Tiny freezes during Ship Combat, Anyone else?

from GalCiv2 Forums
Hello,

I'm fairly new to the game as of yesterday, and the only thing I've had a issue with (..which is annoying me) is the Space Battles that I like to watch seem to have lots of tiny freezes during them.

If it's just 1 vs 1, or 1 vs 2, it's ok.. however with say 6-7 ships fighting it has many tiny freezes, about 0.5 seconds each, but quite frequently, every 5 secs or so.. pretty random.

It's quite irritating as I'd like to watch it smoothly which I should be able too.
My system is very powerful, so it can't be a hardware lacking:

I'm running--
AMD 64 4200 X2 (Dual Core)
NVIDIA 7800 GT 256MB
2GB PC3200
Windows XP SP2

I only have a problem in these space battles, nothing else.
I also have installed the X2 Dual Core Drivers, Hotfixes etc, I even tried the game with Affinity on 1 core only, no change, so I don't believe it's the X2 Dual Core issue which is sticky on the forum.

Tried turning Anti-Aliasing off, no change.

Any ideas, anyone else get this same issue... ?

Thanks!
5,351 views 8 replies
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
1.0x didn't fix it for me. Not sure if it's video card, memory or processing. I only have 512 M ram, so since you're having it with 2 G, I don't think it's that...
SoundPackager - Customize the Windows sound scheme
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I only experienced pauses in the space battles when a ship blew up...I turned the show ship explosion off and it runs smoothly now.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
yeah, for a game like this 512 is lacking, because xp is such a memory whore, does anyone with a different OS and 512 memory finding it lagging?
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I used to have freezes but I have the solution.

Nvidia users do the following.

Right click on the NVIDIA ICON on your task bar near the clock.

Go to NVIDIA DISPLAY then what ever display monitor comes up which is your type. Mine was Packard bell analog display, your will differ slightly.

Click on it and NVIDIA options come up, select PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY SETTINGS on the left menu which comes up with it.

On the right it will come up APPLICATIONS PROFILES options. Below ACTIVE PROFILE select Galactic civilizations from the list.

If it is not there click MODIFY PROFILE then click browse and locate your GalCiv2.exe file then click open.

Now the execuitable file is in the list go back to APPLICATIONS PROFILES options, then click MODIFY PROFILE then MODIFY and select GalCiv2.exe from the list in front of you right now and click OK.

Then go back to APPLICATIONS PROFILES options, then click MODIFY PROFILE then SAVE AS then type Galactic Civilizations 2 then click OK.

Below ACTIVE PROFILE select Galactic Civilizations 2 and CICK APPLY at the bottom.

All the power from your video card will now be transfered to the game and make it run smoother.

Done

Happy wars.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the tip. I take it that after you make this setting it is only in effect so long as the application is running. Correct?
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Go to 1024 RAM, it cleaned it up for me as well...