Effect of G&K on slow machines

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I've been playing Civ 5 on my laptop pretty much since the day it came out. The problem is my laptop is getting pretty old and I'm pretty much forced to run the game in gridview if I want it to go quickly. Outside of gridview it works, but late game breaks between turns can get excruciatingly long.

I'd like to buy G&K but I'm worried that this old machine won't be able to handle anything more than what I already have with Civ 5. Has anyone else with a slow machine bought G&K? Is G&K more taxing on a computer than regular Civ?
 
I didn't see any noticable slowdown on my old laptop, but I don't play a high resolution and no bigger maps than standard.
(how old? The graphics card is an Ati X1600, thát old).
 
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