Summary / Title

The game slows down after around 120 turns of continuous play.

Description

Within the galaxy map sizes tried: large, huge, and colossal, when the game starts to reach around 120 turns it begins to become slow to respond to user interactions.  Clicking a button to dismiss a dialog window takes time, clicking on items to build within the planetary menu shows the animation of the icon being tossed into the build queue, but the build queue remains blank, the notifications come in batches that are within a few seconds apart, and it takes longer and longer as you continue to play between user interactions.  

When the game begins to slow down, you can quit the application and start it again, load the saved game and it will run fast again.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start a new game as any race, using the default map settings

2. Play the game

3. Observe the game becomes slow to respond after 120 turns.

4. Save the game and quit the application

5. Restart the game, load the saved game, observe the speed is fast again

Reproducibility

5/5

Expected Behavior

Game should not slow down.

Version

1.0.1-GOLD

Notes

I personally suspect this is a memory leak, which might be part of the UI system (notifications might not be garbage collected for example)

I am reporting this because I am very confident that this is the issue, and I have repeated it every game I've played - and I've been able to workaround it by quitting the app and loading the saved game.  I would like to know if this defect will be tracked and what priority it will be given as well, as I really, really, want to see this fixed. Feel free to ask questions if you need help reproducing the issue, etc.

Hey there BulletMagnetEd,

since you have one of those nice new shiny octacore cpu, would you care to comment if the game is well paralellized? I am kinda hoping AI is, but dev didn't share any technical details.

I'm considering moving from my trusty old 3770K to either 1700 or 7770K and I am curious whether ESII would benefit from extra cores. I win performace wise either way, but you know MOAR CORES !!.

Waiting 5 to 10 second for AI just to evaluate diplomatic trade value, and adjusting trade amounts is pure murder I tell you.