Game running VERY slow

wildhagen

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When i run Civ3 on my main (Windows 2000) machine, it sometimes take 2-3 minutes before next turn pops up (in the later era's, 1900 A.D. and higher). My computer is fast enough, as far as i know. It's a Thunderbird 950 Mhz with 768 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 32 MB videocard, Windows 2000 SP2 and ALL the updates/hotfixes from Microsoft.

When I run it on my second machine (which is a P3-500 Mhz, 256 MB, nVidia TNT2 Ultra, Windows 98 SE with ALL updates), it runs a lot faster...

How is that possible, and more important, how do i fix this?

I got the lastest audio and videodrivers, and the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers for my chipset.

I play a standard map, with 5 other civilizations.

I run version 1.16f, with the correct patch (not the first one, but the fixed one). All background applications (except GetRight and Printer Icon) are disabled.
 
On my XP machine, with 16 Civs, it takes upwards of 15 minutes per turn after about 1000AD. I'd say I can work around it, except I just found out that all of my save games are corrupted, including all the auto saves, so it's pretty much going back to CompUSA this weekend if the patch doesn't fix it.

Mac
 
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