Slower performance

[Mcclaud]

Hi.

There seems to be a problem with Civ 4 that seems to slow it down heavily in the later part of the game, however, I thought that with the specs below, it would prevent that...

It didn't. The specs are:

Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor (2 CPUs) - 3.4 GHz
RAM: 4GB
HDD: 630 GB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700

Anyone know how to fix this slow performance?

Thanks.

 

[simonjphillips]

I need help on this as well.

 

[viator]

Hi.

There seems to be a problem with Civ 4 that seems to slow it down heavily in the later part of the game, however, I thought that with the specs below, it would prevent that...
Anyone know how to fix this slow performance?

Thanks.

You might look into this discussion:

UPDATE 2 SEPTEMBER 02

Thinking about drjones' remarks in the ROM-thread:

Well it is both, as far as I can see the Mod expands the memory needed to run civ to the point that before 64bit it was swapping out a lot to the HD which causes major slowdowns. I would assume the mod could be adjusted to not use as much RAM, but that would require removing functionality and features in all likelihood so that does not seem like a fix to me. Given that games expand as time goes by the 6gigs I have now might not be enough after a while, or there might also be CPU bottlenecks on some functions.

Under Vista you can create a socalled "READYBOOST MEMORY" by changing (a portion) of fast memory in the property-window of that memory
In my case I used an usb-stick. It has to be FAST (at least USB2) or it will not work: the ReadyBoost-tab will not even appear in the window !
I connected a 4Gb USB2-stick, changed it to ReadyBoost and suddenly everything works fine !!!
It turns out that in Vista the ReadyvBoost can also be used in the way drjones describes above.

There is a led in my usb-stick and I can clearly see the heavy activity as it needs this memory when I play CIV4-RoM-AND on High Grapics at 1680x1050. It even works great in a game fully developed after many turns!
By the way: same thing for other demanding graphics- or video-software
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[Lemon Merchant]

The game slows down for me as well.

My specs:

Phenom II X4 965 @ 4.26 GHz (Yes, it's liquid cooled.)
8 GB RAM
Radeon 5970
HD 2 x 256 GB SSD RAID 1
HD 2 x 1.5 TB

The late game slowdown is quite common. More so for maps larger than Standard.