Last week I installed the 1.01 patch and to my surprise I now have a weird performance issue (I run Windows XP): every time I hit the turn button at the end of turn 5, 10, 15, 20, etc. I get totally unacceptable wait times between turns.

Just to give you a couple of examples I clocked the time from when I hit the turn button to when the cursor is transformed back from hourglass to sword:

1. Resoln (with custom sovereign):

turn 5: 4:25

turn 10: 4:10

turn 15: 3:40

turn 20: 8:10

turn 25: 6:20

turn 30: 3:35

turn 35: 5:22

2. Altar (Lord Relias)

turn 5: 2:45

turn 10: 2:43

turn 15: 5:27

turn 20: 8:22

The lag between the other turns is not an issue (10 to 30 seconds, which is Ok given that I'm playing on a really old system (AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.00 Ghz, 1.5 GB RAM). It's just the turns that are multiples of 5.

I've played extensively with the late betas and with 1.0 and I never this issued before.

So I have two questions: can this issue be resolved and (much more interestingly) what the hell is the the computer doing at the end of every fifth turn???

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thx

farkas