Here is one of the auto saves

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/br835r5wxswlp3c/AAD_G6wsmfLOedo0OnsoZivDa?dl=0

Chris

No one has any idea --- Makes it very hard to play the game

Well it's probably not hardware-related. Is is this something that occurs on the very first turn? Try verifying files first.  Sometimes files get corrupted/overwritten by the Matrix. I've found this solves a lot of my Gal Civ issues.  Then try running the game with like 1-2 opponents and see if you can replicate.  Or.  Run with your current setup but lower the graphics a bit. Stuff like this helps narrow down the potential issues and helps the game wizards fix or address the issue. I know back in GalCiv 2 or 3 they identified a memory glitch/gremlin/jawa where the game wasn't freeing up memory and it didn't matter how much horsepower you had - eventually you'd run out and the game would hang or crash.

Or it could be another app running in the background. Something conflicting with Gal Civ.  Doubt it but once you eliminate all the other stuff.........

The issue where the game "hangs" during an AI's turn has been repeatedly reported in this forum.  The first screen snapshot below shows that I reported this issue back on July 16, 2021 and there are other posts from other players reporting the same issue.  While I recognize the right of the devs to prioritize the issues that they are going to work on, I think it is disingenuous to pretend that tchchr's post is something new.  While it does not happen in every game I play, it does happen in the majority of the games.  When it does happen, it seems like it happens multiple times within about a 20 turn period of time.

When it does happen, the only thing you can do is kill the process running the game, restart the game, load the most recent save, and continue playing from there.  This is why I set the "Auto-Save" option "on" and set the "Turns Before Auto-Save" option to "1".  By doing that, I lose as little progress as possible.  I also try to remember to save the game at the end of every turn before clicking on the icon to move to the next turn.  I have also found that, when I restart the game and load the most recent save file, the game does not hang on the same AI on the same turn.  That makes it useless to send you a save file, since I have not been able to make the game hang on demand.

With all due respect to the people working on the game, this issue has been in the game for at least a year and a half and it is the kind of issue that will cause many new players to believe that the game is not ready for prime time.  I believe that issues like this that affect players perception of the quality of the game software should be at the top of your priority list.  This is just my opinion, but I believe you created this forum because you wanted to get feedback from players so please take this post as well-intended feedback from someone who has been playing this game since the first test version was released and who has submitted many posts reporting issues that need to be addressed.  The fact that I have been playing and posting for so long should indicate that I love the game and my motivations are for you to make it better.

I am playing with  8 opponents --- I am in year 2328. The drengin just declared war on me and every slowed down sometimes taking 2+ hours for the drengin to finish there turn

Chris

I'm posting this observation here as it might relate to the game "hanging" being caused by AI turns.  I sent a few assault ships to a Mimot planet to teach them a lesson.  While the ships were enroute, they surrendered and turned their planets over to the Drengin. Whom I was at peace with.  When my assault ships arrived with a few moves left, I got the message, "fleet has no trade ships" or something like that.  I hit enter. Nothing. Enter. Nothing.  I hit enter 3 more times and boom - the screen went away and my ships were in orbit.  I'm thinking if ships are going to a location and something happens while they're enroute, they will eventually be prevented from reaching their destination.  They will all then need to expend their remaining movement before the game returns. With 2-3 assault ships, not a problem.  When you have the entire Mimot hoarde trying to reach a location that is now out of range, then you got a problem Houston. 

As far as I can tell at the moment, this is not so much a stuck turn as the fact that the game is choking the AI planning threads.  I noticed that there are LOT of resources in this game, more than I thought was possible to achieve with the settings. Did you mod the game to get that many? The AI planning threads are getting stuck trying to update all its starbase plans to find the perfect position to get as many resources in its AOE as possible.  I'm still working on a solution.