Choppiness Fps Late Game (Dark Avatar)

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anyone else get choppiness frame rate late game? im playing on medium with 4 a.i.
and the fps is pretty bad but still playable, i try setting everything poor, but frame rate even got worse!...

Im running a vista laptop
2.0 dual core
2 gb ram
intel 965 gpa <-- probably why fps low?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yup it would be down to the integrated graphics. That and you are running Vista too. Make sure all other programs are closed and that you have turned off all advanced imaging for Vista (ie shut down the transparrency and other advanced options). All of those are real resource hogs!
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Make sure you've disabled indexing (properties tab of the drive in Computer. Something like "for fast searching, allow the drive contents to be indexed..."). Also go into the disk tools, defragmenter and turn it off (or schedule it for once a week or something). You don't need your disk constantly defragging in the background. Between them they should cut down on pointless disk and memory activity which should help boost the game.

You might also want to try downloading SP1 if you have a net connection.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
But if that tru what u said drengin, that sux i just bought this game and love it, but didnt expect it require much on the video card, now i need to buy a new comp -_-... to play in peace and i was looking forward to twilight :[.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Have you turned the Anti Aliasing down to zero in the game? Doing that will help. In latter parts of the game it does need a large amount of graphics capability and processor power to get through a turn. I have a dual core 6800 and a GeForce 7700 and i still get a lag in the latter parts of the game (ie a turn can take a min or so to process).