Update: With cloth map only it starts chugging around 7 cities on a small map with 2 enemy factions.
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I'll give it a shot now. I tried it on my hexacore 3.0/12 gigs/windows 7/ati 5750 machine downstairs and it appears to be running fine (up to 3 cities, on a tiny map with 3 enemies).
My system specs are different, but should still be more than enough for a game like this, and I'm experiencing the same thing. The game is barely playable, and generally I just quit by about turn 200 or so because the longer the game goes on, the slower it gets. Something to do with all the AI work in the background or something?
So I held out for a long time for 1.1, then finally caved and purchased Elemental. Unfortunately, it runs horribly slow after 15 mins or so on my gaming laptop. *Vista/Dual Core 2.1x2/4gb ram/GeForce 9800M GTS w/ latest drivers I haven't had any problems running any of my other usual games on this machine - is the .3ghz I'm off on the system requirements (although I assume that is for a single core system) really that big of a deal, or does the game really run this poo