Beanicles2
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Hello all.
I have the Steam version of Civilisation 3 running on a new HP desktop PC with a 6-core i5 (3.0Ghz), 8GB RAM, Intel Graphics and a 256GB SSD run-in Windows 10 64 bit.
I have it running at my monitor's full resolution of 2560 x 1440 but the game leaves a lot to be desired. I'm playing it on a Huge map with conquest victory. I don't get to see any of the death animations in combat - instead I get Windows' spinning blue wheel. Equally, at the end of my turn I get the blue wheel for an absolute age (maybe 2-3 minutes each turn - I'm at 1110AD).
I understand that it's only single-core performance that Civ will take advantage of but is there anything I can do to improve things? I would have expected a greater leap forward in performance in the 15 years since I used to play the game!!
Also, extrapolating from this point, what is the best conceivable PC one could build for playing Civ 3 with the greatest performance? AMD or Intel CPU? How much RAM can the game make use of? What graphics card would actually accelerate the game's engine? What version of Windows would be best?
I have the Steam version of Civilisation 3 running on a new HP desktop PC with a 6-core i5 (3.0Ghz), 8GB RAM, Intel Graphics and a 256GB SSD run-in Windows 10 64 bit.
I have it running at my monitor's full resolution of 2560 x 1440 but the game leaves a lot to be desired. I'm playing it on a Huge map with conquest victory. I don't get to see any of the death animations in combat - instead I get Windows' spinning blue wheel. Equally, at the end of my turn I get the blue wheel for an absolute age (maybe 2-3 minutes each turn - I'm at 1110AD).
I understand that it's only single-core performance that Civ will take advantage of but is there anything I can do to improve things? I would have expected a greater leap forward in performance in the 15 years since I used to play the game!!
Also, extrapolating from this point, what is the best conceivable PC one could build for playing Civ 3 with the greatest performance? AMD or Intel CPU? How much RAM can the game make use of? What graphics card would actually accelerate the game's engine? What version of Windows would be best?