Excessive combat times

[Sardia]

I'm on turn 50-60 is my games and it is taking a long time just to do basic clean up, like chasing fighters that have been scattered, or running down freighters.
I'm on balance mod as always.

The ending combat load bar takes forever to finish. It makes me dread the aftermath of big battles, since I then have to deal with 3 or more groups of scattered fighters and freighters. Each of these combats consist of them running away, and me chasing them, and then combat ends and it slowly loads up the finishing combat bar. Ugh
=|
Strategic combat isn't any faster either, I still have these long load times just to end combat. I heard of people comfortably taking turns that are over 100.0 years, do they have long combat times?

What is causing this? Is there any fix?

[Captain Kwok]

Try setting "Generate Combat Replay" to false in Settings.txt, found in the mod's data folder.