Can Your System Handle Civ IV?
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reddwarfcro
Chieftain
First of all HELLO 
to everybody on this forum, forum is great and i read you alot, but this is first time i want to say/ask something.
I still wait for DSL at home so i can't test configuration at home (my job computer failed
no more civ on work) everything is strong enough except GC i have saphire radeon 9200 with 256 DDR and every single game (including Battlefield 2) work on it. does anyone know or have this card and can say that card will work?
thx
to everybody on this forum, forum is great and i read you alot, but this is first time i want to say/ask something.I still wait for DSL at home so i can't test configuration at home (my job computer failed
no more civ on work) everything is strong enough except GC i have saphire radeon 9200 with 256 DDR and every single game (including Battlefield 2) work on it. does anyone know or have this card and can say that card will work?thx
3Rivers
Chieftain
It says I'm OK - but I was really hoping I'd have to buy a new computer like I had to for CivIII. I'll have to check my husband's computer too....
darkdude
Warlord
It says minimum CPU speed is 1 MHz; I guess a typo slipped in there. I really don't want to imagine how the game runs with that speed 
darkdude
Warlord
That would not be good enough, because with a good video card but a slow CPU you're still in trouble. But I agree that it would be nice idea if they could come up with a list of typical systems with which the game runs acceptably. But I suspect they would still go over the minimum configurations that some people might be willing to play the game with; stating the current minimum requirements makes sure they won't get too many 'hey you said I could run this game, but it runs like cr*p; I want my money back!' complaints which would be bad publicity.wotan321 said:
So I think if you want to be sure if the game will run on your system before you buy there's no other option than to wait a week or so after the game comes out to check on other people's experiences and then decide if you want to buy it after all.
As an alternative they could maybe come up with a benchmark application that simulates the game behaviour and lets you give a feel for how the game would play but I suspect they have more urgent things to do with the release date so close.
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Genocidicbunny
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Hah, i tried it with my good pc. I passed so badly, hell i had the max bars in every required and recommended category. This is beyond overkill.
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It says that I fail both the minimum & recommended, however I'm above the requirements for both minimum & recommended in everything except video-card.Confused by that - my nVidia 6600GT is too slow?
I think I'll take my chances 
marshal zhukov
good economist wannabe
My PC has only 8 MB of Video memory, and it is a PIII, 733 MHz with 128 Mb of Ram PC133 
. And I have no money for upgrades
Guess I will just stick to Capitalism II, because I can't stand the thought of playing Civilization III, knowing that there is a Civilization IV that I can't play.
. And I have no money for upgrades Guess I will just stick to Capitalism II, because I can't stand the thought of playing Civilization III, knowing that there is a Civilization IV that I can't play.
TerraHero said:
Where did you find out you'll be able to run Elder Scrolls: Oblivion at high detail? That's the other game I'm really looking forward to besides Civ4, but with those graphics I'm a bit scared I won't be able to run it with a good framerate and good detail.
My system will rock Civ4 though, which I pretty much expected
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SRTest only rates your system compared to the game's Minimum and Recommended Requirements That's fair, what most of us really want to know is if our computers can run Civ4 with all the pretty graphics cranked up to max? And that'll be well beyond even the Recommended req.
Personally, I have an AthlonXP 2100+ with 1/2 gig of ram. I recently upgraded my video card from a GeForce4 to a Radeon 9800, and I'm planning to upgrade my proc to AthlonXP 3000+ and double or possibly triple my memory. But this isn't exclusively for Civ4. I recently bought Rome TW: Barbarian Invasion and the night battles are unplayable at max quality, so I decide to upgrade my PC to the highest proc my motherboard will allow.
I doubt with my current hardware I can run Civ4 at max quality -- regardless of what SRTest says -- but I'm hoping that after I upgrade it'll be adequate.
Personally, I have an AthlonXP 2100+ with 1/2 gig of ram. I recently upgraded my video card from a GeForce4 to a Radeon 9800, and I'm planning to upgrade my proc to AthlonXP 3000+ and double or possibly triple my memory. But this isn't exclusively for Civ4. I recently bought Rome TW: Barbarian Invasion and the night battles are unplayable at max quality, so I decide to upgrade my PC to the highest proc my motherboard will allow.
I doubt with my current hardware I can run Civ4 at max quality -- regardless of what SRTest says -- but I'm hoping that after I upgrade it'll be adequate.
i found out i can play that stuff on high detail rather as sort of a guess seeing as games like CoD2 Demo and FEAR demo run smooth at high detail and i got a good 3Dmark score (latest 3Dmark).
If you can meet that i recon morrowind; Oblivion wont be a problem but hoenstly i run most of those games on medium detail to keep teh speed alive and i often fingh high detail uglier then medium as it tries to be to realistic and then it clearly shows that it isnt.
Its like Santaclaus, you know he aitn real but a little xmass story or soem santa gig is still etnertaining. But if someone is trying his freaking best to convince you he IS real its juz anoying.
If you can meet that i recon morrowind; Oblivion wont be a problem but hoenstly i run most of those games on medium detail to keep teh speed alive and i often fingh high detail uglier then medium as it tries to be to realistic and then it clearly shows that it isnt.
Its like Santaclaus, you know he aitn real but a little xmass story or soem santa gig is still etnertaining. But if someone is trying his freaking best to convince you he IS real its juz anoying.
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I think I'll be able to run Elder Scrolls IV smoothly, just worried about my video card as a choke point. I don't want to have to turn everything all the way down. Btw, it's not Morrowind: Oblivion, because it doesn't take place in Morrowind. Elder Scrolls 3 was called Morrowind because it took place in the province of Tamriel called Morrowind. Elder Scrolls 4 could be called Cyrodil, since that's where your base is, but since it has to do with Tamriel's hell, Oblivion, that's what they're calling it, since it sounds coolerTerraHero said:
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