Can Your System Handle Civ IV?

[Wanderer]

Civilization IV
System Requirements Lab Analysis

Congratulations, you can run this game because your system meets the Minimum requirements. If you want to see how you meet all the Recommended requirements to make this product really fly, look at the Recommended section below.

But recommended, it that derned graphics card

Video Card
Recommended: 64 MB 3D Video Card with Hardware Transform & Lighting (Radeon 9800+ / GeForce 5600+)
You Have: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 (GeForce4 Ti 4200) FAIL: Sorry, your video card does not meet this recommended requirement. Upgrading to a more powerful video card will make all your applications look better. Click the 'We Recommend' button to see some great options.
Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 64 MB , You have - 128.0 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes

 

[NinjaCool]

Mine says

 

[madcat_lives]

My computer is way over kill on this. I just hope My graph card will run homm 5

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Wherever this is, this should NEVER be lower than the second half of the first page.

STICKY THIS THREAD! I BEG YOU!

 

[doronron]

My system will handle Civ IV. Same bar graph as Ninja's.

I'm also a fellow HoMM fan. Played Heroes 3 for threes years straight. Hated HoMM4, though.

 

[Willem]

It's not that accurate. It says I have a 1.5 ghz processor overclocked to 1.7. I actually have just a 1.46 ghz that's not overclocked. Still good enough to run the game though, and everything else is beyond recommended.

 

[The Person]

Mine says

Mine as well.

 

[kettyo]

My NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 failed the recommended qualification (though surpassed minimum specs).

It's not a big problem though because in few days i shall buy a laptop with an ati mobility radeon X800. I think it should make it.

 

[kettyo]

@viz, @Junuxx: I actually am a civ junkie, considering I never would have bought a laptop with 3d graphics if I hadn't heard in february that civ4 was going to be 3D! The only thing I need 3D for!
I never play anything else but civ...

btw, in general i can really recommend the asus a3823glh, it is now at only little more than a 1000euros if you look hard enough. especially the fact that only one memory slot is used is nice and of course the display (1400x1050), i hope the radeon 9700 will be fast enough for this resolution for civ4, that would be so cool.... (we'll see...)

for anyone now looking for a laptop able to run civ4, probably more recent graphics should be recommended, like the radeon x700 .. of course, those are a lot more expensive, so as always, it depends on budget...

My boss's laptop with Radeon 9700 runs San Andreas quite good.

 

[kettyo]

I have exactly the same card (64MB version) and I passed the recommended test as well. Though it hit the nail right on the head: my drivers are outdated (the only problem with laptop gaming)

Fortunately with Ati-based laptops you can use the omega drivers which are always the latest made from the desktop driver.

 

[marshal zhukov]

http://www.srtest.com

Try it out:

1. Select Game.
2. Click "Can You Run It?"
3. Click 'Yes' to pop up window(nothing harmful)

Enjoy.

Thanks Moosebox.
I really enjoyed reading the analysis after the test was done. Really cool site.

By the way I failed the test.

 

[spankey]

It took a 1024 MD ram chip, and a struggle with a new NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 PCI (I don't have a AGP or PCI express) over three days, but I finally can "rock with this product". $200.00 later, but happy as all can be.....

 

[Santanz Child]

LOL im 5 bars over the minimum and 2 bars over the recomended

 

[bky1701]

LMAO. My computer is so good it does not even recognize it.

 

[Vraslosken]

I have too little RAM, only 190 MB. Is it a hopeless case, or will it be playable?

 

[sav]

If T&L is the only thing failing me, will that be a problem? Everything else is double the minimums, at least...

 

[NinjaCool]

LMAO. My computer is so good it does not even recognize it.

Hmmm trying to play from a secret goverment facility?

 

[aahz_capone]

Holy crap dude!

 

[Jamesds]

Does Win ME suffice for Civ4?? It does for Pirates, and I've read Pirates uses the same 'system' as Civ4.

 

[vStauffenberg]

My boss's laptop with Radeon 9700 runs San Andreas quite good.

thanks, that's good to hear...!