Civilization – How to improve Civilization V’s performance

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I have pretty decent hardware and I run many games on it. But Civ 5 is unacceptably slow when it reaches an advanced stage where it shows the whole map and there are many units.

I tried to monitor the CPU and memory and I couldn't find the bottleneck. I run it in a fast SSD and I didn't monitor my GPU.

I noticed a speed improvement when I changed from DX10/11 to DX9. But the performance isn't acceptable yet.

Best Answer

Get FRAPS or some other tool to display the frame rate and monitor the effects of your changes.

There are a quite some things you could try to do:

  • reduce the graphics settings
  • play at a lower resolution
  • use the strategic view (doesn't help as much as one would think)
  • play on smaller maps
  • don't zoom out as much (as Oak already said)
  • win before the modern age
  • install the latest graphics drivers

If you're talking about the time between turns, you'll be happy to know that the next patch is supposed to significantly reduce that time.

You did not write your exact specifications of your computer, Civilization V is a pretty resource-hungry game, you'll need a relatively new and powerful CPU and GPU to play it at decent settings.

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