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.