Got Room?

[Gobalopper]

Chris also had this to say about running Emperor and just how much precious hard drive space it will require, check it out below:

I just want to point out that EA & Westwood do not recommend running programs in the background while playing Emperor. Its possible that some may help, and likely that some will actually cause some level of problem. If you do experience strange problems when running extra background cache utilities, then try removing them and retry Emperor.

The one suggestion I can recommend is to defrag your hard drives using the Windows defrag tool. I would also recommend double checking the amount of free hard drive space on your C: drive (or the drive Windows is using for Virtual Memory caching). If you try running any app with less than 100MB on your C: drive, your bound to get VM thrashing slow-downs.

p.s. Emperor requires about 600MB free on your hard-drive for installation. So the 100MB on C: recommendation is of course after installation. (I always prefer to put my games on the D: drive, so I can let C: have as much as it wants) - LINK

600MB isn't too bad, especially for a 4 CD game. :)