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Caveman 2 Cosmos

you would be better off buying a new computer. It would be cheaper than upgrading your antiquated system. They no longer sell PCs with those specs! The cheapest of the new i3 processors have better graphics than your graphics card along with at least twice as much processing power! :)
 
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Thanks for your replies, guys. I'm guessing it's a RAM issue. I got the game running and then it crashed after about 45 minutes of game play. I have Windows XP, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS, 3.2 Ghz Pentium, 2.0 GB of RAM.

I did buy and install some extra RAM (2 GB) and did use the /3GB switch. That's when I found out that XP doesn't even recognize much over 3 GB of RAM. I didn't notice a difference so I removed the RAM.


More RAM is always better, there is simply no downfall at all to having 4 gigs of ram in XP. And people are incorrect when they say XP can't recognize it, its about how it is used. Haveing 4 gigs, basically means that XP will give 2 gigs to the user and 2 gigs for the os to work with. Cutting it back down to 2 gigs hurts what civ will have to work with by a lot. The 3GB swtich just shifts the system to using 1 gig, while the user gets 3 gigs, and that helps a lot for civs MAFS and runtime errors. Although i do notice my computer runs everything else better, espcaially multiple items when NOT using the /3gb... so my /3gb switch is my C2C mode of xp lol.
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Stormwind is correct in the 3.25 ram thing, but since you said you had extra 2 gigs anways might as well use it. But yeah, its not quite as simple as I explained it, but with Pagefiles, and how program adderss RAM it can be very complicated. Hope you get it to work soon! its a great game. Also, the BTS.exe is allowed <3GB address by default, so you won't have to DL the program to fix it, as we used to have to for Warlords, which wasn't.
 
32bit OSes can't use more than ca 3,25GB RAM. Still better than having only 2GB. The 3GB switch is important though because as Aevum said, it allows programs to use 3GB of memory (and that is RAM + swap file).
 
I was guessing that it was a RAM problem. Thanks for your explanations about the 3GB switch. I hadn't heard it explained that easily before.

I had to laugh when I read puttincomputers's advice to get a new computer to replace my antiquated one. He's so right! I've been putting that off for as long as possible. CIV5 was released on my birthday and I knew I shouldn't bother with it because of the system requirements. (But, from what I've heard, it's not all that great anyway -- at least I've been convincing myself of that.)

If I was getting a new computer, do you guys have any suggestions as to the specs it should include? (Other than playing big games like this, my "biggest" application would be video editing projects.)

Again, thanks for your comments. Someday I'll be able to play C2C!
 
If money isn't that much of an issue I would go with this

Intel i5-2500k
Socket 1155 P67 series chipset mainboard (my preference is Gigabyte/MSI but thats a personal one)
Radeon HD 6870 (if playing newer games like Skyrim, Bf3 and the like, otherwise maybe 6770 or even lower)
4-8GB RAM (RAM is currently very cheap)

And get Windows 7 64bit, especially when going for 8GB RAM.

If you need to look for every penny you can save maybe 100+ $ when going with an AMD Hexa Core and 970 series mainboard.
 
Along with the 3GB/Switch make sure your Video performance settings are set to best performance or Custom, But Not to "let windows...." choice.

If you know where this is I would advise doing it. I would also advise putting the 2GB of ram back in you machine.

If you don't know where to set your video Performance settings right click on My Computer select Properties then when the popup appears select the Advanced tab. 1st subsection is Performance, click settings. This opens Performance Options 1st tab. If it's set on "let windows..." change it to Best performance. Or if you know some of the "Custom" settings you would want choose it and add those settings you might want.

Next click the Advanced tab. 1st 2 sections choose Programs. 3rd section is Virtual memory and where you set your paging file size. Check what size is allocated for the paging file. If you have put the other 2GB of ram back in your system you would want this paging file size to be at least 2048MB and probably max at 4096MB.

The bigger the paging file the less ram is hogged by windows and the game.

When C2C was 1st introduced I was using my old system, Win XP Pro 32bit with a P4 2.8ghz with 1.5GB of ram and a 128MB video card with shader 2.0. But I soon built a new computer with Win XP Pro 64bit with a Dual Core IBM E7400 chipset on a sata Gigabyte Mobo and 8GB of DDR2 1066Mhz ram and a a ATI Radeon HD4650 with 512MB DDR2 on board ram. I have since upgraded the vid card to a HD 6450 with 2GB of DDR3 on board ram. I started to get graphics glitches on v18.

Hope some of this info is useful for you.

JosEPh :)
 
Big thanksx for that dll, I can now run standard with revolutions just fine :D
 
Excellent, detailed information. Thanks Stormwind and Joseph. You guys have been great at helping me out!
 
You're quite Welcome. :)

JosEPh
 
I just changed from Subsidized to Paradise (no other civic changed) and in a single turn the corporations in half of the cities have ceased operation.

Does Paradise have a special modifier for corporations?
 
alb22 said:
I just changed from Subsidized to Paradise (no other civic changed) and in a single turn the corporations in half of the cities have ceased operation.

Does Paradise have a special modifier for corporations?
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Nope. Neither of those have any modifiers in the Civics XML for Corporations.
 
Subsidized does, right? That is, subsidized does something for corporations
 
I have a question about founding cities. With the perfectworld_2f map, I could only found a city with a tribe in a single spot. With my second tribe i cant find any suitable spot. Is this intended?
 
wolfman1234 said:
I have a question about founding cities. With the perfectworld_2f map, I could only found a city with a tribe in a single spot. With my second tribe i cant find any suitable spot. Is this intended?
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No, that should not happen unless useful plots are very rare on the generated map compared to the amount of civs (although it does not check other spots than the actual starting spot in a detailed manner so if a lot of semi-useful plots are around there is a chance for that to occur as it only checks sums of plot values in the area).
 
It´s a gigantic map with 28 civs. I am near a desert and a lot of scrub terrain, but there are some rivers. The only suitable spot, where i founded my second city is beside a river.
 
wolfman1234 said:
It´s a gigantic map with 28 civs. I am near a desert and a lot of scrub terrain, but there are some rivers. The only suitable spot, where i founded my second city is beside a river.
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Hmm, I assume the next civ is quite a distance away?
 
EldrinFal said:
Nope. Neither of those have any modifiers in the Civics XML for Corporations.
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Thanks, after you mentioned xml I also took a look into the file - must be my not up to date version:
Subsidized: <iRealCorporationMaintenanceModifier>-110</iRealCorporationMaintenanceModifier>
Paradise: nothing

Now I see why switching makes corporations :gripe:!
Getting into SVN now..
 
Are there any plans in the future multithreaded optimization mode?
Game use only 2 cores of mine 8....
 
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