Recent content by tom123

As far as I am aware, it is just Dx9 and Dx11.

That would be because you do not have a DX11 capable graphics card... You need either an ATI 5xxx series or an Nvidia GTX 4xx series GPU to run in DX11 mode.

Couldn't resist posting this little gem I found yesterday. And if you want to see the rest of the thread, it is here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=84982 I wanted to find the GDR screenshot, so searched for it, and this was the first result. It's quite amusing that...

This is normal behaviour for Steam games. You won't be able to install it (which, lets be honest, will take five minutes) until the game is unlocked. This is because it isn't officially released until that time. Think yourselves lucky though. Because Valve have no concept of localisation, as...

I really hope my Amazon release day delivery arrives on Friday, I leave for Uni early on Saturday, so no chance to check the post. :/

Build it in a city on a small peninsula with a one-tile wide path to the main land? As long as it is culturally isolated, and the peninsula is completely surrounded by water, you have a one tile GW.

I am sure I remember making a post about something similar quite a while ago after a really slow game which I managed to make a massive GW. A quick check through Photobucket found this: You can't actually *see* my GW in the pic, but it surrounded the entire continent EDIT: I found the...

It doesn't say estimated anywhere on the page. Autumn doesn't start until the 21st of September, so that can't be it.

Someone may already have posted this, but here it is anyway. According the Steam, Civ V will be released on the 1st of September. Source: http://store.steampowered.com/app/50100/ Only 6 months, 1 week and 4 days to go!

Well, hopefully this means that there will be performance increases on other quad cores, not just intel's (Phenom II 965 ftw!)

At least Isabella and Charlemange are not required for this challenge.

The title says it all really, Civlization 4 is number 4 on the PC Gamer UK Top 100. You can read the full article here: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=169961

I'm not so sure. Given the scale of the game, I don't really think it would work.

You will only be able to see the latest version of Direct X in the DxDiag report. Dx11 will not overwrite Dx9/10, when a new version is installed, it is a seperate entity to other version of Dx. I had no problems installing Civ 4/BTS on my 32bit Win 7 Pro laptop and 64bit Win 7 Home premium PC...

Get a Phenom II x4 965, mine only cost £145, which is only £4 more than a Q8300, and it has a much higher clock speed. Example: I installed Civ 4 on my new PC, with a stock 965 @ 3.4GHz, and loaded the 'Next War' scenario, which found was very CPU intensive on my laptop (2GHz Core 2 Duo), and...