End of Turn Pauses

Actually - my apologies - this has nothing to do with the graphics (though I do still experience an FPS drop over cities), but it seems every time I click the End Turn button there a 2-5 second pause - the whole game freezes for that long, the turn 'ends' and things continue as normal. Is this... normal? Am I the only one experiencing the issue?

Early game? Late game? Got a save?

Once a lot of stuff is going on, some delay is possible in order to process the turn.

Try unchecking "Enable Auto Saves" under your Game options and see if that helps.

If it does, you can do quick saves using CTRL+S.

That seems to have reduced the end of turn pauses I was experiencing.  I would gladly trade a longer time between saves for not having to experience the pauses every turn.  So put that down on the wishlist - allowing a user to define the number of turns between saves.

Early game, mid and late game.

I'll load up a save tonight (embarassed to ask - but where again?)

I'll give that shot Gravedancer - but I mean this is EVERY turn, and the longer the game goes the longer the pauses. 

I'll try a brand new game tonight to verify I AM in fact seeing it all the time. But even with only 1000 moves in, should I really have to wait 5 seconds between turns? I know 5 seconds sounds like nothing but...

Thanks all!

I have been seeing the pauses between turns in 1.06 after a couple hundred turns on a Large map with 4 Ridiculous AI. The game actually stopped responding so if you clicked inside the window it'd pop up the Windows "This program stopped responding" error, but would go away after a few seconds when the game woke up. I haven't gotten to that stage in 1.07, though I did send Boogie the old 1.06 save and mentioned that was happening.

If you need to upload non-text files, please use drop.io.

Auto save currently saves every turn - so it's deleting a save file, renaming a save file, and then generating a save file.  In addition to all the end of turn processing that is taking place.

You could try doing a quick save (CTRL + S) to see if you notice a pause in the game while it's performing a quick save.  I see a noticeable pause in the game whenever I do it.  So it's definitely a contributor for me - but I'm running an old Pentium IV that should be put out to pasture so I expect it.

OK - so - at turn 100 I'm at a 3 second pause each time I press the next turn button. I have done next to no exploring, only one town, and a few monsters about. Maybe it's just me, and 3 seconds isn't a big deal - but in a game of thousands of turns, 3 seconds per turn+ adds up to a lot of wasted seconds. Save game below.

http://drop.io/m5ddvgh/asset/test-elesav

http://drop.io/m5ddvgh/asset/dxdiag-txt

Included my dxdiag too - just in case.

Turning off auto-save doesn't seem to have made any difference.

This has randomly happened to me. I created a new game and had 5 second pause between turns right off the bat, there was also a very long pause between clicking stuff on the map and the pop up i.e like combat, grabbing goodie  huts. I quit, started a new game and had no pauses, around 50 turns into it and good so far. My 600 turn game has around 7 second pause between turns, don't think I can continue with that kind of delay.

Auto-save made no difference for me either.

Good to know I'm not alone. And yes - I get the same pause for goody huts and the like. 

I'll try another new game, see if I get a difference. Again - 3 seconds or so may not seem like much, but after 500 turns you're looking at ~30 minutes of just waiting for the game to catch up with itself.

Also - not sure if this is my perception or not - but turning off sound seems to have helped - from 2.7 seconds or so per turn to closer to 2 per turn. THis also /seems/ to have made a difference with goodie huts - since I don't want for the 'jangle' to play before it pops up the message - the message seems to come much faster. Again though - this may be perception.

SO, now at turn 375 I'm up to almost 10 seconds per turn. 

I realize there is a lot happening per turn - but 10 seconds of waiting every time I hit 'End Turn' is quite a bit that adds up quickly. At this rate my earlier guess of 30 minutes for 500 turns is more like ~70 minutes or so of doing nothing.

http://drop.io/jnj7ypk4971/asset/test-elesav

Save file attached.

OK - just to add another voice to this issue.   I have the same problem.

I have a I7-920 CPU with 12 GB of memory - running on a Win Vista 64 Bit home edition.  This machine is fast. 

However, for each goody hut - and end of turn I am looking at a 4-6 second delay. 

It is late game - Turn 1166...  On a large Map.  

Love the game - but this is a little annoying. 

Bradley

Ok - I get the same issue as well - at the end of each battle.  The delay before the battle summary screen comes up - is approaching 3-4 seconds at the best (game at turn 1189) - and has been that way for many, many turns.

Bradley

My friend (a huge Civ player) noted that he sees the same thing in Civ - the computer is taking its turn, so thus a pause. Assumign this is what is happening (like Kryo said), perhaps, like Civ, you could put up a brief: Taking Turn: <So and So> for each faction that is part of the pause? That way at least I know something is happening.