Civ 4 has arrived....

[Shirak]

Like you didn't know already

But today it has arrived on my p.c., i had it given to me as a christmas present ( a loooong wait that one ) but i've got a Raedon graphics card. After a third crash and re-install and one look at the forums, resplendent with festive tales of ATI conflicts and endless variatiatons on the theme ' crash/freeze/aagghh', i took the only path a man could, i bought a Nvidia 6600 LE, plugged it in, and **POW** straight in to the world of dreamy 3D graphics.
Oh lordy, at last, civ's back
Give me a couple of weeks to get to grips and i'm in for GOTM....Happy days

 

[Equisilus]

That's an expensive patch!

Hope it's worth it to you.

 

[Oggums]

It's worth it.

 

[NikNak]

I have an ATI 9200. I'm one of the fortunate few with no ATI problems at all. Whew! Others have noticed that older ATI cards don't have the issues the newer ones do. Weird, but I won't complain. I'm just glad I can Civ it up without upgrading my PC again.

 

[Shirak]

Yep, i really feel for the people who can't get the game running due to conflicts within their system, my card was an ATI 9200SE. I had waited too long and nothing was gonna stop me loading and running civ4. The new card is a peach, and over the space of a year it will cost less than 30p a day.I fly online with Falcon F4 and the graphics and textures have gone to another level with infinate draw distances and NO stutter.....
This new civ is sooo cool, can't wait to get to grips with all the new features.

 

[holy king]

just patching 1.09 or 1.52 (might occur that 1.09 wokrs but 1.52 doesnt..) would have done it too...

 

[Shirak]

I wish . I tried the patches and downloading new controls from A.T.I.all to no avail, but there was no change, i could run the tutorial but it would all go black when i tried to create a new game.
Thats all history now, this 6600 card rocks

 

[Chopperhead]

yup I bought the 6600 GT to play this game lol very expensive game but i love it.