The game goes very slowly...

[Lux_93]

I really enjoy playing very big Earth maps (such as the huge Earth map of the RoM Mod) but I have a seroius problem. When the game is in its initial phases the time between the turns is very short but then as the game developes it grows incredibly and it becomes boring to wait this time (changing turn could cost even more than 2 minutes) !. I have got a computer with very good performances: an Intel processor with 2.67 GHz and 8 GB of RAM Memory.
Another problem less important is that when I start Civilization, since the first time, it says to me that I have selected an "unusable voice capture device" and that the "voice capture (is) desabled". I don't kwon if there is connection between the two phenomena.
What should I do?
Thank you very much.

 

[StargazingDog]

A huge map with many civs will eventually take an insane amount of time between turns, regardless of your CPU and memory. Using a mod likely adds to the processing time. There is nothing you can do about this.

As for your second problem, in the game, go to the options under sound. Select an appropriate device in the voice settings. If you don't use the voice feature, you may as well disable the voice chat option while you are there.

 

[Lux_93]

The box in which I should select the appropriate device is empty and I don't kwon how to disable the device...

 

[Berzerker]

bummer, are you sure nothing can be done to speed it up? No options or graphics that can be set to minimize the process?

 

[StargazingDog]

The slowdown will not be graphics related. It is almost strictly CPU based AI calculations causing the slowdown in large map games.

 

[ori]

I wouldn't necessarily agree with that - video ram can be a bottleneck as can be RAM

@Lux 93 and Berzerker: could you post your dxdiag results file?

 

[Lux_93]

Operative System: Window 7 Professional 64 bit (6.1, build 7600)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Paging file: 2028 used, 14336 available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Thank you for your help.

 

[ori]

sorry for the late reply, unfortunately my online time is unpredictable due to moving...
please save the complete dxdiag file and attach it to a post - I am mostly interested in the graphics part...

 

[Lux_93]

Name: NVIDIA GeForce 250
Producer: nvidia
type of chip: geforce GTS 250
type dac: integrated ramdac
Total memoy: about 4077 MB
current modality: 1680 x 1050 (32bit) (60Hz)

main driver: nvd3dumx.dll, nvwgf2umx.dll, nvwgf2
Version: 8.17.11.9562
Date: 21/11/2009 04:34:54
Versione DDI: 10
Driver model: WDDM 1.1
If you need other information tell me.

 

[ori]

try this driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_197.13_whql.html
just checking: you are running the game with admin rights, correct?
and it is fully patched, correct?