I've noticed this will happen on a fairly consistent basis if you reload several saves during one session without restarting the game, even on much earlier turns.

This happened to me once exactly as you describe it and I have a pretty beefy rig. I'm playing on max settings and at 2K resolution. Audio corruption followed by periods of the game not responding. I had to save the game in moments while it was responsive and then quit out.

Quitting to desktop and then relaunching and loading the save fixed the issue for me however. I played through the rest of my playthrough without it happening again to the same extent.

Yep, I basically can't go past turn 70 without this becoming an issue.

. Quitting to desktop and then relaunching and loading the saved game fixed the issue for the next 7 turns for me. Than it starts again.

It takes me forever (not literally, but about 25 minutes) to load the game initially. I go through cycles of program not responding, click wait for it to respond, then it loads a bit more. I play 4x games all the time with no problem, and this seems to be a memory leak of some sort. If it's just me, then perhaps I can't play the game, but I suspect from reading comments here and elsewhere, that it is more widespread.

CaptainPatch wrote:

P.S.  What does that icon and numbers refer to just under "Newcomer"?

Captain, The points are your weight when voting. If you upvote a post, your points are added to that post. If you vote during a competition, then the total score of all users who voted for an option is considered when choosing a winner.

Thanks for illuminating me.  (Wow.  If a "Newcomer" has 8,400 like me, then what does a Senior Forum Member get?  Something like half-a-million?  8^D )

I also got this issue starting around turn 100, exactly as described above. First indication was audio stutter, followed by game slowdown and eventual nonresponsiveness forcing a Windows "Close program" dialog. Some log files attached:

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Can confirm, this happens in every playthrough. Sound begins to stutter, sometimes it helps not doing anything and it catches up.

Win 7 64bit

i7 2600k

16 GB RAM

GTX 970

SSD with abundand space

Agreed. I've stopped testing due to a bug at turn 33 but even still I was trying to figure out if having fewer cities would help at all. Had vaguely planned on trying for a 3 city only run focused on stability to see if that kept the issues down.