Warlords-v2.13 bugs

[eric6mcconnaugh]

since installing v1.74 & v2.13, my opening movie in Warlords freezes, skips & starts. In addition, the music does the same while playing the game. And does anyone have a solution for late-game slowdowns!? I'm running XP Home, P4 w/HT, 2.8 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, and it sucks playing a Huge game because of processor slowdowns. I can't even play on Epic or Marathon speed because of the slowdowns. It's bad enough just at Normal. I'm considering upgrading with another 256 Mb, or a full 512 (depends on what I can afford). I maxed my virtual memory file on my hard drive, which helped a little bit. Unfortunately, by the 1600's, I have to do a save, exit, clean up, and reload if I've been playing for a number of turns and I have a Wonder about to finish. If I don't, the Wonder movie background comes up and freezes. Will more RAM help? Is there anything Firaxis can do with the code to help fix this?

 

[ori]

RAM will certainly help 512 MB are just what Windows alone uses so you are pretty much running on virtual memory and that is slow - also civ is notoriously bad in utilizing memory efficiently so go buy some
Yes there is something Firaxis can do and they did - but they require you to buy it (it is called Beyond the Sword ) and while it is not perfect it is much better in using less memory...
Your other problem might actually be due to the same thing (too little memory) you could try a lower resolution or tweaking the video settings in your civilizationIV.ini so that it uses less memory.