I am going MAD

[dathug2pac]

After two weeks of trying evrything i have read on this site i finally give up. I have run the SRL and everything checks out. My results are below. I can not understand why my system freezes up for around 20 seconds at a time while playing on even small maps. I can not even finish a game on the Duel map. I have no idea what is wrong. I have the latest patch and i installed all the recent drivers on my computer. COuld it strictly be my Video card?
CPU
Minimum: Pentium 4 or Athlon XP
You Have: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz PASS
CPU Speed
Minimum: 1.2 GHz
You Have: 3.07 GHz Performance Rated at 4.60 GHz PASS
System RAM
Minimum: 512 MB
You Have: 1.5 GB PASS
Operating System
Minimum: Windows 2000/XP
You Have: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) PASS
Video Card
Minimum: 64 MB 3D Video Card with Hardware Transform & Lighting (NVIDIA GeForce2+ / ATI Radeon 7500+)
You Have: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (GeForce FX 5200) PASS
Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 32 MB , You have - 128.0 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes


Video Card Driver Version (DirectX)
Your driver version number is: 6.14.10.9371 FYI: Make sure you have the latest driver for your video card. Click 'Free Driver Update' and we'll direct you to your video card manufacturer.
DirectX Version
Minimum: DirectX® version 9.0c (included) or higher
You Have: 9.0c PASS
Sound Card
Minimum: Yes
You Have: Creative SB Audigy PASS
Sound Card Driver Version
Your driver version number is: 5.12.4.1196 FYI: Make sure you have the latest driver for your sound card. Click 'Update Driver' and we'll direct you to your sound card manufacturer.
Free Disk Space
Minimum: 1.7 GB
You Have: 84.4 GB PASS
CD
Minimum: 4X Speed CD/DVD-ROM
You Have: JLMS XJ-HD166S PASS, but the Speed could NOT be analyzed.

 

[crunch]

OK. Your problem if I understand it correctly, that civ freezes for ~20 seconds.. and then everything continues normally. Right?

What happens with the music while the game is frozen? Is it playing or not? In either case, try to disable sounds completely in the ini file: EnableAudio=0.

Try to run the game in a window (Fullscreen=0) and open a Windows Task Manager (via Ctrl+Alt+Del, Task Manager) in the Processes tab. Sort the processes by "CPU". Is there anything weird to be seen? E.g., some process suddenly consuming 99% of cpu or so?

Have you tried smaller resolutions, details level, experimenting with some other graphics options?