Hi there.
I've recently started playing GalCiv3, and I noticed that it doesn't run very well on my machine. My machine meets or exceeds the recommended specifications except for one component, so I was wondering if that would cause the lag.
My system specs are
- Intel Core i5 6600k non-OC
- 16GB DDR4 RAM
- Intel Integrated Graphics (Intel HD 530 with 128MB dedicated and 8029MB (WTF?) shared memory)
I normally play on a Huge galaxy with 5 AI players and "Occasional" minor races, and that gets around 40FPS throughout the game when the graphical options are set to the Low preset and the game is running in fullscreen at 1080p.
However, playing an Insane map drops the framerate to around 15FPS, but strangely the CPU usage isn't hitting 100% and at the start of the game GalCiv3 is only taking around 5GB of RAM.
Would my GPU be bottlenecking the system?
In case you need more detailed information about the system, I'm using Windows 10 Pro version 1511, the page file is set to around 2.7GB initial with 4GB max and it's on an SSD (Samsung 850 EVO 250GB). The game is installed to a set of 2 mechanical drives in RAID 0. The CPU is not thermal throttling and I have the latest Intel drivers installed. I'm playing the 1.83 stable release.