Recent content by limpkit

From the symptoms you describe, I would say that you diagnosis is correct.

After a certain level of zoom-out Civ4 does not show 3D graphics anymore, just 2D ones, which dramatically reduces the load of the game, so what you describe when zooming out is normal. What isn't normal is the lag you experience, unless you have a very old computer or too little RAM memory...

:D sorry if I was confusing. You *could* just disable your swapfile with 4GB RAM. But like I said above, if you have 1GB RAM (or more as I should have add) just set the swap to something small like 512MB. That way if you ever manage to fill your 4GB RAM, your computer will still have a...

Good evening Sorceresss, it is an honor to have you responding to me, since I am new on this forum. I shall look into it, after all we learn until we die, right? Besides I have finished my M.Sc. in Computer Science back in 1998, so in the meantime something revolutionary could have come up, but...

Hi, Have you upgraded to XP Pro, or have you reinstalled XP Pro from scratch? Sometimes upgrading instead of reinstalling causes strange behaviour... Also check if you have the latest drivers for your graphics, sound and motherboard. If you need to update the drivers, do so before installing...

Yes, I have a laptop with a Mobility Radeon 7500 and the omega drivers work. Still, they didn't make much difference with Civ4 - it remains black-terrained and floating eye-balled. :rolleyes: But you should install them, they are very good perfomance wise. Since the file is 20MB large...

The perfect size for a swapfile is 0 (zero). The moment you start using the swapfile in your desktop computer for long time running applications you are in trouble and should get more RAM. I can give you three reasons for my statement: 1) Normal desktop performance of a computer...

Search google for sd4hide. Look for a link named SafeDisc 4 Hider 1.0 Make sure your anti-virus is running,download the file, and place it on your desktop. Place your Civ4 DVD in the drive, wait for the play menu to come up and close it. Execute sd4hide and click the Hide button. Launch...

Yes, maybe I should have specified this, but i *can* play a huge map perfectly well - at the beginning of the game. I guess it's the progressive build-up of other civs, with all their cities and units that drains memory in a not-so-efficient manner. Other than that, a Celeron 2.66MHz, 512MB and...

You are very much right in my opinion. I have been testing Windows Vista (beta2) and with 1GB RAM I have only 300MB free memory after entering the desktop. But it looks sooooo cool :D As a side note, the more I play Civ4 the more amazed I am at the depth and feel of the game. A rushed job...

I have a small swapfile of just 512MB because in my opinion, if the OS start using swapfile, you need to upgrade your RAM, because it is cheaper than having to replace your harddrive (when it dies of too much swapping a while later ;) ). Anyway as I said before YMMV, but I *do* have to say...

:D Well, that certainly is a way to solve the problem! But I think Fireaxis developers are good at their jobs so I'd expect the memory requirements to go down over time as patches for Civ4 roll out. As it is, the game's memory usage resembles more a prototype proof-of-concept than a beta...

Hi everyone :-) I just haven't seen this clearly stated but from my experience installing CIV4 in 9 computers over the last week I have to say that on the 4 computers where the game could be started and played, only in one of them which had 1GB RAM the game was playable. In the other 3 the...

Hello everyone, I have just registered only to post this. :) I've been reading this forum for the last few days trying to find a way to run Civ4 in my 2-year-old laptop without success, because I suffer from the floating-eyeballs & black-tiles problem (also know as the Cheshire cat syndrome...