Steel Panthers bug ?

[Imp]

Backing to desktop clears the buffers and short term memory. IIRC, it also clears out the cache memory (L1, L2). I got tired of doing that a lot since the chip I'm running has no L2 cache and I starting researching it and found that if I turn off cideamon.exe BEFORE starting a turn it helps a lot.

Are you sure?
unless you lose stuff on your computer a lot try adjusting your file search settings to basic & cidemon.exe wont run. It records where stuff is on the harddisk to a logfile for searching purposes only to speed up but how often do you search for stuff?
Tried alt tabing & could not see any real diffrence cache dropped 1-3MB thats all. Perhaps if you are very short on memory starting another process/program clears the cache some do try & create as much space to run in as possible, increasing your page file might help.