I don't know what is doing it but my game crashed and when i opened task-manager the game was using over 2 gigs of ram never seen a game run that much ram before and the old versions did not get close to this.

I think it might be that the game does not stop siming the other stuff while in tac battles. One turn i moved on a quest with my last move, the turn auto ended, I finished reasearch/spell and something else i forget what. But the game proceeded to go to the quest but it took a very long time to load the battle and then it took over a minute to get out of it. When i did i had the spell pop-up waiting and a the research screen open too.

I'm running a

Win 7 32 bit

q6700 (quad 3.2)

4 gigs of ram (i know i should be using 86 bit but i have all my stuff on the 32)

Nvida 9800 GTX

(so i know my machine is beefy enough to run this game and i dont turn up the settings alot either)

It was a mid sized map with 2 opponents and one of them was dead so i don't think it was screen was zoomed way in when it had the huge performance drop too (showing about 4x4 titles).