It typically takes a minute to 1.5 minutes for it to complete its updating at the very start of the reinforcements phase, and then again after completing my tasks and clicking on the advance button it goes into the stall mode. It has not crashed, just takes a while for it to finish the update. All other phases only take a second or two completing its updates when starting or ending a phase-reinforcements sticks out like a sore thumb. While I'm in the phase, everything works well-the problem is starting and ending the phase.
During the lag period the mouse is hardly functioning; it will stick and then move, or jump, to another location instead of a smooth move. Again, this is only during the minute or so of the phase changing.
Something else that is odd about this phase is the CPU usage while it is entering the phase. During nearly all game play CPU usage on my PC is running at 40 to 50%. While entering reinforcements it is running at about 80 to 90%. The only other time it approaches that level is when ai units are moving during the military phase, but there is no problem during those moves-actually quite smooth and as fast as it should be. Battles use about 30% of my CPU capacity.
This is not really a bug, the game does function, but it still seems something may be amiss with the reinforcements phase. I will have to recheck the wego mode-I don't recall this occurring in 2 player wego. I have seen this before in at least one other game I own, but it is still unusual.
My PC has a 5800 Athlon Duel Core CPU, 4 gigs of ram (counting the GPU) and a Gforce 9800 card.
When you are all caught up and getting bored, perhaps you can look into this issue
