cpu

Hey guys, Apologies if this is a dumb question and I've missed something obvious in my searches but the topic came up in conversation elsewhere and I remember people using the 64bit 4GB patch tool on Civ4 (EDIT: Steam & GoG copies come pre-patched for 4GB & don't need this) and getting...

Hello everyone, I am a CIV IV BTS fan since I was a kid, and my dad first showed me the game. I grew up playing it, and did so in multiple computers and never had any issues making the game run at all. Now, with my newest acquisition, the game can't go over 5 fps, freezes A LOT, and is...

I don't want to be a bore with more performance-related posts, but I'm curious about the rigs that DoC players use and their experiences. I myself have far from a gaming rig, using a somewhat older lenovo laptop with 8GB ram, an intel core i5 CPU running at 2.6 GHz, and internal graphics with...

I am in the process of upgrading my CPU and wanted to get some feedback from the Civ community because Civ is my most played game. I am into a lot of mods, I usually have 60-80 enabled at a time. I am considering the Ryzen 3900X vs Intel i9 9900K. My initial thought was Ryzen because of higher...

Hello, I recently bought an Alienware Aurora R7. Whenever I play this game, the fans frequently start blowing really loud. The other day, I decided to download MSI Afterburner, and discovered that my CPU temp is reaching 90+ degrees Celsius at times. Is this normal? Is there anyway to...

Not many forum topics here these days, and I'm curious about this one, so why not? Has anyone bought/built an AMD Ryzen desktop? Their high-end ($320 - $500) 8-core line came out in March, and their mid-range 4 ($170 - $200) to 6 ($220 - $250) core line came out a week or two ago, and overall...

So I played a fair bit of Civ 5, and being one of "those" players who rerolls the start if it's not to their liking (Seriously, why doesn't Civ 6 have a Restart Game option on turn 0?) I was shocked to find that my loading time for a new game seemed considerably longer this time around! Now I...