Civilization Warlords performance issues!

[nD.reDie]

Hello there

I have searched the forums far and wide, with no definitive answer, so I though I'd make a thread. Maybe some of you know just what to do.

I am running with latest patch and mostly playing on Huge maps with max number of civilizations. In the late late game, everything takes so long... and the games uses almost 700 mbs of ram. I have no problems running other hardware intensive games, so I am wondering why such an old game chops my computer up?

Is there an official fix? Or what should I do?
Sad to just play 4 civs on a standard map tt

Thanks for any advice

 

[ori]

please post your dxdiag results file.
huge maps can take a long while in the late game and 700MB is not particularly large for the game (it can use more than 2GB under certain circumstances)...

 

[nD.reDie]

please post your dxdiag results file.

Not sure what results you are referring to? Should I run dxdiag as the performance problems in long-games occur?

Be specific, as I am dumb as a bum

 

[ori]

is this windows xp or vista?

 

[nD.reDie]

is this windows xp or vista?

It is XP SP 3 or whatever is the latest

 

[ori]

Is Warlords patched to 2.13?

as for dxdiag:

on your desktop
click start
click run
type dxdiag
hit enter
in the program that opens
click save results (make sure to save the file to somewhere where you can find it)
back here
below the reply box
click on go advanced
click on manage attachments
attach the file you just saved
post

 

[nD.reDie]

Yep, the game is entirely updated

Here I bring you the dxdiag.txt
watwat!

 

[ori]

your display driver throws a WHQL error - which should not be the case - I guess there is some problem with its install - anyhow I'd recommend updating it: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

windows xp is not up to date (shouldn't affect performance - but still its advisable to install Service Pack 3 - unless there is some reason not to).

also try updating directx: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&DisplayLang=en