Any way to speed up ship movement on screen?

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I am playing on a ludicrous sized map with some ships that have a huge number of moves per turn.    Is there any way to speed up the time between when you click on a destination and when it gets to the destination - or as far as it can get towards it?

All I get on my screen are the green dashes showing the calculated path.   They seem to update every time the ship moves a single space, sometimes vascillating between what would seem to be widely different paths.   It looks from my side like the longer the distance the longer it takes between updates, which makes some sense.

I have tried this when the entire galaxy is visible through sensors, and that doesn't seem to make any difference.   I kind of recall in an earlier version of the game (possibly GalCiv2, but I'm not sure) that I could click on the destination and then 'slide' the screen so that the flight path was entirely off of the screen, and the ship would complete its flight with no time lapse.   But the way the game is now, once I click the destination I literally cannot do anything until the ship is finished moving.    For long flights, for ships with a ridiculous number of moves, it can take several minutes for the ship to reach its destination.    I'd be just as happy for no graphic updates during the flight and have it appear at the final position.

Is there any game setting that will help with this?   I've been looking, but haven't found any yet.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Fast animations options is needed.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Are you saying that I need to set an option for 'Fast Animations', or that the developers need to create an option to allow for them?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You asked a question on how to speed this up right? Get a solid state drive you wont want to go back. Are you playing with at least 12-32 gigs of ram it helps more the merrior. Make sure your virtual memory your paging file is at least 3 times your ram. Aside from this make your power options are on high performance. If you never checked this I will garantee you it's not. The default is balanced evenfor desktops. Now you could cleanup your disk, and defrag it. for cleaning I recommend ccleaner. If you have a desktop you could upgrade your processor, or even your motherboard, and processor. Overclocking and turbo boost. If you have a desktop the turbo boost.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Mostly, you are dealing with the reality that Ludicrous is really ludicrous.  Not much you can do about it.

 

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

have you tried giving the move command while NOT looking at the ship?  I find the ships will jump quickly through moves if I am zoomed in on the destination, rather than watching each move.  it seems to cut down on the time if it is not animating the movement.