BTS 317 - forces lower graphics than 3.13

[Bjornlo]

System:
Cpu: q6850 Quad core 3ghz
ram: 8gb
Video card: Nvidia 8800 gts g92
OS: Vista 64 Ultimate
Monitor native res 1920x1200


With V3.13, the game could be played at max every setting.
With v3.17 the game says the PC does not meet the minimum levels and forces the graphics to be set to LOW and most features to be disabled. defaults to 1024x768 res. Re-setting the graphics to the level the hardware actually supports requires a restart of the application, which again forces the artificially low settings.

 

[Wolfshanze]

I haven't tried v3.17 yet... but has anyone else had this problem?

 

[Bjornlo]

It might be problems due to Vista 64bit. But after 4 fails in a row, it mysteriously worked the 5th time. I went in to the civ4 folder to see if there might be a INI file I could tweak to force the check to NOT take place... and I accidentically fumble-clicked on the MCL file which launched both the game and some media player. BTS did not complain about my systems capabilities. I exited both BTS and the player and restarted BTS and it seems to work thus far.

 

[Balderstrom]

The patch may have updated DirectX too, I haven't dug into that area yet. But at least on my system it(the patch) did seem to pause a long time on the checking Direct-X part before continuing.

 

[kazapp]

Can't you disable/override the check for minimum settings?

 

[r_rolo1]

3.17 updates Directx ( in fact more than half of the patch is the directx )

 

[ori]

Can't you disable/override the check for minimum settings?

just set hideminspecs to 1 in the civilizationIV.ini