Are you using an FX5200?

Are you using an FX5200 card?

  • Yes, select ONLY if you're using an FX5200 card

    Votes: 40 66.7%

  • No, for ALL other cards

    Votes: 20 33.3%
  • Total voters
    60
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Seems to be the common video chipsets among the people here in the support forum. Just want to see how many people are having problems with it.
 
I was using one. Ran like asspoop.. It was choppy to no end, and the sound cut out in th emovies....

I was on a 2500xp, FX5200, 512mb ram, XP SP1

I pulled the FX5200 and put in a Radeon 9800 pro, upgraded to SP2

Runs perfect now. 1024x768 high res, without any stuttering or lag.

GL to you all :)
 
Yep. I have a P4 2.6ghz, 1.5mb RAM and Geforce 5200 fx. I was getting choppy cinematics and sluggish framerate with every game, even at the very beginning. Another thread here mentioned downloading an Nvidia tweak program and changing your pixel shader to 1.1. I did this and it fixed the sluggishness and choppy cinematics! I was considering buying a new card but this made it smooth enough to make me happy. I mean, I could play the game fine before, but it was just annoying that it felt so sluggish. My roommate has a worse system than mine at it scrolled like silk, but now mine does too! :) Good luck!

http://www.nvhardpage.com/
 
Yea, tried that too. Somewhat better performance, like you, it's good enough to "play" now, but I'm still thinking about a new video card.
 
Yes, it'd good enough to play, but it's still not FANTASTIC framerate. I too use a 5200.
 
No, it could always be better but this is a very cheap and noticeable solution. For those unwilling or cannot go buy a new video card, this is a great tweak.
 
From another thread:

1. Download and install nVHardPage SE(google it, it should be quite easy to find)

2. Open nVHardPage SE, go under the Direct X Tab and change the Pixel/Vortex Shader to 1.1 by sliding the tab to the left.

3. Check the "Override Shaders" box below it.
 
so far, it's 50% using an FX5200. I used the tool and game is running smoother. Dunno why, but before just now, I thought I had tweaked it, but I didnt check the "Override Shaders" box and it was running ok. Yea, the difference is noticeable, but if it makes the game runs even smoother, i'm game. So yea, if you got FX5200, give this tool a try.
 
I just bought an FX5200 as it was the best card I could find that would fit in my tiny Compaq Evo machine.
I installed the game with some trepidation after reading the forums here for the last 2 weeks, intro movie stutters but that's hardly game breaking!
I turned a couple of the in-game graphics options to medium and set my nVidia settings to turn off anti-aliasing and the other wotsit to off.
I installed XP SP2 and did a defrag before installing the game.
I have a P4 1.7MHz, ~900Mb SDRAM, the FX5200 (128MB) and an 80gig HDD that's about 1/3 full.

The only probs I have with the game are related to my sound card so I think I'm going to get a new one of those cos it's ancient.

I've played 3 games inc the tutorial to the Renaissance and have had several wonder movies but no crashes.:goodjob:

This game rocks even on my "crappy hardware" machine!

Oh yeah remember to turn off MSN before loading! :crazyeye:
 
I've played a couple of games now on my machine (AMD 2600+, 1GB SDRAM, FX5200)
I did a few of the tweaks suggested below and general performance was fine, with grsaphics on medium, however Wonder movies got progressively more choppy until with the Statue of Liberty it stopped altogether and crashed (I think the machine tried to autosave while the movie was still playing very slowly) Then even after reboots and reloads it was a struggle to get to the finish with frequent crashes to desktop . At this point the Space Race Victory movie wouldn't play at all so I went into the .ini file and switched off movies. This allowed the game to finish.
The second game I kept the movies switched off and everything else the same and everything is fine - so I'm thinking that problems playing the movies must be related to the instability ???
So maybe don't give up on the FX5200 just yet !
 
the game runs really slowly on my machine (i have an fx5200 pci-e) too, turning the graphics options to lower settings doesn't really work. I have not encountered any of the weird reported CTDs and system freezes, but it runs really really slowly, bordering on unplayability.
I am going to try that nvhardpage tweak, sounds like it might work... wish me luck! :P
 
Your card doesn't have enough of any throughput to be decent performer.
Compared with my 6800 ultra

Vertex throughput (Mverts/sec) 62 vs. 600
Pixel fill rate (Mpixels/sec) 1000 vs. 6400
Memory bandwidth (GB/sec) 2.8-8.0 vs. 35.2

One word: upgrade!
 
there's no need for showing off how good your hardware is. This thread is specifically made for the fx5200 chipset, so don't come in here telling us all to upgrade...
now please go away and let us play with our ancient hardware.
 
I have one and had crashes and reboots, but disabling videos has solved virtually all my problems, including lag after playing well into the early morning. Sometimes it hangs in between turns, but I just chalk that up to having to think for every AI civilisation.
 
Not for playing CIV IV.

Also guys, not to be complete ass, you should considering disabling shaders completely, not downgrading to model 1.0; i.e. force directx7, or plain TnL.
DirectX 7 path is always faster. Even fastest card out there will perform better in directx7, but most eye candy is gone.
 
Comraddict, could you post instructions on how to do it? I know several people have suggested the use of NvHardPage to set Shader to 1.1 instead of the 2.0 for the FX5200ers, and I do remember there being an option for disabled (if you move the slider all the way to the left/right). But how would you force directx7? I tried "uninstalling" directx using a prog but ended up not able to reinstall directx 9.0c, which led me to a clean format of my C: drive and a call in the middle of the night to microsoft because I've formatted my HDD too many time and XP wouldnt activate.
 
direct x 7= disabled shaders. i.e. shaders 1.1 are direct x 8.1 feature, TnL is direct x 7 feature.

So no you don't need to install directx7 (youwouldn't be able to run civ iv), all you have to do is disable directx 8 and 9 shaders.
 
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