Huge/Gigantic Galaxy

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

What is the spec of your machine? I am playing Gigantic at the moment and am in the late stages but it takes about 15 seconds to perform a turn.

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.

I've played a gigantic map with 10 civilizations and the turns took a minute at most to complete. Granted the AI was set to simple (which may have plenty to do with that)...

I've noticed that GalCiv 2 eats up a lot of memory as it runs on... and gets slower and slower and slower and eventually crashes...

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

That's what I was thinking. How much RAM did it come with?

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 a few times and never had much slow time problems. There were a few turns in the late game that took a while (less than a minute) but it was because I had a sensor ship that could see most of the galaxy.

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.

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Edna

No probs playing gigantic on my XP2100 with 1GB ram. Slow as can be on my P4 2.66gig laptop with 512MB ram (though onboard graphics probably don't help).

Upgrade ram to 1GB if necessary.
Increase paging filesize to 2GB...
Make sure no nasties are running in the background ... I had GC2 slow to a halt once - discovered Diskeeper was doing a defrag AND Norton AV was virus scanning at the same time as I was playing GC2!

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.

Tiem between turns is mostly due to the fact the game moves each ship/fleet of the player seperately, while I seen em move AI ships together. So in the latter part of the game when my ships have 24+ speed, it takes a long time to move 80 ships 24 spaces

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.

I play on gigantic with a P4 2.4 and 1 gig of memory. Turns at end game take 10-15 seconds as well.

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.