Version 1.58 is unplayable.

I was able to clear it by blowing away my page file (I suspected a corrupted page file after having to cold boot the machine to get it out of a stuck turn process - I left it running OVERNIGHT and it still didn't complete the turn).

Now I'm getting it jamming up on player turn processing again. Any way you have mitigated this issue with your balance mod, Kwok? Is it the combat time limit being exceeded or something in the AI battles?

I also downloaded an XP performance optimizer to free up more ram. It appears though that my CPU is the one that's pegged when I get this issue.

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Is there a place to reduce the combat time limits that I can adjust as a starting point? it should be a setting as well for systems with low performance, like the graphics. I only have 256 megs of ram (no laughing!) on my old box.

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My Bad, I found the issue.

I'd like to apologize to Aaron Hall and the Academy, 1.58 is just fine, the issue was with my custom music.

I had some music files from an old cd (soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian that I converted to mp3 from that inane Microsoft media file format.

When the game randomly picked one of these songs to play, the following would happen:

1. The song would not play.
2. The game would begin to 'crash'. Clicking on anything would no longer show you the contents of that hex. Hitting the end turn button would do nothing.
3. If the game was processing a turn when it tried to switch to one of these game-crashing songs, the game would hang, requiring ctl-alt-del to exit.

I have removed the offending songs from settings and my game runs perfectly now.

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