My turn time is around 5-10 minutes in late game. i have tried to make my map smaller. from huge 128x80 to 110x80. i cant go any more because the fun will be gone with even a smaller map. What do i have to change to make my pc get the power to drive this game fine? Here is my pc spec. Geforce GTX 1070. i5 4670k CPU 3.40 GHz. 8 GB RAM
You could overclock your CPU, but I think there's something strange going on. I did some testing a long time ago with late game/huge map and the turn times shouldn't be that long. https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/how-fast-can-turns-get.560832/page-2#post-14125992
Maybe your processor is throttling (because high temperature) or some other program is using it too much? You can use software like MSI Afterburner to check temps and CPU/GPU utilization.
Switching to strategic view and zooming as close as you can get before hitting next turn will make the turns slightly faster, but not much.
okey. i could check temperature i guess. the problem has been so for a very long time. and i have tried most of in game stuff to make the game faster. but the pc is slow on strategy games
i tried to boost my card with the msi program. but 1 civ took between 2-3 minutes and the rest of the turn went quick. the one slow civ is the biggest on map to.
Those sound more like high-ish idle temperature readings. Try monitoring temps and clock speed while running a stress test like prime95. Temperature should be around 40 degrees when idle and rise to ~90 degrees under 100% usage, assuming you have the stock cooler. With a good aftermarket cooler, maybe 70 degrees. CPU will start throttling if it goes over 100 degrees. https://www.mersenne.org/download/
There are instructions in the "CPU Stress / Torture testing" section.
The clock speed should be 3400MHz (=3.4GHz) when all four cores are used and even more if less cores are in use. If it stays below that when playing Civ and temperature isn't the problem, you can try disabling Intel's power saving features, like SpeedStep, in BIOS/UEFI. If temperature is the problem, it's time to clean the cooler.
Overclocking your graphics card probably doesn't help much. Maybe you were following GPU temps and clock speed (instead of CPU) in your earlier post before editing? It might be useful to try Intel's own Extreme Tuning Utility instead of Afterburner, since it is a bit simpler to use. In this picture, at the bottom, there's a bar that says 5 minutes http://www.majorgeeks.com/index.php?ct=files&action=file&id=15828
Set it to something longer, like 30 minutes, leave the program running and play a couple turns of Civ, then check the readings in the graph (maximum CPU core temperature and processor frequency + if there's any throttling), maybe post a screenshot. It also has a built-in stress test you can try.
When the first cpu line went up, then i was in the game. i took 3 turns, guess you can see that on the cpu line
After testing some turns again after the overclocking. the turn time is 1:40 and it runs better and more smooth. i will play some more and see if that can hold up
Just running the utility isn't overclocking yet, it's when you make the CPU clock speed go higher than the manufacturer has set. How about you run the stress test included in the Extreme Tuning Utility and take a screenshot when Test Time Remaining is around 1 minute. Select only the CPU Stress test. Default 5 minute test is enough.
Still, 1:40 sounds much more reasonable than 5-10 minutes.
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