I play on a .... integrated intel 3000. Yep. It's a sandy bridge i5 macbook pro in bootcamp. I have the same issue... the game runs perfectly smooth for like the first 50 turns. Then... SUDDENLY (not gradually), the game gets very very laggy. It's not really a drop in FPS... it feels more like when your hard drive is thrashing because you ran out of RAM. I think this is an optimization problem for t
I see a few replies to my OP about how "you need to make a strategic choice / guns or butter", and i get it. But there really isn't anything strategic about this choice... the time for "guns" is obvious, as well as the time for "butter". Unfortunately, this plays out like how most 4x games do. You nation build when no one is being aggressive towards you, and you switch to war as soon as someone goes to war against you. If you are playing any large map with many opp
Hey guys, Just pre-ordered a few days ago. I'm sure that this game will be the great successor to galciv2 and i couldn't wait to try it now. I've been frustrated with 2 things that have a huge effect on gameplay: 1) Can't make a building AND a unit at the same time, and you need to build buildings and grow your towns if you want to WIN (forcing you to ignore units) 2) Civilization tech tree is really important