Yeah. But my time between turns wasnt that bad... you got stuff running in the background ?

Don't go thinking that age defines this (an older Alienware will probably outspec a more modern Dell, for example), but seeing how this was designed to be run on windows '98, this will be more than likely a lack of the proper software, or background programs crapping up stuff.

When you bought that pc, three months ago, it probably came with 512mb RAM. Which might not be enough.

on the plus side, if it is ram... ram is dirt cheap compared to almost any other computer part that can improve your performance

I play Gigantic with 9 other races on a modest Samsung X15 notebook with 512mb RAM.

Although over 1Gb Swap File is used in the late game, the turns don't take that long.

I think no more than 20 seg wich is perfectly acceptable.

However two things may have a great impact in those results. One is that I prefer to play with Rare Habitable planets and I think this setting slow things a bit.
Also I normally declare war against very militaristic races to clear out their overwhelming number of ships when the grow too much in numbers. This gameplay behavior helps to make it run smoothly in the late game.

Kisses from Portugal...
Edna

BTW, new computer system nowadays have bad graphic cards (or even worse - integrated graphic cards)

It's because they don't expect everyone to be a gamer, so there might be a problem when one actually wants to play a modern game.

So far I've played every game on gigantic maps and near the end turns take a "little" longer but only about 10-15 seconds.

My machine is about 4 years old. P4 2.0 768 RAMbus ATI 9600.

If you want the turns to go a bit faster in late game gigantic maps, zoom all teh way in before you hit turn. One of the things that can take along time is watching all the ships move. If you are zoomed in then the computer dose not desplay the moves and you save alot of time.