godotnut
Inverted Unicycle
OK, on my Dell 600M, with 512 RAM and a 1.5 G Pentium M chip, running XP Home with SP2, and using only a 32mb video card (which DOES have Hardware T&L but which, at only 32mb, falls short on the videocard megabyte requirement as stated on the box), the game seems to work OK. It's a little skippy and the transitions aren't that smooth, but it's light years cooler looking than Civ3 and seems to work well so far.
Card: ATI Mobility Raedon 9000 (32 mb, WITH Hardware T&L) = WORKS
The initial movie is AWESOME. I noticed a couple of very minor skips. I tried it for about 20 minutes in tutorial mode, and it seems to work just fine. Then I played a few turns in first person. The graphics are a tiny bit slow, and Sid's voice skips once in a while (yes, Sid himself tutors you, including a cute, nerdy picture of him). Altogether, seems better than I had hoped.
My Dell desktop with a 2.6 G Pentium chip, 512 RAM, running XP Professional with SP 2, using a 64 mb videocard WITHOUT Hardware T&L doesn't seem to run the game. All of the leaders look like cheshire cats from Alice in Wonderland. That is to say, all you can see are their eyes and mouths. Worse, you can't see the land at all, only blackness, and it's not fog of war.
Card: Intel 82845G (64 mb, NO Hardware T&L) = DOES NOT WORK
I tried to turn the graphics settings down to low, and when I restarted the game, I could no longer see the options menus for graphics and sound. They were blank, so I couldn't tell what setting I was on. The game still didn't work. I'm glad I can play on my laptop (see previous post), but it looks like I'll need a new video card to play this game with my son when he visits me.
Card: ATI Mobility Raedon 9000 (32 mb, WITH Hardware T&L) = WORKS
The initial movie is AWESOME. I noticed a couple of very minor skips. I tried it for about 20 minutes in tutorial mode, and it seems to work just fine. Then I played a few turns in first person. The graphics are a tiny bit slow, and Sid's voice skips once in a while (yes, Sid himself tutors you, including a cute, nerdy picture of him). Altogether, seems better than I had hoped.
My Dell desktop with a 2.6 G Pentium chip, 512 RAM, running XP Professional with SP 2, using a 64 mb videocard WITHOUT Hardware T&L doesn't seem to run the game. All of the leaders look like cheshire cats from Alice in Wonderland. That is to say, all you can see are their eyes and mouths. Worse, you can't see the land at all, only blackness, and it's not fog of war.
Card: Intel 82845G (64 mb, NO Hardware T&L) = DOES NOT WORK
I tried to turn the graphics settings down to low, and when I restarted the game, I could no longer see the options menus for graphics and sound. They were blank, so I couldn't tell what setting I was on. The game still didn't work. I'm glad I can play on my laptop (see previous post), but it looks like I'll need a new video card to play this game with my son when he visits me.
