Unique lag issue

[chaosthebomb]

I did a quick search through the forums but couldn't find anything related to this issue im having. When I'm in BtS and click on one of adviser screens, such as the civilization civics or financial adviser, the game will freeze for around 10 seconds. The menu will then load and run smoothly as it should. This lag also happens whenever I try to communicate with another civilization. The game will pretty much stop for 10seconds.

I've played Civ4 for years now, on my old desktop and my previous notebook and had no issues in any of the civ4 games. The normal version of the game works fine as well as warlords. and BtS works fine till I try click on one of those menus or meet another civilization, and its not just the first time I click on it, its every damn time no matter how recently I had the menu open.

I've updated directx, I have the latest drivers installed. I'm running win 7 pro x64, I was running windows 7 ultimate x86 and had the same problem there. The notebook I'm on is an Asus M70Vm.

Anyone ever experienced this? or more importantly know how I can fix it?'

Thanks!

 

[Orrie]

I'm having the same lag issue as you.

I'm not sure if this is right, but having Task Manager running on my 2nd screen, I see BTS memory usage goes up to ~500Mb Memory, then drops to 80Mb.
After that it jumps to 120Mb and drops again to 80Mb over and over again.

The performance of the game doesn't seem to have an reaction to this, but I'm not sure if this is normal?

I'm also using Windows 7, but x86.
I've also disabled Windows Aero, running with admin right and having compatibility with WinXP.


The game is still playable, but it gets annoying on some turns when 3-4 of the AI Players tries to trade with you...


EDIT://

I came over this in the Windows 7 + Civ experience thread:

open civilizationIV.ini for the game you are using and set hidemoviebackground from 0 to 1 - does that help at all?

It will fix the lag issue completly, but you wont be able to see the world map while going through the menu panels, or talking to AI players, etc.
But it works