Recent content by KingJim

I am by no means an expert at this game yet. I only win at Prince 1 out of 10 times but I do seem to do better with war. Here's what I've learned so far: Pay attention to what units your opponent has defending. Before going to war do Open Borders and see what they have. Use the...

Thank you very much for writting this. I just started online play and kept wondering why I loose all the time. Also, funny how you write a good article and the only thing someone has to critique is your sig. I say put it back. Good job!

YES! I have this problem too and it is so frustrating. In my case, I've always had this problem, pre and post 1.09 patch. The other difference is it only becomes unbearable after the first 50 turns or so, up until then it just seems like i'm playing on a sluggish system. I have enough...

Runs well on this laptop, not on my home PC that has better hardware. Very frustating! Here is the laptop specs that Civ 4 runs very well on: System Model: Gateway M680 Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz Memory: 1022MB RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c...

part 3 of my dxdiag file ------------------ DirectShow Filters ------------------ WDM Streaming VBI Codecs: NABTS/FEC VBI Codec,0x00200000,2,1,,5.03.2600.2180 CC Decoder,0x00200000,2,1,,5.03.2600.2180 WST Codec,0x00200000,1,1,,5.03.2600.2180 DirectShow Filters: WMAudio Decoder...

part 2 of my dx diag file: -------------- System Devices -------------- Name: U.S. Robotics V92 Fax PCI Device ID: PCI\VEN_12B9&DEV_1008&SUBSYS_00D312B9&REV_01\4&3B1D9AB8&0&4840 Driver: n/a Name: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT Device ID...

Greetings, My problem with Civ 4 is the performance is dreadfully slow and the in-game movies stutter. I have the graphics turned down as low as they will go in-game in in desktop settings. Has anyone found a solution to this yet? Here is my specs: Windows XP Pro sp2 AMD Athlon...

New drivers made no difference to me. Hopefully new patch will fix.

For the love of everything Holy and Righteous, HURRY UP WITH THAT PATCH!!!

I tried the new Nvidia 81.85 drivers with no changes. I still have very slow framerates and the in-game videos are stuttering badly.

ellie, it has nothing to do with the hardware of the PC's, there is something wrong with the game. My main PC at home should have more than enough horsepower and I still have lousy performance. My laptop which doens't have as much CPU, RAM or Video power as my tower PC runs Civ4 great. So...

I noticed that when I crossed into a new era that the music started playing again. Do you hear the other sound effects?

What version of Windows are you running? You probably do not have to worry about this as the OS will take care of application priority. I searched around a bit on Google and found other people in a similar state. Looks like if your graphics card does not support TnL there is no driver that...

I agree with Neo, rpriha. This kind of problem that I had in another game (world of warcraft) was a result of temprature problem in my case. I could have sworn that it was the game because everything else ran just fine. Turns out that WoW was really pressing my hardware to the limit and...

I too have this problem on my PC at home. Its a 3200+ Athlon with 1 gb ram 8x AGP FX5900XT (with 128 MB RAM on video) and a 7200 RPM hard drive. I should not be having performance issues with this kind of game. I have no problems at all with my laptop which has less horsepower in all areas...