protocol7
Prince
The game seems to go into a long pause while in the game creation menu for no particular reason, during these the game doesn't respond (Windows shows a spinner and gray overlay for the app) and the CPU for Civ is at like 1%. I notice it's allocating a lot of memory and deallocating it, sort of toggling between 1.5GB and 2.5GB in use. The system itself has 64GB RAM with ~20GB total in use, so it's not running out of memory.