Leaders popping up and slowing down the game

[iron_monkey]

Well I've searched this forum and can't find any other mentions of this so I'm wondering if it's just me or if other people are having the same problem? What problem? This one: -

Fairly late on in a game, say after 1600AD or so on a Large map (maybe even std but I only play large) a leader might pop up on my screen and ask for a tech or propose a trade or whatever...most of the time it's fine. But occasionally the second they appear the terrain goes dark...now I don't know if this is the "black terrain" thing I've been hearing about but I wouldn't describe it as that. It's just dark and creepy looking...the game grrrrinds along at snail's pace from then on and the only way out of it is to save, quit and reload.

I've got an ATI Radeon 9600 running Catalyst 4.12, Civ 1.52 (although the problem occured in 1.0 and 1.09) and have 512MB RAM and a 3GHz processor.

So...am I alone in this problem? Does anyone know the fix?

 

[iron_monkey]

Bump. Has nobody even seen this? Just seems weird that I've had it in all versions of the game.

Also, has anyone tried any different settings for Hark's fix since 1.52 that might make the game run smoother? Are we still generally using 1.2.2.0 of zlib1.dll or is 1.2.3.0 ok to use again?

 

[EdwardTeach666]

I havent had a problem until the latest patch, but now when I play multiplayer games and go to the diplomacy screen there is a good chance it will crash causing my computer to restart.