Seraiel
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I think I've found a bug. I reinstalled the OS on my PC about 2 months ago, and when I set up CIV as proposed in the guide on the HoF-page, I noticed CIV running smooth in the very beginning and then starting to stutter more and more with the game becoming unplayable after a few minutes. I consulted the task-manager and found that it only ran on 1 of 8 cores (4 with HT) , and even with the core being fully overclocked, it was used 100%. I tested and think I've found out, that the Windows XP SP2 compatility mode seems to be the reason of this, because when running CIV normally again, so without compatility mode, the task got distributed over all cores making it run fluently again.
I didn't experience this in my prior installation of Windows 7 x64, so it's possible that this is caused by one of the Windows updates that got released in the meantime. It might even be the cause of an update missing, because I didn't install the updates unlocking the Windows 10 upgrade.
Unless I report otherwise, you can be certain that it's the Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode that caused this bug and this + the fix imo. should be mentioned in the guide from in a week at latest.
System:
Alienware M17xR4
Intel i7 QM-3630
ATI Radeon HD 7970M
I didn't experience this in my prior installation of Windows 7 x64, so it's possible that this is caused by one of the Windows updates that got released in the meantime. It might even be the cause of an update missing, because I didn't install the updates unlocking the Windows 10 upgrade.
Unless I report otherwise, you can be certain that it's the Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode that caused this bug and this + the fix imo. should be mentioned in the guide from in a week at latest.
System:
Alienware M17xR4
Intel i7 QM-3630
ATI Radeon HD 7970M