Do have a dual core processor. If so that could be the problem if you get "spining." If that is the case you need a driver update and to go into task manager while your playing and tell GC to just use 1 core.
Loss of racial traits Go ahead and hit clear to get to your race defaults. I like using the thalan empire to see the effect. You get 40+ loyalty by default if you click on "abilties" you have two unspent points. If you put 1 of those points into Loyalty-"mostly faithful," instead of you total loyalty becoming 50% it changes to 10%. And that is what you start the game as. So the prob is, this stop people from spending ponts in loyalty with the thalan and yor collecti
