How Do I Make Civ 4 Load turns Faster?

[yehozz]

Yes as the topic says i am wondering what in the computer should i uppgrade to make the turns go faster, at this moment i am playing Rise Of The Mankind i am playing the Giant earth map whit 50 Civs and i really want to play whit 50 Civs but dont like the time the turns take every time. at the begining the turns takes about 5-10 Sec and its way to much for me. what do i uppgrade in the computer to make the turns take much less time. i have heard Civilization Req aloth of Memory. this is how my computer looks
motherboard -- : MSI 870A Fuzion, Socket-AM3
Core -- : AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Six Core, 2,8GHZ/3,3GHz Turbo, AM3, 9MB, 125W, Box
Memory -- : Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1333MHz 8GB KIT w/2X HyperX 2GB DDR3, CL9, 1.6v
Grapic 1 -- : Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 2GB GDDR5 -Demo PCI-Express 2.0,"TOXIC Edition", 2xDVI-I, HDMI, Di
Grapic 2 -- : Radeon HIS HD 5850 1GB PCI-E
Harddisk -- : Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
Power -- : 750 W

So help me and tell me what should i do to make the times MUCH less, Or is it even possible?

Answers would mean aloth to me and sorry for my english

 

[kiwitt]

I assume you are running Win 7 x64 as you have 8 GB of RAM. As Civ 4 is only single core aware, you are limited to have just one of your CPUs in your multi-core dedicated to the game.

One thing I did was remove my swap file and therfore everything is running in memory. BTS is LBA aware so it can access a full 4 GB of RAM, so with no swap file all that memory used is using physical ram as opposed to swapping some to hard disk.

It works for me. However, some programs require a swap file and will not work.

 

[yehozz]

Thanks for answering!

But how do i remove my Swap file? and like you say i cant use 8 GB on civ 4?

 

[yehozz]

So now i have Dissable Pagefiles, and i see that i saves around 1-3 sec when dissable the Swap. which is a good improvment but its not good enough. its kinda anoying that it only can use 1 Core? why havent someone Uppgraded or make a mod for it so that Civilization can use more cores? the possibilitys you can do whit more cores is endless. i mean whit 4 cores running it could probebly host 100 Civs? and how epic wouldent that be?

Please If anyone knows any tips or tricks i can do to make my turns go slower, share them whit me, at this moment it takes 4-8 sec in the begining every turn i want to make it to 1-2 sec! Thanks

 

[kiwitt]

You are worried about 4-8 secs. I played "Road to War" on an Athlon XP and turns took 5-10 minutes. My later Core i7, took that down to 20-30 seconds. When I play civ I am considering my next moves, while the AI processes its algorythms to make its next moves and 50 civs plus related units, is a lot of caculating. Be patient, if it did not process them the game would not be half as enjoyable.

BTW: There is always Civ 5, which can use up to 8 cores.

 

[yehozz]

I have a fast mind, i know what to do Instantly... so i am just waiting those sec and i lose aloth of gametime.... and yeah civ 5 is out ther but its not my kind of a game. i really hate the poor multyplayer, and that you cant play Earth online whit friends... i hope anyone find some way to make it use more cores!

 

[Black Mech]

Its not so easy to make a game support multiple cores when it was initially programmed to use only one. It would require tearing apart the game and rewriting large sections of it. It is alot easier to just optimize its ability to use that one core.