Hi guys, sorry for taking so long to reply, I appreciate you all taking the time to help me. I think I found the solution! I suddenly realized (don't know why I didn't think of it before) that almost all the games I play do have something in common--- I almost always reveal the map. Until now I never gave it a second thought, but I don't like trying to find the AI character so I would reveal the map almost every time I played a game. After it came to mind, I wondered if that might be the common denominator to my problem, so I stopped doing that and tried playing with fog of war only or just black, and since then I haven't had a single recurrence of "Speedy Gonzales game". Perhaps it has something to do with the computer having to show the entire map's movement at once? I don't know anything about programming and not much more about computers in general, but hey, I'm just glad to be able to play a game all the way through! Then again, it could be unrelated to revealing the map, but either way the problem appears to be fixed, so I'm happy.