Recent content by pulzar

This seems like a separate argument from the rest. I don't know of any better 4x games than the Civ series, but I certainly spent way more time on Civ 3, Civ 4, and Civ 5 release version before I got bored. Still Civ is the best 4x, and that's why we're all here. That's tough to argue. But...

I've had some good fun with the game in the first 50 hours or so, and started getting frustrated with most of the above listed problems in the next 50, and, frankly, a little bored... I could likely tolerate many of them, apart from the AI which makes even Deity games challenging only in the...

It appears, at least in my experience, that most of the delay of "AIs taking their turns" is Civ doing animations of moves that we can't see, as silly as it sounds. Turning on "quick moves" makes the game go significantly faster. Fast enough that I hardly have time to do anything other look...

I've played every civ since the original... Civ VI is a pleasant surprise, it offers many interesting new mechanics, some of them meaningfully different (and likely better!) than old ones. However, about 50 hours into it, it's starting to get a little boring and annoying due to various little...

Doesn't that seem a little too easy? The AI is so bad with their navy, that you can do this at about any difficulty level. Similar to the earlier argument that we don't need fighters+bombers since AI doesn't know how to use fighters, we might not want to have insanely powerful ships until AI...

I'm playing on a Pangaea map, I'm all the way on the left, and I'm fighting Americans who are all the way on the right. A huge Greek empire is between us, and I have Open Borders with them. It takes me a while to get my army across and have everything positioned to start making a push against...

If you put Steam into offline mode, you can run as many computers as you want at the same time. It's only preventable through terms of agreement/laws/ethics. Now, you lose online/multiplayer capabilities, which is usually why you'd want to run multiple computers at the same time, and that's...

In this case, both PCs will present the same IP, as they are most likely behind a common router in the same house.

Steam just downloaded an update before I started Civ 5, and I think the version went from 1.0.0.7 to 1.0.0.17... I'm not 100% sure what the original version was. Was there a patch released this morning? I can't find any news on it.

I second that... Since Revolutions causes rapid increase of unrest during anarchy, almost every civilization is in deep trouble at the end of those 7 turns, with the weaker ones already broken up for sure. 2 or 3 turns is about as much as it should do without it being a huge game changer.

Has this gotten fixed, or is there a way to manually patch it up? It puts a pretty severe limitation on air battles late in the game :(.

Well, I solved the problem by trying it out on Vista... No problems at all, either starting from scratch or loading a late saved game that had problems under XP. I'm guessing there's something in the ATI XP drivers causing the problem.

Unfortunately, HD4670 is such a new card that no driver before 8.7 or so will install :(.

Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a shot!

I have 512MB on it -- that shouldn't be the problem.