It's Sunday morning & I feel like rambling. The sun is shining, the wind blowing, & I have my caffeine high.:)

Civ 4 is fun & beautiful. I did not say perfect.

Civ 4 is the first Civ I like; altho I played some Civ 2 & 3.

I play on Noble-the fairest level-on epic mostly (have tried Marathon) -small to medium? size maps. Like to turtle, build, culture-religion peaceful conquer neighboring civs' cities. Like to look by 1400-ish & see what I've built & how I rank. I often quit at that time & start anew.

Wish it was possible to play in an extended ancient era-such as the Mesopotamian scenario in Civ 3.

Guess I'll give Galactic Civ 2 a look; didn't like GalCiv1. Is GalCiv any good???

RTW looked good for the first 4 hours. I then returned it (It pays to know the store manager).

Paradox has yet to produce a working GAME. They keep experimenting with a 'game engine' they found in the garbage heap of some PC game manufacturer who had gone out of business.

Age of Empires Bruce Shelley & crew get an honorable mention; but I no longer play real time games - too much like hurried sex.

Back to Civ 4. It crashes-freezes on the achievement of wonders about 25% of the time. I curse out Sid Meiers, shut off computer & start up again.

I apologize again for this rambling appreciation of a game that is fun & has brightened my slow moments. I played the old Talonsoft wargames & the Avalon Hill Board wargames. Talonsoft's wargames needed more programming for their a1. The West Front, etc. had real potential.

After 1 month I am satisfied. My favorite civ is Greek; hope the expansion includes Vikings.

Greetings to all. Nice forum!:goodjob:

My PC runs Civ4 fine. It can also run Call of Duty 2. Which hads much much much! better graphics. So my answer to you is this. Buy a better computer/hardware.

:( Bites for those of us without all that extra loot to spend on a new comp...

Do not mean to rub it in, but I tried to run Civ4 with my old computer for weeks; I must have spent 100 hours trying to get it to run. It did eventually run, but it was so slow that it was no fun at all. I finally bought a new computer!!

If you figure the opportunity cost of the hours you spend trying to get the game running on older computers, I think you'll realize that you'll actually be saving money by buying a new rig.

My computer is modern - P4, 512Ram - & high def flat screen to enjoy the C4 artwork. Not complaining. Recently uninstalled my useless Norton & played a flawless game.

Sadly, many fans of C4 do have modern computers & still do have problems with video glitches-lines-white or black screens - or the occasional crash. Patch 1.52 helped a great deal, & am sure that the expansion will help resolve remaining problem issues as it did in C3's Complete.

Satisfied customer - owner of the best strategy PC game. Do I need a verb?

Would like to be able to erase saves without going to Window's Explorer. Again, I can work around these issues. They are not game breakers.

My father's computer is better than your father's computer

Your posts sound like they are written in the form of song :confused:

Your posts sound like they are written in the form of song :confused:

You are perceptive.

My favorite writers are Hemingway, Graham Greene, Solzhenitsyn, & Orwell. However, I am most influenced by Gertrude Stein.

Also highly influenced by Casey Stengel & childhood years in Brooklyn.

Additionally, Pres T. Roosevelt agrued for a strict phonetic usage of the alphabet & other reforms of our grammar.

However, TR was a historian (as I am a hist prof) TR wrote a 4 volume Hist of the US & conformed when necessary to customary English grammer, as did I in my History book.

On friendly forums I attempt to exercise my freer Anarchist side.

Hope you can understand my views & that it causes you no pain.

I just write how it pleases me.

"but I no longer play real time games - too much like hurried sex."

- LOL!

Satisfied as well. My comp took some tweaks, but got it to run with no crashes..though a bit slow. The hardware requirement was a bit too steep for this verison (and a strategy game), IMO. I'm also using the modded Domestic and Foreign advisors and they are extremely useful.

Yeah, the original advisors suck, across the board.

You are perceptive.

My favorite writers are Hemingway, Graham Greene, Solzhenitsyn, & Orwell. However, I am most influenced by Gertrude Stein.

Also highly influenced by Casey Stengel & childhood years in Brooklyn.

Additionally, Pres T. Roosevelt agrued for a strict phonetic usage of the alphabet & other reforms of our grammar.

However, TR was a historian (as I am a hist prof) TR wrote a 4 volume Hist of the US & conformed when necessary to customary English grammer, as did I in my History book.

On friendly forums I attempt to exercise my freer Anarchist side.

Hope you can understand my views & that it causes you no pain.

I just write how it pleases me.

It's very nice to read :D

My PC runs Civ4 fine. It can also run Call of Duty 2. Which hads much much much! better graphics. So my answer to you is this. Buy a better computer/hardware.

Yeah go buy a new PC because a game won't play on it. Sounds like solid financial management advice to me.

Yeah go buy a new PC because a game won't play on it. Sounds like solid financial management advice to me.

Hardware as in a improvement like a video card.