If you have a specific save game that manifests the issue you should also attach it so the devs can look at perfromance issues

satoru wrote:

If you have a specific save game that manifests the issue you should also attach it so the devs can look at perfromance issues

I've updated my post.

I also updated my post as well. I think I just ran into your problem Xanfus, so you're not alone. Hopefully the Devs will get everything sorted . 

I have problems with late game performance too. Ending turn takes forever and then AI is still doing its movements on the begining of new turn. Additionaly, during this, game is unresponsive. I know that this is very early build, but fully released es1 had same issues.

I've been repeatedly getting dramatically increased end turn times around turn 80-100 as well. I would expect the turns would take longer in the end game because of all the increased calculations, but right now it becomes significant enough that its detracting from the gameplay experience.

I registered to discuss the issue with end turn times being very high. From what I noticed, the end turn times started increasing from around 80-90 turns. I have played till 160 turns, when I decided to start timing the amount of time it was taking to process each turn. After clicking end turn on 160th turn, I started the stopwatch. After 10 minutes I got impatient and quit the game, since at that rate it would take me 400 minutes more to finish the game. My computer specs are pretty good. I am running a i7 3770K on a Asus Sabertooth Z77 motherboard. My processor is water-cooled, though I am sure the processor was not being used to anywhere near its full potential, since the fans on the radiator were pretty quiet. For graphics card I am running at 560Ti at the moment, though I have faced the same issue with my 7970 Vapor-X too.

I really love the game and really want to play it, but I don't have the patience to wait for 10 mins each turn during the later part of the game. Like any 4X, if you are trying to get a non-combat victory, the last 50 or so turns are mostly uneventful. Most of the times you just click next turn and tweak something here and there towards a peaceful victory.

I request the developers to not look at my post as a complaint, but as a request from someone who really wants to enjoy the later part of the game. A request to optimise the processing of end of turns so that the game can be enjoyed as it is meant to be. If there is anything I can do on my part to help with this, I would be glad to.

Could you please share your save folder for this game? Increased end turn latency is expected from the game given the current issues with performance, but not at this point!

Thanks in advance.

Thank you for the files, everyone. We'll update you when we know more.

Here is another observation from my side. I decided to try this out because of something I thought. I loaded the game which I had played till 160 turns again. This time around the end turn processing is normal. Before this I had played 160 turns in a single setting. Being a software engineer myself I thought that there might be a possibility that resources are not being reclaimed turn over turn which is causing a lot of memory to be used up on stuff that should not be relevant anymore. This memory should be reclaimed as the game progresses, which is not happening. One more thing that led me to think this is that, I had received a low memory error on my last play-through of 160 turns in a single setting. Getting a low memory notification on my system is extremely rare since my system has 16 GB of RAM, which is more than enough to handle any game.

I think that this issue has something to do with how memory is being reclaimed or garbage collected in software terms. Since a restart of the game eliminated this issue, I am pretty sure a fresh load of the save did not load up all the unnecessary memory that was being held up during the last play-through. So some fine-tuning on how variables and memory are handled after they become irrelevant for the game might easily fix this issue.

An upcoming fix includes certain recurring memory allocation issues, which should hopefully contribute to enhancing performance.