Recent content by AlecTavi

List of cities: click the "reports" button at the top of the screen. List of units: select a unit, and click the name of the unit type, such as "Warrior".

This is definitely a problem. I have had the same issues in most of my games. The major issue is the way that cottage/hamlet/village/towns work. By the end of the game, if you have been building towns the way the workers recommend, you end up with research and gold far outpacing production...

Yes! Actually, the technology quotes are included in the game. They are in an XML file under the assets folder in your cIV installation folder. Poke around! All of XML is just in plain text. You can find (and alter, if you wish) every tech quote in there. You can even change the WAV files that...

A note on the "Iron Works does not add production" bug in the main post: It seems that the Iron Works IS adding production in those screenshots, listed as +100% from resources. Isn't that exactly what having Iron and Coal w/ Iron Works is supposed to do?

It has been requested that CivIV be made available through download distribution, and now it is! I have just found an ad from direct2drive for CivIV! This means that people in remote corners of the world who are awaiting arrival of the game can buy it from www.direct2drive.com. I hope this helps...

I too have been having this problem on a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. I solved it after rebooting Windows, having my hotpluggable CD drive in the entire time. Hope that helps!

I am very interested as well. May I suggest that it be extended to be a "Relaxed Players Association?" As Varelse commented, the term mature could be misinterpreted, and relaxed play seems to be the focus of our interest. I am sure there will be plenty of organized groups for very competitive...

Yes, that's precisely what I was implying, and that it would probably be threaded, because the alternative would be a loop checking for user input. Should get better responsiveness to the user by threading as well. That's a very good point. I didn't consider threading for the MP I/O...

Assuming you are referring to my offer for additional demonstrations of multi-cpu usage, here are some suggestions. Unzipping files in windows is a good, CPU intensive process that will ONLY use a single CPU. Try taking a large, single file (like a ripped DVD ;-) ) and compress it (right click...

While there is some truth in this post, I believe there are some misrepresentations in it. First, I agree that Civ IV will probably not take advantage of multiple processors. This is not, however, because of the nature of Civ IV being synchronous. All animations, sounds, tooltips, and timing...

This is a good example of what I was trying to describe. I should also make one thing clear. I believe that Windows uses kernel threads, but it may not. My expertise is primarily on *NIX systems. Without kernel thread scheduling, threading will show no performance increase with multi-processors...

Well, they aren't really subprocesses, I just used that as a simple way to describe them. There are some technical things that make them similar and dissimilar to real processes. That's also why the term "lightweight processes" is also used to describe threads. Also, "sub-processes" can refer to...

Yes, and no. Hyperthreading is NOT the same as dual-core. Hyperthreading is a way that Intel gets a much smaller, but significant increase in performance. Essentially, a single processor with HT will appear to the operating system as two seperate processors, the same way that a dual-core or true...

It will almost certainly be a "Hang on the wall" style of keymap because of the wide array of keyboard layouts. Even traditional keyboards can have very different sizes.

There is no clear answer as to whether or not a particular, unreleased application will be able to take advantage of multiple processors. There are two ways in which they can help, however, and I can explain that. When multiple processes (applications) are running, they can be split among the...