Game is getting painfully slow

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I'm late in the game on a gigantic map with somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 planets colonized (colonized a bunch of 14, 13 and 12 class planets to get my alignment up). No though, whenever I try to adjust the spending sliders it takes about 10 to 15 seconds just to move the slider one tick. Also, it takes a painfully long time to clear the window in the lower right that shows what got completed that turn. Click on something, wait two seconds, eventually it starts moving faster but takes awhile. Are eitehr of this slowdown issues being addressed in the new release?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
How fast is your computer and how much memory do you have? This is the reason why the required specs for the game were so high :) I've got a 1.5 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM and I don't have those slow downs on Gigantic maps. Each turn can a while, but thats because of the hundreds of ships moving. Every time you adjust the sliders it makes the change on all of your planets. If you had your planet list showing on the right when you move the slider, you will see the turns left to build change. It's going to be slow unless you've got alot of processing power.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

As StBlasius has said, it does take awhile to refresh the planetlist when you have that many planets.  I can look into optimizing it more, but with that many planets I'm not sure how much I can optimize it.

The event list you should be able to clear by shift clicking on the first and last items in the list.  There's a bug in the currently available version where the items will come back the next turn, but using shift-click to clear them is still faster.

 

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