Civilizatioin IV uses the same graphic engine as Pirates...

[Flower]

My computer runned pretty smoothly Pirates so do you think it will handle Civilization IV since it's the same graphic engine?

Best regards,
Flower

 

[vbraun]

Yes, it should.

 

[alamo]

Flower - could you tell us what video card you are using?

Borderline people (like me) want some confirmation that T+L is not absolutely necessary.

 

[tcjsavannah]

It's pretty much what I'm going by, though I went to that srtest.com site and it said that I shouldn't have any problems, either.

 

[zeise]

my compuer managed to run pirates with NO graphics card, rather poorly, but with a radeon 9800 it now runs brilliantly

 

[doronron]

I can run Pirates on an Intel 852/855 GM chipset. Even for the Intel Extreme, that's a bit outdated. Pirates had to run on highest detail, but there was no slowdown or lag, and very few graphic artifacts.

 

[Sub]

I'm personally dieing to know if T + L is really needed. I have a GeForce FX 5200 and ran Pirates without any problems at all... The thing is, my card doesn't support T + L, I have no idea what T + L does and I have no idea if T + L was in Pirates.

 

[doronron]

T&L is in Pirates, and the game looks quite nice. It seems to be more of an option with the Gamebryo engine...

but...

As I said, at least as far as the Intel chips went, certain rendering methods used in Pirates caused weird artifacts, characters that looked like liquid metal or wood. Other parts of the game ran with no errors at all. We don't actually know which of the rednering options are used most by the Civ IV game.

 

[alva848]

Borderline people (like me) want some confirmation that T+L is not absolutely necessary.

If your card doesn't support T/L, your card isn't even close to being borderline.

I have a GeForce FX 5200 and ran Pirates without any problems at all... The thing is, my card doesn't support T + L

Yes it does.
Though the 5000 serie wasn't the best one, it should be good enough to indeed runs Civ4 (though probably not on high(est) settings).

 

[bky1701]

Flower - could you tell us what video card you are using?

Borderline people (like me) want some confirmation that T+L is not absolutely necessary.

T+L is emulatible by the CPU. It shoud be able to at LEST run (unlike AOE3). But that does not really mean it will run too well.

 

[Comraddict]

I'm personally dieing to know if T + L is really needed. I have a GeForce FX 5200 and ran Pirates without any problems at all... The thing is, my card doesn't support T + L, I have no idea what T + L does and I have no idea if T + L was in Pirates.

your card is two generations newer than TnL, so yes it supports it.

 

[vStauffenberg]

pirates runs pretty smoothly at highest detail and 1400x1050 resolution on my laptop that has an ati mobility radeon 9700 w 64mb and 512mb ram and a pentium M 1.6Ghz

 

[Wolfwood]

pirates runs pretty smoothly at highest detail and 1400x1050 resolution on my laptop that has an ati mobility radeon 9700 w 64mb and 512mb ram and a pentium M 1.6Ghz

Sounds like my old Acer Travelmate 803LCi. Exact same specs, I believe.

But the game did not run as smoothly on that as it does on my new Compaq nc8230 - although, for some reason this new one cannot reach as good resolution...

 

[vStauffenberg]

no, it's an asus a3823glh. the display is the best (1400x1050), graphics matches minimum for civ4, could be better

 

[brown_mudante]

Yeah, I also noticed much similarities between Pirates and Civ 4 screenshots. Personally, I found Pirates to be too naive with too much colours and without any depth. It alsmost "childish" game for me so I hope Civ4 won't be like that.

 

[alamo]

I can run Pirates on an Intel 852/855 GM chipset. Even for the Intel Extreme, that's a bit outdated. Pirates had to run on highest detail, but there was no slowdown or lag, and very few graphic artifacts.

That is VERY interesting, as this chipset does NOT have T+L! (see here)

That confirms that T+L is not absolutely necessary with the Gambryo engine.

@alva848 - my card is 'borderline' b/c T+L is the only failing component.

 

[Andrew_Jay]

Good to hear. My video card doesn't support T&L (Lego Star Wars refuses to run) but can run a lot of recent stuff very nicely - like AoEIII, WarHammer Dawn of War, etc.

As long as it doesn't do something like "Your Graphics Card Does Not Support T&L, Civilization IV Will Now Exit" I'm set.

 

[dairymann]

I have Intel Extreme Graphics and I was able to run Pirates! very successfully except for a few graphical glitches which didn't affect the game much. I also tried running Imperial Glory which FORCED your card to have T + L but I solved that problem with 3D Analyzer which allowed you to force the software emulation of T+L.

 

[Prometheus1992]

hmm.. never played Pirates! personally, is it any good?

 

[dairymann]

hmm.. never played Pirates! personally, is it any good?

It was fun for a game or two but got repetitive awfully quick