Improving performance?

[Gary King]

What action can I take to improve the BUG mod's performance? Civ 4 is already slow as it is for me, and the BUG mod has slowed it down even more, but I still think it's useful, so I'd like to keep it if possible.

 

[phungus420]

The simplest and most productive way is to turn off the PLE (plot list enhancements) options.

 

[EmperorFool]

Or disable a few of its elements, such as the movement bar, upgrade indicator, mission tags, and promotion frame--whichever you can live without.

Also, save and restart BTS when you notice it getting slower. Some people say just ALT + TAB to get out and back in does it for them. On the System tab, make sure that the file logging level is Warning instead of Debug.

 

[Gary King]

I tried those suggestions, and the performance is about the same still, so it's still pretty bad. When I run Civ (I'm on a Mac), my computer also builds a 2 GB swap file (I've got 2 GB of RAM), and the game is still really slow. Slow, meaning that during the Modern period, it can take 30 seconds sometimes for a turn to complete, when I'm playing with 6 AI on a Standard map. That doesn't sound right to me. I'm sure that the performance has gotten worse after installing BUG, so any other suggestions are welcome. What I find the most appealing in BUG is the Advanced Scoreboard, so I'd like to keep that at the very least if possible.

 

[EmperorFool]

BUG doesn't do much of anything while the AI is making its moves. Have you played a non-BUG game (horror!) into the modern era and seen better AI turn times?

On thing that might help a little is to disable all of the Python callbacks in XML/PythonCallbacks.xml. Set them all to 0 (except doPillageGold I think) as non-modded games don't use them.