Problem with saved game...

[CenturionV]

Ok i've just installed the latest conquests patch and in the first hour of play I'm already having problems (not a good sign) anyway I'm into the medievel age I've been player for about hour to hour 1/2 and for some reason the game has started lagging down all of a sudden when it waits at the end of eatch turn, its so laggy its totally unplayable.

The strange thing is that during the actual movement phase and in any menus/cities/advisors the game is working fine, once i finish moveing all the auto-selected units and it waits for me to end the turn (usually the time I actually use to play the game) it gets so bad I can't even scroll?!?!? what gives?

I've tried saving and reloading, restarting, spyware searches, all kinds of things, but it must be a problem with CIV because it works fine when I'm moving units and everything just when I wait at the end of the turn it screws up.

Civ3 has always run well on my computer (1ghz Athlon tbird geforce 3 TI200 32mb, 512 mb ram, plenty of HD space and all that) and I've player dozens of games with the exact setting I used in this one, but never have I had this problem.
any help?

 

[Adam7Eight]

Make sure you have no programs running in the background. If you do, turn them off. You can also run "msconfig" and modify what apps and other garbage start-up and run in Windows. Also, it's possible that your memory has crapped out too. Maybe you got a bad stick in there. You should aslo try cleaning up and defragging your hard drive. Do you have problems with any other games or apps, or is it just Civ? Are you playing on huge maps with a lot of civs? Generally, the bigger the map the slower the gameplay.

By the way, it wouldn't be a bad idea to upgrade that CPU and video card.

 

[CenturionV]

No this is the only time i've ever had a problem with civ and its the only time i've had a problem with a game for months, I defrag my HD every week and had my memory tested at the shop 2 months ago, I can play most other games without lag at high settings (including 3d games) easily, i'm playing on the same size of map i always play on (never happened in any of the dozens of other games i've played with the same settings before i patched, they all ran fine) This is not just your everyday, slowdown caused by losta units or civs, it seriously slows down so slow it takes 10-15 seconds to just right click on terrain (my old 450 mhz does not even get as slow as this on moderate size map with lotsa civs, late in the game), but it works fine untill it waits at the end of eatch turn, during the time I move my autoselected units there is no lag at all, the second i finish giving out new builds orders and moving my units its like a sudden blast of lag. its very strange.

 

[Adam7Eight]

I don't know what to tell you man. I was going to ask if you changed anything in BIOS or any Windows performance settings. But since it's only doing it with Civ, well, that's odd. Have you added any mods to Civ or anything like that? Maybe try a re-install and see what happens? I don't know.