UI Lag, any possible ways to alleviate it?

Since I can't seem to find an edit button; I'd just like to add the obligatory yes I've checked FAQs and searched the forums before posting, but I've come up dry. Maybe I'm just searching for the wrong keywords or something.

I tried switching CPU affinity to a single core last night, and it doesn't seem to help at all with the UI windows lagging. I'd swear it did help with turn processing speeds, and maybe even the lag in combat; but it may have just been a placebo effect because I was trying so hard to find something that did improve.

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

That's my next try. I can't play that resolution in full screen on a widescreen for obvious reasons (I guess I could, but it would look funny); so I'll try it windowed and break out my reading glasses so I can make out the words.

The turn processing and stuff works fine for me. I tried it in windowed mode last night for grins, but the UI lag is still there when opening any window besides research, intel, and empire. Also, turn processing is pretty fast; generally a minute or two for the 15 other empires in my large spiral galaxy. My only issue is with the UI windows, which tend to lag quite a bit when opened. Well, that and combat; but I kind of expect lag when a couple hundred fighters engage at 32x speed.

The only other complaint I have with the UI windows is their lack of functionality above and beyond viewing. It would be great if there was a "Select All" button for planet construction orders, not to mention a button for Emergency Build, On Hold, etc. on the main construction window; so I didn't have to go in and select each and every planet I want to change, click add to all, then change the queue orders. Having those little spreadsheets of condensed info there and yet having no ability to macromanage from them seems an odd oversight.

^^^^I'm using a GEForce 7950GT; I can't see how opening the planets or construction window would be taxing it in the least. Especially considering I can run most FPS games at 1920x1200 with all the bells and whistles turned on and rarely dip below 25 FPS; except for Crysis, that game slays my video card.

Edit #2: I'm doubting it's got anything to do with fragmentation. I'm running dual SATA drives using RAID, load times are the least of my issues. I've also got 4GB of RAM running Vista 64 Home Basic. Maybe it's some DX Compatibility issue, or a 64>32 bit incompatibility, but this will be the first program I've run into that has given me any problems with 32 bit emulation. And I've been playing all kinds of old 32 bit games on this rig with no issues, and even some DOS ones like X-Com: Apocalypse without so much as a hiccup on DOSBox. As far as stability and backwards compatibility goes, I've been extremely impressed with MS this time around with Vista 64.

I'll take a look at the font smoothing Kwok; though I'm pretty sure it's unchecked. I've got all the UI changes in Vista turned off, and my desktop looks the same as my XP desktop did; which is the same as my Win2K desktop. Basic blue background with all the 'ooh shiny' effects off.

I'm still stuck in my old habits where every scrap of ram and CPU time used was a big deal on PCs; so I've never turned on any of the bloat that the last couple OS revisions introduced. I'd kill steam in my taskbar too if only the game would run without out it :argh: Valve :argh:.

Edit: Oh, on the subject of emergency/hold orders. I know I can click the ones I want and then hit add to all. The problem comes in when the number of planets I want to modify becomes significantly larger than the number of planets I want to leave alone. For example; last night a bunch of my treatied allies wanted to clear their treaties of all options, which included some 30-40% trade agreements (This is using your balance mod btw, and what's up with my allies deciding they want to lose out on an extra 40% income a turn anyway?). I figured what the hell, since I was a major superpower and therefore I don't need any allies.

The thing I forgot to take into account was that I'd researched next to no planetary tech up to this point, and my trade income was easily twice my actual income. So, I went bankrupt in no time, had to dump some research in planetary techs, and had to go through and put 40-50 planets on hold to allow my facility upgrades to finish building. It was at this point that I realized a select all button would likely save me from getting carpal tunnel considering I have only about a quarter of the galaxy under my belt and here I am with a ton of planets that need orders all at once.

You have to turn VSync off to exceed the refresh rate of the monitor in order to get more than 60 I believe.