Conquest on older computers

[dreadknought]

Does anyone run the game on a p2 666 or close to that and if so how are ther scenarios running speed wise. I wont to get the game but I am fairly close on the system specs.

Along those same lines , what is the best system to run the game on. I may get a new computer early next year......thx

 

[jpinoniemi]

Min requirements are PII 400, 128 MB Ram, 800MB hard disk space, DX9.

are you sure about your processor? I've never heard of a "p2 666" before, I supposed that has Satan inside?

 

[Smellincoffee]

I've run the Mesoamerican, Mesopotamia, and Napoleonic COnquests on a PII 465 with 128 RAM. Works fine for me.

 

[jened]

interesting ptw required 300mhz i believe (unless that was vanilla civ3.) was going to buy a laptop and now i guess i'll have to go 400+ for conquests.

 

[sealman]

Originally posted by jened
interesting ptw required 300mhz i believe (unless that was vanilla civ3.) was going to buy a laptop and now i guess i'll have to go 400+ for conquests.

vanilla civ was 300.

ptw was more than my 350.

 

[Mannerheim]

Well, Im running Vanilla fine under Win95 and P233 64MB. Previously I had problems with sounds, but deleting extra click-sounds and those annoying hoorays fixed everything.
It'll be interesting to see how my 'old faithful' will handle the compulsory DX9... Anybody know a way around it?

 

[dreadknought]

Originally posted by jpinoniemi
Min requirements are PII 400, 128 MB Ram, 800MB hard disk space, DX9.

are you sure about your processor? I've never heard of a "p2 666" before, I supposed that has Satan inside?

Actually found out it was a k-7 650 with 250 ram.

Still no thoughts on the best computer to run this game?

 

[dreadknought]

Originally posted by jpinoniemi
Min requirements are PII 400, 128 MB Ram, 800MB hard disk space, DX9.

are you sure about your processor? I've never heard of a "p2 666" before, I supposed that has Satan inside?

Now that you mention it though that could explain those strange noices I here at night.

 

[MarineCorps]

I'm running it on a 6 year old peice of crap right now, only 96 RAM, but it runs fine. No issues or anything.

 

[jpinoniemi]

My rig was built for UT and runs C3C with no problems at all.

Athlon XP 2800 cooled with Volcano 11
ASUS A7N8X motherboard
1GB Corsair PC3200
ATI 9700 Pro
WinXP

I also have a 2nd HP workstation that has these specs and runs CIV3 with no problems either.

HP Kayak Workstation
2 PII 450 Xeon processors
Nvidia Gforce2 32MB
256MB Ram
Win2k

 

[dexters]

Originally posted by MarineCorps
I'm running it on a 6 year old peice of crap right now, only 96 RAM, but it runs fine. No issues or anything.

I think running with a machine like that limits the scope of the games you can play.

A 1 ghz, 128 mb ram machine can be had for cheap these days. Ever consider upgrading?

 

[shadowplay]

Conquests works just fine for me on my 333 pentium 2 with 64 mb of ram.




Stop laughing.

 

[Puppeteer]

Originally posted by Mannerheim
Well, Im running Vanilla fine under Win95 and P233 64MB. [. . .]
It'll be interesting to see how my 'old faithful' will handle the compulsory DX9... Anybody know a way around it?

Sorry, as I understand it DX9 refuses to install on Win95, and C3C refuses to install without DX9. The box does list Win98/ME/2000/XP as a reqirement. I feel for ya; in my opinion Win95 should still be usable.