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Sep 27, 2008, 04:00 PM
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Say No 2 Net Validations
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 771
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Civ 4 and Laptop Heat
Can anyone give me a recommendation to a laptop that would run this well without generating a ton of heat. Would a dual-core laptop help?
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Oct 21, 2008, 02:44 PM
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Chieftain
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 57
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yeah a dual core would work, plus get at least 2 gigs of ram if it is running vista, and a graphics card of at least 128 memory.
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Oct 21, 2008, 07:43 PM
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Mighty Pirate
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Deep in the Caribbean...
Posts: 659
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The most important thing for gaming on a laptop is getting one with a discrete graphics card. Many laptops use integrated graphics to save on battery power and price, but you really need a discrete card that has a pixel shader and vertex shader capability.
To be honest with you, my best experience on Civ IV on a laptop is my wife's MacBook Pro (the Pro, not the regular one). I have Windows XP installed on it in bootcamp, and Civ IV, BTS runs great on it. Expensive though - (~$2000), we didn't buy it for Civ obviously. It is her computer for work.
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