Thanks for the tips and I didn't realise there was this kind of auto-difficulty setting....that's superb!
I had my first CTD!
I'm on turn 1004 and I was having a great battle with my new archers trying to take out some barbarian camps when I founded Juinism (not sure how you spell it as I've never heard of it!) The little screen came up to play the vid, but then it crashed saying I was out of video memory!
I thought my system would be handle this and I had all my settings on high thinking it would be OK, but I guess not. Do you guys with mid-to high-end systems still have to lower the settings? I have:
i7 920 @ 3.8GHz
XFX 5870 1GB (stock clocks)
6GB RAM @ 1600MHz
Windows 7 64 bit
Civ 4 installed on an 80GB Intel SSD
res 1920x1200
I'm playing on a large map and I'm experimenting with 1UPT and I guess that's putting a strain on things because there are a lot of things on the screen and the in-between turn times are getting a bit long.
What graphic settings would you recommend and do you think I would be better off just playing on a standard map and maybe going up to 5UPT?
While I'm here a just have a question about ranged attacks. It says the archers can make ranged attacks, but I can't see how to do that. They just seem to be able to attack like normal melee units on the tile next to the one you're attacking. I thought if they can make ranged attacks then they'd be able to attack from 2 tiles away. How do I do a ranged attack?
Thanks!
**Edit**
I forgot to add, I have disabled hyper-threading in my BIOS so the game should be using 4 threads instead of the full 8. Would enabling hyper-threading be better and can the game use 8 threads?