I also get slow down with the beta on this rig.
Meduim Galaxies.
Nine players
I still think the slowdown is caused by some of the ship jewelry, because my computer frap rates crash when i try to apply specific ones on my ships, so i figure if any of the comps are using jewelry that create that to happen on just a single ship, multiple ships could be the reason for the massive slowdown. The slowdowns only occur after attack ships are begining to be produced. Who knows

I try to play with AA on 2, but i still experience this problem when lowering every requirement, and forced to play the game in tactical mode.

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
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Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs)
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Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS


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Current Display Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (72Hz)
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Driver Version: 6.14.0010.9371
Driver Date: 10/22/2006 12:22:00
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes

"I have a custom race with the Altarian Resistance ship style and mostly stock ships from that style. Most of what I've customized is "tactical" stuff, not jewelry."

You may not have jewelry on your ships, but the AI ships do consist of jewelry that may cause thsi slowdown. i dunno!

I sent an e-mail but here is the file containing three ship jewelry that cause massive slowdown jsut by themselves on the ship design screen, while I also inserted a ship design with multiple jewelry on it that causes absolutley no slowdown. Hope this helps!

http://files.to/get/420891/43052/GalCiv2_Lag_Ship_Designs.zip

If you need more examples of ship jewelry that causes this, I can easily go through all the ship parts, all I have to do is practically select the piece and watch my computer stop :/

I e-mailed the ship files with the shipcfg, didn't see this before hand though.


I cannot reproduce the same jewelry causing the slowdown, but it seems kind of random sorts of jewelry will cause this problem in a game, its different every time i restart. wierd, this may be just my problem?

Frogboy,

Possible. It doesn't happen until the AI starts spamming fleets all over the place. In my current game I will try to make a note at what point it starts and make a saved game at that point.

CodeCritter,

If you need my ship.cfg files let me know in email. I had just zipped up my saved game file.