Speed issues

[camemberto]

When i play civ3 with windows XP
Anims are slower than normal i dont know why! it s not useful because the game become boring because turns take 5 mins.
Can somebody help me??
THANKS

[Sheik]

Close programs running in the background. I recomend you play without the animations turned on.

Otherwise buy better hardware. 5 minutes isn't very long between turns. Some people wait close to 30 minutes between turns.