Does Civ 4 work for you?

[Drewcifer]

I bought a new computer last summer. The game works fine for me all the way to the end on standard sized maps. Oh, I do get the teeth thing once in a while but that is a minor thing. This is a Major improvement over how it ran before the patch.

I still can't play huge maps all the way to the end. If I turn the graphics all the way down I can make it to about 1900 or so and then the game becomes so slow it is unplayable.

 

[antracer]

The game plays OK on a small map, somewhat on a standard map, and hardly at all on anything bigger. I have a 1 yr old system with a 2.6Ghz, gig of ram and 256 meg vid card.

Game slows to a snails pace once the map is revealed, and begins to crash regularly thereafter.

I haven't played for a long time now, having purchased ( and played ) GalCiv 2 and Space Empires 4. I have been really impressed with GalCiv2's support. I have checked these forums every day for what seems like forever hoping for a patch, but my hope fades, along with my interest a little every day.

I have played Civ since 1, modded 2 and 3 forever and a day.... I feel REALLY taken for granted by this whole thing. I feel the company cashed in on the Civ name, and took alot of us.

I for one will not be purchasing the expansion pak. I'll play GC2 for a year, and when Civ4GoldPlatinumDiamondZirconiumCentrumComplete sits on the shelf with a $19.99 pricetag cuz it's old news I'll think about it..... till then, my money stays with the companies that take care of their customers, not the ones who promise and hint " the patch is almost here..." wink wink...

Just my 1/2 cent adjusted for inflation. I needed the other 1 1/2 for gas.

 

[Ben E Gas]

Works absolutely perfect for me.

same here, but I just bought a new compo, so maybe that's why I have no prob. 2 gigs ram, pentium M, top Nvida graphics card which I forget the correct name, maybe Nvidia 7800 or something. Graphics settings maxed out, game loads quick, turns take no time at all. Much better than my old compo that had 512Ram, pentium 4, lower end graphics card, load times and turn times were terrible on that thing. And when I'd scroll accross the map or zoom in and out it would freeze up for a few seconds and act choppy. Now I have no problem at all. The game is a resource hog I guess.

 

[Zhahz]

Looks like some folks need to get real computers to run PC games on.

You can expect to run premium games on junk and you can't expect developers to cater to ancient operating systems and ancient hardware.

<shrug>

 

[Depravo]

Looks like some folks need to get real computers to run PC games on.

You can expect to run premium games on junk and you can't expect developers to cater to ancient operating systems and ancient hardware.

<shrug>

Give me strength.

Now strictly speaking the game is playable (in that I can start it up and play usually to the late middle / early industrial ages on a Large map) but since it crashes every 2-3 turns without fail on anything but the smallest map sizes somewhere in the early modern, and runs painfully slow most of the foregoing period, I have to choose 'unplayable'.

 

[Leonel]

Got a massive computer upgrade a couple of weeks ago and Civ 4 works awesomely on my computer. Although it does experience some stuttering in the industrial age.

 

[Overcast32]

I get some Crashes to desktop during late game. I also find that unless I reboot the game will usually keep crashing. Once I reboot, I'm fine for a while...

Don't think it's system specs, I run some games more demanding on the hardware than Civ4 and they do fine.

 

[Ray Patterson]

In Soviet Russia, you work for Civ 4! ;-)

works fine for me, on my 2 GHZ 512 MB RAM Gforce 5200 I play with low graphics setting and all animations on, and can handle large pretty smoothly and huge with some lag. Not bad!

 

[Falcon02]

Works fine for me... though if I go from normal view to global view, it can take a LONG time to load if the buildings are displayed and other details are enabled.

Still takes a bit without but not too bad.

Also, generally Huge maps are a tad slow, but still bearable.

1.8 Ghz Athelon, 1.5 GB Ram, GeForce4 Ti 4200 w/ AGP 8X with 128MB onboard memory

 

[MrCynical]

Well in the end I did point this thread out in a couple of the longer complaints threads in the tech support forum, and it has made a noticeable difference. 17 is rather closer to the number of individuals I've seen who couldn't play the game at all. Still fairly close to my first estimate of 5% unplayable and 15% playable, but need another patch.