Re: turn speed
The reason why the speed boost was canceled was that it turned out not to work at all. Getting CTD when starting the game kind of rendered any theoretical improvements moot and it turned out to be unfixable.
Now, I have no idea why you are having such trouble with the speed. I've not had problems with Dom3 at all. Faerun 466 with 20 nations hosts turns in around a minute or so even on turn 50, but the machine has Core2Duo E6600 (so 2½ years old) and 2 GB RAM on an Asus P5B Deluxe mobo.
Does your machine have everything updated as it should? BIOS, hardware drivers (mobo drivers are especially important for this) etc? Is the machine cleaned regularly from extraneous crap (CCleaner, defragging etc)?
The reason it sounds so strange is because even with my old machine, which was a 500 MHz Celeron on a literally lightning blasted motherboard with literally crumbling coils and shot equipment, I didn't get that bad performance out of the Dominions series games. That computer died just before Dom3 came out, but it ran Dom2 just fine and I could maybe hit a ten minute hosting time on it with Faerun 424 an all nations but Ermor on it. Granted that Dom2 is not Dom3, but your machine specs are such that you should be getting significantly better hosting times out of it.
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