Anyone run into this bug (deteriorating gameplay until it gets unplayable)

Would you mind posting a saved game...So I can down load it and see if the bug is present on my system.

Or you can just send me the .gam file to , whichever is easier.

Tak

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I've loaded the game and played 10 turns and each turn I have moved all the ships possible...I am afraid I haven't experienced any backward twitching. It would seem that the problem is system related... I know that may not be much help, but it does point you in the right direction for getting the problem sorted.

My system is 3 and half years old, with the following specs

Packard Bell
Pentium 4 CPU 3.60Ghz 2.00 GB of Ram
ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series
OS: Windows XP

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If you are running an AMD dual core you can have problems like you've described when you have not installed the AMD Dual Core drivers and dual core optimizer for Windows XP. These made a huge difference on my machine. You can download them from AMD's website. These drivers will fix problems in a lot of games.

I have AMD dual core and installed the drivers for it and SEV runs quite well on it.

So you overclock your system to gain a little bit of speed and trade this for having some programs to run on just a single core? Overall performance should be better when you run the PC with proper drivers and use more than one core per application.

Besides - if you should have an old AMD quadcore and use it under Windows WITHOUT the proper drivers, you are inviting trouble.

Here is a quick paste from Wikipedia, concerning quad-core related troubles:

TLB errata

Before Phenom's release, it was discovered that a bug in the translation lookaside buffer (otherwise known as a TLB) in AMD's quad-core processors could cause a system lockup in rare circumstances. Phenom is affected by this bug up to and including stepping "B2" and "BA". There are BIOS and software workarounds to prevent this problem from occurring by disabling the TLB, although the workarounds typically employed incur a performance penalty of at least 10%.

This penalty was not accounted for in early pre-release previews of Phenom, so the performance of early Phenoms delivered to customers is expected to be somewhat below the benchmarks in these previews. Processors with the bug fixed have "50" as the last two digits of the model number, for instance 9650, with stepping "B3" was released March 27, 2008.

An AMD subsidiary has released a patch for the Linux Kernel,[11] which it said has received "minimal functional testing", to overcome this bug by software emulation of accessed- and dirty-bits causing little performance loss.