Game is hiccuping

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Playing single player on a huge map. PC specs:

3.2 GHz Pentium 4, single core
2GB RAM
GeForce 7800 GS (distributor overclocked)

The game is pausing for a split second maybe 1.5 or 2 seconds. It's not an FPS issue, as the pausing happens even when zoomed out. Almost like the load of having a huge map with 9 enemies is too much, and it can't finish all it's processes before the next cycle, so it hiccups. It is regular, though, not condition-dependent; you could set your watch to how regular the pauses are.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
That... is such an old annoyance. Its been around since Beta 2, at least, alas. It happens late game when system resources are tied up, but the really annoying thing is that CPU / RAM aren't maxed out when the issue occurs, so I have no clue whats causing it on my end.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
hold your nose, tilt your head back and slowly drink warm water

oh wait, thats for normal hiccups...
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Louis Lohman, try and press the ctrl-shift-z to remove the UI and see if that helps.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
stupid question, but have you defragmented recently ?
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Could this be the autosave halting the game while writing to disk?
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Could this be the autosave halting the game while writing to disk?
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You don't autosave very couple of seconds

Guys, this is an old problem -- you can look up my posts about it.

Its a freeze, for a fraction of a second, every few seconds. The exact duration / frequency changes from game to game, but it happens in almost every (large) game, once you've hit a certain size.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Bad resource allocation somewhere, flips out after a certain point and then stays flipped out.