Leader Screens / Adviser Windows open super slow in Windows 7

[HardCoder]

I installed the no-DRM direct2drive Civ ultimate (or whatever the pack with vanilla/warlord/bts/colonization is called) on my new W700 a few days ago. This is a pretty serious Lenovo "laptop" with discrete graphics, 4GB ram, a 2GHz quad core CPU, etc. It's running an up to date 64 bit Windows 7.

I also have the same set of Civ installed on my desktop machine here, which is a small form factor Lenovo machine running Vista 64.

It runs great on the Vista machine. Nooooooo problems.

The W700's graphics are considerably better than those in my desktop (graphics WEI of 6.7 on the W700) and the responsiveness in the game is fantastic at 1920x1200. But ... the leader screens and the adviser screens take a long time to open up. As in, 5-20 seconds from the time you click on a leader's name until the window with the talking head shows up. Same deal with the city adviser and all the other things that open up windows.

Any theories?

 

[titansfan9]

I noticed this same problem with my game. I updated my drivers and that seemed to help a lot. I suggest trying that first. Good luck!

 

[HardCoder]

"Updated my drivers" isn't super specific. :-/

 

[ori]

could you post your dxdiag results file?

 

[titansfan9]

True...

I recently had my computer serviced and my graphics card updated to an EVGA e-GeForce 8400 GS that surpasses all graphic requirements for the game. However, my leader screens and adviser screens were opening extremely slowly. So, I visited EVGA's website and searched around for any driver updates that were available for my card. Sure enough, there was an updated driver available, so I downloaded it and installed it. When I opened up Civilization again, the adviser and leader screens opened up much more quickly, so I credited the solution to the driver I downloaded.

So, I suggest you find out what type of graphic card you have, visit the manufactures website, and search around for any possible updates for your drivers.