diplomacy popup causes game to lag

[kingkano]

Okay I got to the root of my problem for sure. thanks to the guys who posted suggestions before. I was wrong about civ using my pagefile (but thats because windows conned me grrr - telling me PF usage was 1gig and the pagefile was still 50mb in size why BGates why!).

Anyhoo, onwards. Certain meetings with the other civs (spanish for sure ermmm trying to remember otherones, I know the musics! lol) causes everything to start going choppy and even after closing that diplomacy session the game just 'chops' from there, very slow laggy etc. if I alt-tab out to desktop and back, everything is fine again! Not all civs do it too, germans dont americans dont, but there are particular ones.

soooo.... any ideas why???

possible answers to questions. I defrag the drive regularly so its not fragmentation. I have 2 gig of memory so its not that. 6800gt gfx card so doubt its that. audigy 2zs and I use EAX3 sound setting I also tried 7.1 discreet and eax2 and eax4. any suggestions appreciated!

memory usage is good after the patch btw around 750mbs for an 16civs or so extra large map in late game...

cheers in advance

 

[MooseMuffin]

I have basically the same problem. The game runs just fine up until a wonder movie or deplomacy popup (which has the leader movies). This screen just chugs along, and then the game continues to chug even after the screen goes away. After a while it goes away, and if I click to close the popups fast enough, sometimes I can avoid the slowdown entirely. My system is more than capable of running the game at top speed (A64 3700, 1gb ram, nvidia 6800), so I dont know whats going on.

 

[kingkano]

moosemuffin.... could you try my trick? after the wonder/leader movie... alt tab to windows. then alt tab back to civ... you should find the chug has gone and the game is normal again. if it is could you post back? perhaps its a real bug


ohhhh and you can turn off wonder movies it sucks I know, but I did that. stops one cause. then its just the diplomacy leader movies. Hey is there a way to turn these off at all?!?!?

 

[MooseMuffin]

Yep, one alt-tab and its silky smooth again. I suppose that works as a temporary fix.

 

[kingkano]

You can turn off the wonder movies too as well documented. Then its just the leader portraits/diplomacy things. Which I cant seem to find a way to turn off *grumbles* any ideas on that one anybody?