way to speed up late game turn processing ?

[Will]

In my experience, the processing of the turns is rather fast, even on computers with modest specs. It's the combat that kills it. I've had turns where I'm pretty sure there was absolutely no combat around mid-game, and it takes five seconds to process everything. Then when there is several battles on the next turn, it can take longer, depending on the size of the battles. I remember waiting ten minutes for a turn after I had arranged for a few large AI fleets to... stumble... onto a few fleets of mine. And send in a few planetary-capture fleets.

[Renegade 13]

Oh man, let me tell you, 20 seconds is NOTHING. Nothing at all. I'm on turn 167 of a 255 system, 10 AI, TDM Modpack game. Turns take about 5 minutes to process. And I had a game that took about 10-13 minutes to process each turn. And I have a good computer!!

[Kamog]

Yeah, I spend a lot of time staring at the "Player X taking turn..." screen. Sometimes I read a book or magazine while the turns are processing. I tried doing other stuff on the computer like reading this forum, by using ALT-TAB to switch to another program, but sometimes SEIV crashes when I do this so I no longer attempt that.

I used to play SEIV on a Pentium I - 233 MHz and it was SLOW! While I wait for the turns to process I'd eat meals, take showers, brush my teeth, make phone calls, do all sorts of stuff. Last year I upgraded to a 800MHz computer which I'm using now, and it's much faster (compared to before). But I'm hoping to buy a more up-to-date machine by the time SE5 comes out next year.

[BlackRose]

Turn any of the following off:

Mines
Fighters
Sattelites

Basically any extra thing that the AI builds tonnes of.

I'm a bit early in experimenting with it but with no MINES I notice a huge difference in the Turn speeds. The others seem less so, but still noticable.

[Atrocities]

Defeat a few of the lessor AI players and the game speed will improve.

Play not using an FQM map - go standard
Do not save every turn, save manually or do it once every 3 or more turns.

Run the AI turns and see if there are any bottle necks.

[Q]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Yeah, I spend a lot of time staring at the "Player X taking turn..." screen. Sometimes I read a book or magazine while the turns are processing. I tried doing other stuff on the computer like reading this forum, by using ALT-TAB to switch to another program, but sometimes SEIV crashes when I do this so I no longer attempt that.

I used to play SEIV on a Pentium I - 233 MHz and it was SLOW! While I wait for the turns to process I'd eat meals, take showers, brush my teeth, make phone calls, do all sorts of stuff. Last year I upgraded to a 800MHz computer which I'm using now, and it's much faster (compared to before). But I'm hoping to buy a more up-to-date machine by the time SE5 comes out next year.

Very similar to me, except that I still use a PII 233MHz computer. 20 seconds to process a turn seems incredibly fast to my. I must wait about 30 minutes in a later game for the next turn!

[Ragnarok-X]

thanks for all the comments and possible helps