Slow like about 1 frame every 2 or 3 seconds. Colors bad like city areas of influence mostly black and most of the rest of the strategy map murky gray.
Could this be related to the out-of-memory crashes ? Alt-esc out and task mgr says Elemental's mem usage is 1,032,456.
XP sp3, 32-bit, 3gb ram. 512mg ati 5670. Intel core-2-duo.
debug.err http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/debug-slowdown.err
most-recent save http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/QuickSave%20slowdown.EleSav I think it was a bit before the problem started.