Can Your System Handle Civ IV?

[Moosebox]

My desktop pass's with flyin colors but my laptop fails due to the graphics card................is it difficult to update a graphics card on a laptop? my lap top passes execpt for the lighting part

If everything else passes except for the TL, you may be fine ok run it. Don't be going out and buying a new laptop until you've tried the game first is my suggestion

 

[doronron]

I'm in a good mood. Just got notification that my new computer should arrive sometime on October 5th. Guess I won't be running Civ IV on my laptop afterall.

 

[dannyevilcat]

I ran it again with my new 7800GT for fun... it rated it only 2 green bars above the passing level

 

[sela1s1son]

I have an AMD Athalon 9550, I think that'll be sufficient.

However, while I passed with flying colors it seems, I am confused by one blurb:
You Have: 2.17 GHz Overclocked To 3 GHz

What the hay does that mean? Thank goodness Civ Iv will run just nicely.

Battlefield 2 is so much fun! DOWN WITH (insert faction I'm opposing here).

 

[jimkirk]

i dont think the specs are final yet on civ 4 so we really still dont know what specs we need

 

[strhopper]

by the way moose box thanks for this web site

 

[Genocidicbunny]

HA, it said that my processor (on my good comp) is at 3.4ghz but it doesnt pass, even though civ 4 needs only 1.5 or so for recommended. First it passes me when im under, now this

 

[Moosebox]

by the way moose box thanks for this web site

hey no problem...just thought it would cut down on the many "can I run it" threads...which will probably start coming more often now with the release date inching closer.

unfortunately it turned out to not be 100% perfect...but whatever...

 

[Karaman]

I am on Athlon64@2Ghz with 1GB RAM and GF6600 I think It will run even in a VM

 

[Drake Rlugia]

My video card is supposedly not good enough.

I have a Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controlle..I figured it could play Civ4 because it can handle The Sims2..

 

[Corbeau]

My system seems to pwn the system requirements. The only thing even close to the line was my video card, and I could buy a better one for cheap.

 

[Quentin]

Passed for the minimum, failed the recommended because of the video card (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440). Only thing I'm worried about is the disc space requirement, because the test says I have 3GB free space (although checking C: tells me I have 3.87GB).

 

[NinjaCool]

No worries the program might just take 1GB at a time to measure and your pc is correct for sure
If you would need more space, just delete some programs to free up space.

 

[Vraslosken]

It said i have 1.6 GHz Overclocked To 2.8 GHz, but that's FAAAAR more than i have. But anyway, it's the RAM that gets me. I only have 190.

 

[viz]

Great tool.

"Congratulations, your system will Rock this product! Wish we had a system that hot you lucky dog."

That's the message it gives me.

Athlon 64 FX-55,
Geforce 6800 Ultra,
1Gb RAM.

 

[bballaust]

Can someone reccomend a good PCI graphics card that will run civ IV? This is practically the only game I will play on my cpu so I'm only looking for something in the range of 50 bucks, yea i know sounds really cheap (and maybe it is ) but I really don't need and can't afford a top of the line graphics card.
Thanks.

 

[Moosebox]

SAPPHIRE 100112-BK Radeon 9250 128MB DDR PCI Video Card - OEM $49.99

 

[Belboz]

High Minimum Pass! Woo Hoo!

 

[TastySheriff]

Ill be able to play it, but it cant ID my cpu (AthlonXP Barton 2500) and i was suprised that my crappy video card (Sapphire Radeon 9500) not only passed the civ4 test with flying colors, but also the San Andreas recommended settings. And i was gonna upgrade (probibly still will)

 

[Rexflex]

"Congratulations, your system will Rock this product! Wish we had a system that hot you lucky dog."

I got that quote too.