ram, 8600gt graphics card on Vista home premium. Obviously sufficient and the game runs fine at full settings except leaderheads, who after all but the earliest portions of the game take an excessively long time to load. Is there a way to fix this because it really destroys the pace of the game?

Grab a cedarmill for 300 bucks change all your specs including ram, card and mobo over to the most refined monocore of all time . Its 64 bit supported unlike 98% of moncore models so you can cash in on all the ram. If that dosn' t fix the deley I'll banish myself that day: )

Try e bay if you like CIv4 its worth a few days pay.

I can't do that, it's a brand new laptop!

I hope you're joking, T.A Jones or else.... a pox on you. :mad:

I hope you're joking, T.A Jones or else.... a pox on you. :mad:

Ya in a way, I was presuming the response wouldn't be likening to my suggestion I mean :)
Oh well Im sure what you have is a great rig for todays show n tell but sadly that won't translate to fast turns on civ4. If you care, it works the same with civ3, that is ol' mono tech tuned refine seems to produce better times

Try the searchin the forums with your specs. Goodluck (serious :))