Am I the only one that had no problems with the game?

[Strider]

I had zero installation problems, I haven ever been kicked out of the game, and short of some disappearing improvements when I play on a huge map in the late game.. everything works fine. No errors or anything.

Was I just extremely lucky or something, because it seems not to work for everyone else.

 

[Chopperhead]

YES you are. lol no lots of people have it working fine with ZERO problems no video skipping nothing at all. I was one of those people but it keeps freezing after a few minutes of play now so scratch me off that list.

 

[Sorceresss]

I had zero installation problems, I haven ever been kicked out of the game, and short of some disappearing improvements when I play on a huge map in the late game.. everything works fine. No errors or anything. Was I just extremely lucky or something, because it seems not to work for everyone else.

Same for me : zero problem. After reading the legitimate complaints of gamers who own more recent & powerful systems than mine, I have concluded that it must be some weird mystical luck.

For example. My videocard is a two-year old FX 5200 and it has worked perfectly with the recent 81.85 drivers...but I have read many posts by FX 5200 owners who have had to rollback to previous drivers because of major problems with the 81.85.

I do not understand : and they call it "computer science".

 

[dickie]

Mine has worked fine with my 6600GT and the new drivers too, I have noticed a lot of people complaining about the new nVidia drivers causing problems. My copy works perfectly

 

[Jecrell]

Mine works perfectly. I just had to update my ATI drivers.

 

[Equisilus]

There's just too many possible scenarios for systems to really say why you're safe from glitches so far. For my part, on a home-built brand-new high-end system, I've experienced some choppy wonder movies (in sound, most often, but also in the video from time to time, but only on the large/huge maps) and I've noticed a couple 'cannot load file' messages pop up where event notices usually occur in game in the last game I played. Overall, it's been a fairly good experience, even playing with all the settings maxed out at 1680x1050 (running on a GeForce 7800GTX with the 81.85 drivers and an Athlon x2 4400+).

 

[Psyringe]

Was I just extremely lucky or something, because it seems not to work for everyone else.

Based on the data gathered here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=139992 I think that you weren't especially lucky, but that a large majority of players is experiencing no (or very little) problems.

 

[MrCynical]

It runs fine on my laptop with an old FX 5200 graphics card, haven't had a single CTD or major graphics glitch since I got it. I didn't even have to update the drivers. True it runs rather slow in the late game, but it's nowhere near as bad as civ 3 was in that respect.

 

[Undertaker798]

Nope, no problems. Fixed themselves after a few days of play.

 

[Strider]

Maybe Civ4 just likes FX 5200 cards, because I have that exact same one .

 

[cleverhandle]

I've yet to see any issues on my fairly pedestrian rig (FX5700 Ultra, 512 MB, 2500 Barton). It's a little slow for some operations, especially late in the game. But that's to be expected with my specs. But never a crash, no graphical glitches, or anything that really detracts from gameplay.

 

[magimix]

No problems for me - everything has been peachy. I was somewhat apprehensive after the initial US release when there seemed to be much doom and gloom about issues with ATI graphics cards, but my fears came to naught.

I have a fairly pedestrian system (XP2400, 1GB RAM, 128MB ATI 9800, SB Audigy), and it really does run nicely at my monitors native res (1280x1024).

 

[AER]

I have a monster PC (7800GTX, 3800 X2, 1 GB RAM) and it played smoothly from the first day. The only two very minor bugs I see are that the intro movie seems to be at a low framerate, and that every once in a while a big stack of units will have animation problems (the thing where the units will look like they started walking in some direction even though you didn't move them.)

I would call that basically bug-free. I know it shows less bugs for me than most recent games (with the exception of Quake IV, which was insanely well-polished.)

 

[kaslks75]

No problems here either in spite of having an ATI radeon 9600 (using Omega driver).

The only time I had a problem was when I tried to run it in a window - then it crashed constantly.....went back to full screen and it runs great.

Pentium 4, 2.8GHz w/ 1.5GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 w/ Omega driver & 128MB video memory
SoundBlaster Audigy 2

 

[Sylphic]

@AER, I have the exact same system as you do Yea, mine is a monster too.

and Nope, you aren't the only one with no problems. Seems like, ATi card users are having more problems than most , and obviously the newer your system the better your performance.

 

[Mujadaddy]

Strider--no problems here

 

[sayhey]

It work fine for me.

 

[mweather]

People are more vocal about negative things. Like the president, people complain about the war, the economy, the cost of gas, the response to katrina, his opposition to a ban on torture, the patriot act, etc. But you never hear about all the good things he does like...

Ok, bad example.

 

[Smidlee]

The only problem I've notice is when playing Rhye's earth map (bigger than huge) with 18 civs is when I zoomed out to world view with most of the map revealed it's a bit laggy. I got amd 3800+ GF 7800 gt but only 1 GB of ram. It seems when the game reaches above 1gb (around 1.2g) when the lag slowly begins. Got two sticks of 512 ordered so I hope this will solve this issue.

 

[Velvet-Glove]

I am quite happy with my game, thank you. I have had one crash to the desktop and one spluttering movie but I consider those to be negligible problems when you take into account some 40-odd hours of gameplay so far (at least!). I had zero problems installing (UK DVD version).

Doubling my RAM to 1GB has cured a lot of the earlier lag I experienced so I am a pretty happy bunny right now.

It's nice to read a positive thread for a change.

System: Pentium4 2.4GHz, 1GB PC2700 RAM, GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB graphics card + latest nVidia drivers, WinXP Home + all updates.