in CIV 6 AI Turn speed performance very slow

[Bismarck359]

Hello I start to play CIV 6 and I see that AI is very slow I wait about few minutes between turns I play on huge map graphic are OK and fast, just turn speed is problem on my PC

My Rig is Lenovo ThinkCentre M58 with Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, 12 GB DDR3, Radeon R9 270 2GB, SSD as OS HDD, Win 10 x64

 

[Gedemon]

Seems pretty fast if I compare to civ5, but I've not tested a full game yet so I don't know how it performs in the late game.

 

[Bismarck359]

My date is now just 2680 BC...

 

[greygr]

too slow for game w/o mods. biggest map / marathon / i7@4.4Ghz / 8Gb DDR3 / SSD for OS an for Game
even first turns require 10-15 sec. and what should I see @ 500th turn with many mods? 5 to 10 mins between turns? LOL

 

[Bismarck359]

this gonna be a big problem! Seems that CIV 6 devs play game on Pentagon grade military computer LOL

 

[GoRniC]

Very slow for me, so i do worry about getting to late game. Hopefully it will be one of the things they optimize in one of the first patches.

 

[ddd123]

I dont get where is the fun in a huge map anyway, performance seems much much improved compared to civ5, at least on my machine.

 

[agonistes]

too slow for game w/o mods. biggest map / marathon / i7@4.4Ghz / 8Gb DDR3 / SSD for OS an for Game
even first turns require 10-15 sec. and what should I see @ 500th turn with many mods? 5 to 10 mins between turns? LOL

Turn time was a bit annoying for me too, at first, but I got used to it. At 370+ turns in, biggest map marathon, maybe 10 opponents (?), I don't see the turn time getting any longer. So far.

I believe you can open windows and such during the AI turns, to pass the time. Like the city screen, tech tree, and so forth. I *believe*. I seem to recall doing this last night. But I'm a bit tired this morning.

 

[Ryika]

Faster than Civ 5, slower than Beyond Earth.

At least most of the AI works during processing, so checking cities and stuff can be done during the waiting period.

 

[Xyriach]

I was actually impressed with how fast it was.

But I play on a machine built to do VFX so it's got a fair amount of punch anyway.

Just installing on my Surface Pro which I suspect will be more revealing in terms of fair comparison.

 

[greygr]

Turn time was a bit annoying for me too, at first, but I got used to it. At 370+ turns in, biggest map marathon, maybe 10 opponents (?), I don't see the turn time getting any longer. So far.

I believe you can open windows and such during the AI turns, to pass the time. Like the city screen, tech tree, and so forth. I *believe*. I seem to recall doing this last night. But I'm a bit tired this morning.

How long is the turn after 370+ ?

 

[agonistes]

How long is the turn after 370+ ?

Jeez, man, I dunno, it was 2am. Had to be up at 6am for work. So I went to bed.

edit: and I'm 43 years old (I think), not some college kid who needs 1 hour of sleep to function.

 

[ls612]

It appears that currently the ai is somewhat multithreaded. I have seen a couple times in the benchmark civ 6 using 95% of the CPU.

 

[esoba]

Yes the turns are slow, but if they bother you make sure to turn on quick moves and turn on quick combat. That does wonders for turn times.

 

[Thadius McGhee]

Anyone still having this issue? I'm waiting 7+ minutes AFTER the AI's are finished @ 285 turns using a well tuned gaming rig

 

[agonistes]

At 700 turns in on a 4 year old comp, turns are 20 minutes, but most of that is *my* turn. On giant earth map.

The time eater is barbarians. If you can stomach playing without them, turn them off. Turn times will drop drastically.

 

[Thadius McGhee]

I never play using barbarians. System usage is at 66% on a 3.97Ghz quad-core, and 25-33% out of 8G RAM and a raptor HD. Game is the only program on the PC on a fresh install of Windows 10

 

[Furycrab]

I never play using barbarians. System usage is at 66% on a 3.97Ghz quad-core, and 25-33% out of 8G RAM and a raptor HD. Game is the only program on the PC on a fresh install of Windows 10

I play on a slower system than that (although 16 gb ram) with Barbs on, and on a standard map I can get upwards of a minute late game which is slow, but I'm running on the extreme low end of things and been meaning to upgrade since I think the CPU and GPU are 4-5 years old. Don't ever get anywhere near 7 minutes you describe (but I suspect I could get really long turn times if I pushed the map size and graphic settings). Are you trying to run this on a non-gaming laptop by chance? It's rare, but the GPU could be your bottleneck.

 

[Thadius McGhee]

Custom built rig. ASUS MoBo, AMD Phenom chip, 670 2GB video card

 

[Art Morte]

I haven't found turn times to be a problem and my CPU is the very average i5 4570 running at 3.4Ghz.

Then again, I only play standard size maps as I don't find bigger maps to lead to better games.