Demo works on sub-spec laptop, should I buy the full game?

[Mad Doctor X]

Title says it all really. I downloaded the Civ 5 demo and have played it through 100 turns succesfully. I have a T7200 Core 2 2.0 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM and a X1600 Mobility Radeon GPU. Other than having to play the DX9 version and having to accept long end of turn waits at the end game, is there any good reason why I shouldn't buy the full game?

Thanks in advance.

 

[tokala]

You don't have those graphics artifacts typical for the X1000s, like currupt yields markers? What driver version are you running?

Apart from that, the game will be getting really slow for larger maps later in the game, but that happens to everyone

 

[Mad Doctor X]

Do you mean the production/food/gold markers on the city map page? Sometimes there are more than there should be, and they seem to be off centre.
I also noticed a problem with some of the circular event notification icons that appear on the right hand side of the screen.

Personally I don't think either of these are much of an issue, it'd be great if the game looked pretty. But it's what inside that counts, right?! I will look forward to some decent graphics if and when I upgrade my 'puter.

 

[J-man]

Here is one reason why you perhaps shouldn't buy the game. In the full version there are a lot more units and civilizations and what else in the game. Those long end of turns are going to get a lot worse in the full version of the game.

 

[Baleur]

Depends really, everyone talks about the long end turns but for me i've never had it take more than a few seconds.
I did have some corrupt icons here and there occationally, like the "buy tile" icon and once it was the great people icons, seems to be rather random though.

All in all its still a great game (especially next to the other crap that keeps getting released on the PC), im glad i bought it, but i'll be even more glad when a few more patches are out.

 

[Mad Doctor X]

Thought I'd square the circle...

I did buy the game and have played through a couple of times so far. It has worked fine. I haven't played a map larger than standard yet. Couple of other provisos, I have a Zalman laptop cooler and I have the latest ATI legacy drivers modded with the mobility modder available at hardwareheaven.

All in all it seems like a good game. I think Civ IV has more depth, but it'll be interesting to see what any expansion packs bring to Civ V.