Ugh...I suppose I have the record on the longest turn change ever.


Normally, my turn changes take 5-10 minutes. A month ago (I had quit playing EB due to it's stupidifying slowness), I decided to give it a shot again. Besides the 20 minutes of starting up and the usual turtle speed when moving the cursor and units around the strategic map, I realized I had nothing left to do in my turn. I pressed the "End Turn" button.
As normal, at that moment I rise from my chair in front of my pc and go do something else (play football, watch tv, w/e), luckily for me, Sporting vs Porto was about to start, so I went to watch it. After the first part ended I went to check on the game and to my disbelief, only a few factions had elapsed, two minutes or so later I got a nice battle against the Ptolomaioi (I'm Macedonia). After winning the battle, the end turn continued and I went back to watching the game (the game had already 5 minutes on the second half) so I continued watching the game 'til it was over and when I returned, the turn still hadn't changed (Was in the Eleutheroi Faction) I was like: "What the..." The turn change took a little more than an hour. A bad record in my computer. Vanilla (Which I'm having fun playing) runs just fine.

I have 512mb of RAM, pentium 4, Win XP, some weak Radeon Graphics Card (91...something, like 9100) and that's pretty much it.

After that awesome 1 hour long turn, I saved the game and haven't played since. :P