Minor question on performance

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I had a question for those who have played some of the larger maps. Has any of your experienced performance issues (ie delays of a couple seconds, a morality choice where it takes several seconds for the "done" button to appear, etc)

I have an Athlon XP 1700 with 512mb ram, so I'm wondering if people with similar systems notice this. Is there anything I can do to perhaps alleviate the performance hit (aside from playing smaller maps)

Thanks much
SeanB
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
yes, I have an Athlon XP 1900 with 512mb ram, and I also get some slowdown later on in the game when special events happen. The longest delay was about 30 seconds. This is on a huge galaxy
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes I noticed it every 10 or so turns at first, I now strongly suspect its due to the autosave, since I hate stupid game ruining random events I have set this to save every game to allow reloads and this causes a noticable delay up to 5 seconds between each turn.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I played a Gigantic Map game over the weekend and experienced some extremely severe slowdowns. My CPU is a 1.33 Gig with 512 Megs of RAM. I found that exiting completely out of the game every thirty turns or so provided a significant performance boost.

I also lost my autosavegame and the previous autosave a couple of times and had to replay 100 or more turns--very frustrating. I'm probably not going to play another Gigantic game for a while. :(
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks for the feedback. I might play with the autosave some and see if that helps out.

SeanB