[Bug] [1.06] Game performance slows to a crawl after end turn is pressed.

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I've been playing a game and hit a spot where if I hit end turn the game slows to a crawl (scrolling the map becomes jittery, interacting with anything becomes impossible, and ending that turn is also impossible.  I originally started this game on my laptop in cloth map only mode, so I originally attributed the problem to a lack of memory/processing power.  I have since tested it on my desktop (Core i7 920, 6GB ram, 2x ATI HD5850's and Windows 7 64 bit) and I still have the exact same symptoms.  Here is the save game and debug.err

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10708002/debug.err

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10708002/Restart.EleSav

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Like alot of turn based games, as the game gets farther along it takes the computer a bit longer to process its turn. Now of course if this is persisting for more then a minute or so then perhaps there is a problem with the game on your machine.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

This isn't a slowdown due to the game taking longer later in the game.  I'm not a noob whose never played a turn based strategy game before.  It runs fine and turns run smoothly until a specific turn happens and the game for all intensive purpose locks (the frame rate gets ridiculously slow, scrolling the map is choppy, etc.) It never recovers from the slow speed no matter how long I wait.

Like I said in my original post, I've recreated the exact same problem on two separate machines that are running drastically different hardware configurations (one is a desktop the other is a laptop).  It seems to be something in that save game that is causing it to be like this.  I have since restarted a new game and have not seen the issue.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

This isn't a slowdown due to the game taking longer later in the game.  I'm not a noob whose never played a turn based strategy game before.  It runs fine and turns run smoothly until a specific turn happens and the game for all intensive purpose locks (the frame rate gets ridiculously slow, scrolling the map is choppy, etc.) It never recovers from the slow speed no matter how long I wait.

Like I said in my original post, I've recreated the exact same problem on two separate machines that are running drastically different hardware configurations (one is a desktop the other is a laptop).  It seems to be something in that save game that is causing it to be like this.  I have since restarted a new game and have not seen the issue.

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