Hello there folks,
was just wondering which is that I should upgrade/overclock to get out some more FPS when playing :)

Thank you for your time!

Civ4 needs the following in this order:
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CPU speed

GPU speed does not give much - though it probably ranks somewhere below CPU in effect :)

He's talking about frame rate. Civ4 and most modern games are GPU bound

Well I have 2 Gig RAM. Actually I'm having no problems in Windows, but I'm trying to get playable framerates in Linux as well. I know drivers and game aren't optimized for Linux but I would still love to play without booting to Windows :)

He's talking about frame rate. Civ4 and most modern games are GPU bound
:blush: I answered before having my first couple :coffee: - I should stop doing this :D

so how well would it run on a laptop with a 2.2Ghz core2duo processor, 4gb ram and an Intel X3100?

I suspect your graphics card would hold you back in that scenario...

Yeah. Your frame rate should be around 15 with X3100

Macbook is that Fitzy?

so how well would it run on a laptop with a 2.2Ghz core2duo processor, 4gb ram and an Intel X3100?

Should run OK. The integrated graphics card might cause a bit of slowdown in the late game, but probably nothing game-killing.

Fitzy the onboard will destroy performance on any large map . Nothing even something as crap as a 128 mb Radeon wouldn't take care of.