Can't see terrain in Civ 4

[fenriswolf]

Just bought Civ 4 and I can't see most terrain.
I have a ATI Rage Pro which wosks fine on Civ 3.
But I guess I'll have to get a new video card ( computer also ? ).

I'm thinking of getting a motherboard with integrated graphics
built in. The motherboard has an Nvidia 6150 ( a stripped down
6200 ).

Does anyone know if a 6150 will play/display Civ 4 ?

Thanks for any into.

 

[Akhenaton]

Does anyone know if a 6150 will play/display Civ 4?

It meets the MSR and there are reports of it working, albeit not free of the same crashing problems that are plaguing discrete design graphics as well.

However, performance will be quite restricted, meaning low resolutions/detail levels.

You should also ensure that you have enough RAM, 512MB is the MSR, but you can't play even normal sized maps with that free of paging. 1GB is a practical minimum of optimal performance (more than that doesn't help, except perhaps with some insane >UXGA res huge map/epic length/deity level combo).

 

[jabot]

My gf had that prob. We downloaded the patch and got the game to work displaying graphics and all, but with wierd xml errors, then it crashed very hard and won't work anymore. Sorry not more specific.