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Windows/Video slow after playing

September 22, 2007 3:18:11 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
Whenever I play the game for a significant amount of time and then quit, Windows XP is really slow. The video especially takes a long time to update, and everything in general is sluggish. The only way to fix it is to restart windows. How do I avoid this?
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Reply #1 September 22, 2007 3:34:49 PM
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Same problem for me (DL1.5)
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Reply #2 September 22, 2007 3:50:01 PM
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I'm not sure about this, but I think what's happening is the game is consuming all the virtual memory and Windows is not freeing it up after the game closes. I think it's a Windows problem and not something that's necessarily the games fault. I used to experience this on an older machine with less memory, but my new machine has 2GB of physical memory and doesn't exhibit the problem. That doesn't really help you, but at least it gives you a possible reason why you have to restart.

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Reply #3 September 23, 2007 8:01:13 PM
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I'm not sure about this, but I think what's happening is the game is consuming all the virtual memory and Windows is not freeing it up after the game closes. I think it's a Windows problem and not something that's necessarily the games fault. I used to experience this on an older machine with less memory, but my new machine has 2GB of physical memory and doesn't exhibit the problem. That doesn't really help you, but at least it gives you a possible reason why you have to restart.




This is what I thought as well, but don't know how to stop it. I do have only 1 gig of RAM, but according to Windows, nothing is hogging my virutal memory after I exit. Not that Windows policing itself means much.

And yes Windows is a pig but no other game does it, so doesn't that imply it's galciv's fault?
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Reply #4 September 24, 2007 3:11:25 PM
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It may be the game consumes more memory than it should or the game is doing something that causes Windows to fail in releasing memory. So, yea, it could be the game's fault, but it still could be Windows not doing what it should. You would have to compare it to another data base intensive game like Civ4.

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