1.21 slow

[Gundam]

I don't know what they have done with it but is takes 10 times longer for everything in the game....when I load a modern era game on huge map I go to eat or smoke a cigare becouse it takes 3 minutes at least..I have a PIII 650 with 64 ram. what is wrong with that..they made the patch to rase te minimum requirement or what ?

 

[Parmenion]

It sure does, don't know why though. My PC is brand new, super-duper, mutt's-nuts, ultra-top spec and ran Civ 3 prior to the patch with no probs at all, even when all 16 civs are playing on a huge map and it's 2020 AD, but now it takes a few seconds between turns even in 4000 BC.

You smoke a cigar between turns? Cool..... you must be the Churchill of Civ.

 

[syswei]

1.21 is PAINFULLY slow. Yes, you get hourglass-type waits even in the early stages. But by the time you get up to the modern age, the game is unplayable. I gave up and uninstalled 1.21. Didn't play civ3 at all for a month, I was so disgusted. Finally went back, but am playing with 1.17. Firaxis I hope you read this and make performance a priority.

 

[D. Boon's Ghost]

I believe that alot of it has to do with the auto-save compression, as they changed it with 1.21. Your PC now has to do alittle more work between turns.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

It has become a good idea to turn of auto-save, since it does take some time to compress the game. Especially early on, when hardly anything happenes, I tend to save every third or forth turn, later on i prefer to svae after I moved my troops - so I don´t need autosave. Saves me about 6 seconds average, up to 25 on huge map with 16 civ late game.....

 

[warpstorm]

Please, get some more RAM. 64M is barely enough to run the operating system much less the game. It won't run well with that.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Just read original post again, and I have to agree with warpstorm. 64 MB is enough to run Windows, but as soon as you start up a program, Windows will have to use a swap file on the HD

 

[tenpenny]

They're right. RAM might be what's holding you up. I play on an old web/database server that I got for cheap. It's a dual Pentium II 400, but it's got 1024 MB of RAM, and the new patch is not unbearably slow.

 

[sgrig]

I've got a Celeron 650, with 128MB RAM. Extremely Huge map (256x256) games with 16 players are almost unbearably slow in the modern age especially - it takes at least 5-7 minutes to load a game, the AI moves take almost an hour, whenever a road, harbour, airport are destroyed the wait is another few minutes.

However my last game was 12 players on a large map, and the loading time is at most 1 minute, and the wait between turns is also very short.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

We have to remember that the number of units and especially unit interaction goes up significantly the more civs there are. So i guess fopr 16 civs and a huge map it will have to be 1GHz and 512 RAM, because even with that i sometimes have 1 minute of waiting on town razings and so on.....