No CD crack reduces turn time by alot?

[moomin]

Originally posted by Grim Legacy


This would only help if the game accessed the CD while running. To my knowledge, it does not. Perhaps turning off the music helps even more.

It surprised me too, since I have a full install, but I understand certain forms of copy protection hit the cd controller a lot without actually spinning the cd itself.

That go a long way toward explaining how Firaxis didn't catch these things themselves - they probably didn't test the game with the copy protection on, inhouse...

And anyway, while I sure don't know what causes it, installing the no-cd patch has speeded my game up no end. Go figure.