BTS Lag from nowhere

[Draknith]

If someone could help that would be great...

About three days ago I was playing a BTS game going for a conquest victory. At about 2/3 of the way through my game I started running into some really bad lagging issues. I figured I just had too much stuff going on in the game. i went ahead and saved the game, logged out, and then started things back up. Upon reloading I installed the new 3.13 patch and started the game again. As soon as I started the game, the intro screen with the AP took forever to pop up and the saved game still had the lag problems. I went ahead and unloaded both CIV IV, Warlords, and BTS and reinstalled them. I noticed after all this though that CIV IV vanilla ran just fine (no lag), but when I start BTS the lag is just unbearable. I never had this problem before, and it only started occuring three days ago during my last hemispheres game. I love BTS, but can't play with such a lagging problem.

I have a AMD 3200XP w/Barton Core
1 gig of 400 FSB RAM
GeForce 5950 graphics card

If anyone has experienced this and knows a fix i would appreciate any help... Life w/out CIV BTS could possibly be not worth living... haha

 

[KMadCandy]

the lag i get isn't nearly that bad. but i do get lag more with BtS than any other version, starting late-ish in the game. i think in my case it's due to having enough EP for city visibility or investigate city for most or all of the map. that gives a lot less fog of war than holy vision did. i think the process of updating changes between turns must take longer depending on how much of the map is in the fog?

altho that may be part of your issue, my lag not nearly as bad as yours, so i bet you have more going on. i hope you figure out a way to fix it!