How to speed up turns in the late game

[JACKDOGBOB]

Hey all,

So recently I have been playing 43 civ games on Gedemon's giant earth for YnAEMP. I have a 2012 model macbook air that I play this on. As you can imagine, as the game progresses, turns become excruciatingly slow. In fact, many times my game just crashes all together. Since I love playing Civ on this map it is obviously very frustrating for me. So I have a few questions about this. 1) How/can I upgrade my existing computer to process turns faster? 2) Is this something I can fix with mods? 3) Should I just get a new computer all together? I love the game, but recently the long turn times have become a pain. Also, what's the fastest one of you guys can process 43 player's turns? Thanks

 

[sendos]

My first question to you is how you managed to in all 43 civs into the game? I can only get half that number.

My answers to your questions:
1) Turn on fast movement and fast combat before you start the game in the options section.
2) Not sure.
3) If you still wish to play 43-civ games and the first answer doesn't help, maybe.


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[joncnunn]

#1 way to speed things up whenever they start getting slow is to switch to strategic map view; it's not your main computer processor that's the bottleneck; it's instead the video card processor.

 

[goodolarchie]

Quick combat and Quick movement. There's actually a mod that turns this on-and-off for AI turns so you can bask in the splendor of watching a tank disappear after a volley of arrows.

 

[phillipwyllie]

Civ5 is mostly a single threaded game where each AI calculation must be done in sequence. Late game the AI will have amassed a lot of units, which the AI is compelled to move each and every turn. Turning on Quick combat and Quick movement will help, but not much as you've got 43 civs to wait for.

 

[danaphanous]

#1 way to speed things up whenever they start getting slow is to switch to strategic map view; it's not your main computer processor that's the bottleneck; it's instead the video card processor.

yep. This is my strategy too. You don't have to leave it on on your turn. But if waiting for all the AI takes forever:

#1 turn on quick combat and movement
#2 turn on strategic view right before you end your turn (it won't let you mid-AI turns)

this way things still look nice on your turn. The only downside is you might miss some missionaries or or sneaky AI units, but the strategic view has clear markers for units too so maybe not once you get used to it. Switching to strategic view quickly when it starts lagging and stuttering often will prevent the app from crashing too. Swapping back and forth is a good strategy. Good luck!

I found that giving my computer more RAM helps with multithreading applications like Civ V and RAM is cheap. I'm guessing you bought yours with default amount? It should be easy to double it and the RAM in macbooks is easy access meaning you can order and do it yourself in a couple minutes. I upgraded my 2011 from 4 GB to 8 GB and Civ V ran a lot better. This will allow your computer to hold more in active memory meaning it doesn't have to waste as much time loading new threads or switching as much. (Note RAM is not processing power, it just is the processors "active memory" allowing it to suspend operations for quick access. For big games it actually makes a huge difference though.)