Tech support advice for older system

memory leak?

from GalCiv2 Forums
I really enjoy the game, but I tend to only play shorter games on medium sized maps or smaller. The reason is, I have a 4 year old PC (cutting edge at the time) and after about an hour of gameplay, things slow down to a crawl. Occasionally it gets so bad the game almost locks up (2 minutes to respond to ALT-F4), and once or twice I got a warning message about too much system memory in use. A reboot usually helps greatly.

So.... is there any one thing about the game (maybe in graphics settings) that is a real memory hog? Perhaps disabling some fancy schmancy graphics might lower the system resource requirements. Any advice is appreciated, thx!
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Turn the graphics options off, and post a debug.err so we can get some system specifics.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You could always switch to tactical view and play there. Just zoom out or lower the tactical zoom setting to a smaller number. The graphics get replaced with icons and the game works pretty normally, with a few minor annoyances thou. It's how I play most of my larger games on my old laptop.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My computer was bought autumn 2002. It costed 2600 euro at that time, and the only problem with my computer was with Oblivion.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oblivion is a beast even after doing a bunch of tweaking.