Can Your System Handle Civ IV?

[Zhahz]

My system will crush Civ IV and it's not even top of the line or that beefy (AMD3000, 1g ram, 9800 pro). I can't wait.

 

[Olive]

I have two laptops, one a PII 2.4 Ghz with 512 mb and a 32 mb Radeon 7500 graphics card, and the other a Centrino 1.7 ghz with that weird intel graphics card 82852/82855 with 64 mb . Is there hope for me, or should I cancel my preorder. Thanks in advance for help.

 

[Moosebox]

I have two laptops, one a PII 2.4 Ghz with 512 mb and a 32 mb Radeon 7500 graphics card, and the other a Centrino 1.7 ghz with that weird intel graphics card 82852/82855 with 64 mb . Is there hope for me, or should I cancel my preorder. Thanks in advance for help.

MINIMUM

* Windows 2000/XP with SP1 or higher
* Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1.2 GHZ
* 256 MB RAM
* 64 MB graphics card with Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)
* DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
* DVD-ROM drive
* 1.7 GB free hard disk space


You just meet the minimun Video card requirement. So you should be able to run it. Just don't expect anything great.

 

[Tombfyre_04]

This is great news...

Both my Athlon64 3200+ & Radeon 9800PRO and my new Pentium-M 1.73ghz with a Geforce 6800 Go! will have no issues running it... going to need two copies after all.

 

[gryphius]

This is a cool utility, however it doesn't appear to actually _test_ anything... all it does is report information gathered about the system... what we really need is a utility that runs some basic graphics/sound etc. that can actually test the performance of your system... something that can report out response times, cpu usage for 3d graphics, or other advanced gaming features... i'm running a 2.4 ghz laptop, which is not nearly as powerful as a 2.4 ghz desktop, nor is a laptop video card as powerful as a desktop. The number requirements really means nothing. With all the different chipsets etc. you can combine, requiring a 1.4 ghz processor doesn't give you any useful information, except maybe a very rough estimate of what is needed.

 

[alamo]

Does the dxdiag do any of this?

Does someone have a definitive answer on T&L being necessary?

 

[JoAT]

MINIMUM

* Windows 2000/XP with SP1 or higher
* Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1.2 GHZ
* 256 MB RAM
* 64 MB graphics card with Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)
* DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
* DVD-ROM drive
* 1.7 GB free hard disk space

Ugh... this is why I ike console gaming better. I can know up front, without getting my hopes up, that my system will or won't play a game.

Now I have to go our and replace my wife's PIII 1GHz, Win ME machine with something better...

JoAT

 

[ERLoft]

Ugh... this is why I ike console gaming better. I can know up front, without getting my hopes up, that my system will or won't play a game.

Now I have to go our and replace my wife's PIII 1GHz, Win ME machine with something better...

JoAT

EEEEEK! Windows ME? God save us all, I thought that was eradicated years ago!

 

[ERLoft]

Let's see here...

3.4 P4 - pass
2gb PC3200 Dual Channel - pass
6800GT 256mb- pass

I think I'm ready, can I have my game now please? I wonder how fast I'll be able to run turns with huge maps. I used to do 24 civ huge+ maps on Civ3, and it got pretty slow after the middle ages. Although that was on the old 1.8 P4, 256mb, 64mb video card system.

 

[Mujadaddy]

PLEASE STICKY THIS THREAD!

Why on earth would this thread need to be stickied? It's just a poll, basically. The thread that needs to be stickied is the one WITH THE SYSTEM REQS in it, which I believe it is already...I think...

 

[Bredero]

OK...

The test won't access my computer.... just says downloading... and at bottom DONE.. but nothing happens. I have allowed popups but no change..

I have an inspiron 600m 1.5 GH, 1 GB of Ram, Radeon 9000, 32 mb...

I am a Civ junkie but do I need a new notebook???

 

[alamo]

You are good to go.

There is a handy reference page linked in my 'Video Card Q+A' thread.

It says: T+L ok (Vertex 1.1 + DirectX 8.1)

For the tester, you may have a blocker of some type interferring with the object download.

 

[SimaYi]

I passed i neverything but the video card section as well,which is a bit odd. Oh well, I'm sure I can still run the game. >_>

 

[Doomscout]

MY SYSTeM ALL PASS!

 

[BearMan]

okay, thinking about buying this to replace our old mobile computer:

AMD Sempron Mobile 1800 MHz,
512 MB
SiS M760GX Graphic

(complete info : http://www.theclickstore.se/product_viewer?product_id=94331)

will this run civ4 fine ?
I don't really know how to rate the graphics on mobile computers ?

(Our stationary passes so it will not be kicked out just yet =)

 

[anjinsan1966]

Passed all

 

[Bast]

I passed the min requirement test. YAY!

 

[EliteLord]

everything passed with full green except my video card Radeon 9550, it passed with 3 greens

 

[HannuP]

Passed!

Video card (ATI X800 XL) got only 5 out of 6 green bars, though.

 

[Velvet-Glove]

My PC is coming up to 3 years old but still up to the job, according to this tool, yay! I'm quite chuffed that my gear has done so well - I built this PC myself from scratch. It has a Pentium 4 CPU, which is fine, and a GeForce 4 graphics card which should still be man enough for the job... I've updated the drivers, though.