rob.derosa
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how olds your graphics card
lolz!
civ4 works like a charm on mine
Raeon X800XT
lolz!
civ4 works like a charm on mine
Raeon X800XT
That is such bull****, and I am personally getting sick of reading it. It gets propagated further each time a big name game is released - or should that be rushed out before it's completed. it's utter, utter tosh.Roland Ehnström said:Bottom line is: It's pretty much impossible to make a bug-free game in this day of age.
I can promise you now, it's not. I had my first crash with game today, and that's the sort of screen I got just before it happened. My graphics card is a brand new ATI x850xt PE. but you're right, i should ignore that only one piece of software on my machine crashes with video display discrepancies, because it simply CAN"T be the game, can it?Roland Ehnström said:That looks like a broken or overheated gfx-card to me. Definately a hardware problem.
Kudos said:Good . I'm not really trolling at all, I'm just frustrated with all the technical glitches I've been experiencing.
Perhaps there's been an announcment on a patch?
Scatter said:That is such bull**** [...] it's utter, utter tosh.
Scatter said:but you're right, i should ignore that only one piece of software on my machine crashes with video display discrepancies, because it simply CAN"T be the game, can it?
Scatter said:the ability to download patches has lead to games being rushed out the door by publishers who can now put ever tighter dealines on developers for quick erleases safe in the knowledge that - a/ it'll be easy to recitfy with a patch at a later date, once the money has been safely collected from a few gazillion sales; and b/ dullards throughout the world are buying the line that is somehow the acceptable norm.
warpstorm said:It looks like the problems I had when I overclocked my nVidia card. Are you or have you ever overclocked that card (the damage can be permanent).
There's no doubt that console gaming is simpler, easier and in many respects better.fant0mas said:as an avid gamer (mostly pc, but also console) for the past 20 years, it's reasons like this why ultimately console gaming will more and more become the predominate gaming platform.
all this talk of driver upgrades/downgrades... hardware upgrades/downgrades/differences. You don't have to deal with all this in console games. Most of the time it just works.
I'm not bashing Civ4. It works great on my machine and I love it. But threads like this just remind me that I think PC gaming is on its way out.
Kudos said:Well I did everything suggested, including upgrading to SP2.
The graphical glitching seems to be gone but the game still runs like crap now that I'm into the late-mid game and it now freezes up completely, erases everything but the terrain (including the interface), and slashes a big black line across the screne.
THIS is simply not acceptable. I run far more intensive games, like battlefield 2 or Age of Empires 3, with hardly a problem whatsoever.
THIS is garbage, is what it is. My specs are nothing unordinary, it's just that no proper amount of testing was done on this.
Kudos said:Ok here's some specs:
3ghz p4 ht
1 gig ram
6600GT with latest drivers
And here's some glorious Civ 4:
przy said:Ok, sure, next.