robbyextreme
Prince
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Try the 40 AI Earth map. Only reason I tolerate that map is because of my second computer next to Civilization.
Duration between turns
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Elkad
Emperor
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I'd say 20-30s late game on a huge map.
Athlon 3800 (2ghz dual core). 4GB ram.
I have friendly moves turned off, and quick animations on. Basic sound effects are on, all the others (music, etc) are off.
Recently changed from a 256mb gf6600 to a 1gig rad4850. Made basically no difference that I could tell in Civ4, but I play with all the eye candy turned off (at 1680x1050)
I'd say RAM is the biggest issue. Especially on big maps. Task manager often shows civ at 1.5gigs usage lategame for me, so less than that would result in massive swapping to disk.
Athlon 3800 (2ghz dual core). 4GB ram.
I have friendly moves turned off, and quick animations on. Basic sound effects are on, all the others (music, etc) are off.
Recently changed from a 256mb gf6600 to a 1gig rad4850. Made basically no difference that I could tell in Civ4, but I play with all the eye candy turned off (at 1680x1050)
I'd say RAM is the biggest issue. Especially on big maps. Task manager often shows civ at 1.5gigs usage lategame for me, so less than that would result in massive swapping to disk.
GravityWave
Deposed Emperor
Phenom 9750, 4gb 1066 Ram, 512mb Geforce9600 GT, Vista64.
I always play huge maps (and the earth map a lot), and usually 18 civs, with BTS's graphics details all set to max (anisotropic(sp?) filtering at x8 though). It never usually takes more than 5secs for a turn even during the modern era.
One of the things that does make a difference to me is Windows Aero - I have set compatibility mode on the BTS shortcut to turn it off when I start the game.
I always play huge maps (and the earth map a lot), and usually 18 civs, with BTS's graphics details all set to max (anisotropic(sp?) filtering at x8 though). It never usually takes more than 5secs for a turn even during the modern era.
One of the things that does make a difference to me is Windows Aero - I have set compatibility mode on the BTS shortcut to turn it off when I start the game.
Kierkegaard
Warlord
Not only the amount of ram does speed up things, but also the frequency.
I've this specs:
pc:
E8400 3,0GHZ dual core
4gb ram 667mhz
512mb video nvidea 9800gt
laptop:
p8600 2,4ghz centrino dual core
4gb ram 1067mhz
512 mb video ati 3670
And it both goes speedly enough. Of course things slow down if later, but not that much.
I've this specs:
pc:
E8400 3,0GHZ dual core
4gb ram 667mhz
512mb video nvidea 9800gt
laptop:
p8600 2,4ghz centrino dual core
4gb ram 1067mhz
512 mb video ati 3670
And it both goes speedly enough. Of course things slow down if later, but not that much.
Late game huge maps, and before the AI is whittled down too much, I guess it can get up to around 10s, tested at 5s in my current game, but I have half the map already (conquest/time victory only).
Quad core Q6600 oversped slightly to 3GHz w/128KB L1 and 8MB L2, FSB 1346MTs w/base frequency 334MHz), 4GB DDR2 838 RAM, Marvell 61xx RAID w/7.2k 300MB/s SATA hard drives (x2), Nvidia GTX280 w/1GB RAM. Note a lot of modern components are designed to score highly on the metrics most people know (CPU core speed, amount of main RAM, HDD size), but make cheaper products by skimping on the less well known stuff. I have a cheap laptop that looks very similar in spec to my main box (except the graphics card) from the "headline" figures, but cost 1/6th of the price, and runs okay but nothing special. I wouldn't really try to play Civ4 on it.
The one thing I always found was slow is opening up the city list for some reason, well especially once you have 100+ cities. Has this been sped up in v3.19 because I just tried it and it seemed fairly fast (only at 65 cities so far though)? Or is it BUGs version of that screen is faster, as I only updated to using that in the last couple of games?
Quad core Q6600 oversped slightly to 3GHz w/128KB L1 and 8MB L2, FSB 1346MTs w/base frequency 334MHz), 4GB DDR2 838 RAM, Marvell 61xx RAID w/7.2k 300MB/s SATA hard drives (x2), Nvidia GTX280 w/1GB RAM. Note a lot of modern components are designed to score highly on the metrics most people know (CPU core speed, amount of main RAM, HDD size), but make cheaper products by skimping on the less well known stuff. I have a cheap laptop that looks very similar in spec to my main box (except the graphics card) from the "headline" figures, but cost 1/6th of the price, and runs okay but nothing special. I wouldn't really try to play Civ4 on it.
The one thing I always found was slow is opening up the city list for some reason, well especially once you have 100+ cities. Has this been sped up in v3.19 because I just tried it and it seemed fairly fast (only at 65 cities so far though)? Or is it BUGs version of that screen is faster, as I only updated to using that in the last couple of games?
glaivemaster
Prince
I used to have to wait ages in between turns. Then I bought more RAM, and the problem seems to have gone down a fair bit. 3gb is a good amount to let Civ run well on Huge Maps, or even bigger
Stoney the I
Prince
3200 single core with 1GB RAM turns used to take about 30 sec on a large map after the 1900's.
now i have 3 GB RAM and.....not much has changed.
now i have 3 GB RAM and.....not much has changed.
binhthuy71
Emperor
CivIV is unable to address more than 2GB of RAM (Doesn't use /LARGEADDRESSAWARE) so if you have another Gig or two for your system that's about it as far as RAM. Not too good with coding myself so I'm not sure that it could be added without an extensive rewrite.
I'm guessing that, due to the way Civ IV is coded, you won't get much faster turn times than those quoted by DMOC above.
I'm guessing that, due to the way Civ IV is coded, you won't get much faster turn times than those quoted by DMOC above.
Kierkegaard
Warlord
Larger than huge? Terra maps?
CivIVMonger
Emperor
binhthuy71
Emperor
Larger than huge? Is that anything like Dr. Evil's "Million, Bazillion dollars"?
CivIVMonger
Emperor
binhthuy71
Emperor
It lacks specificity.What?
CivIVMonger
Emperor
Awesome Quote! Nothing more mind draining than Pinky and the brain!
binhthuy71
Emperor
Pinky and the Brain sum up my approach to playing Civ. Lamentably, they also sum up my success at same.
Ghpstage
Deity
Huge being 128*80 tiles, the Planet Generator can build maps up to 256*160 which look like this 
At least with the common Planet Generator, there are many settings beyond huge size and none have names so vagueness is reasonable
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At least with the common Planet Generator, there are many settings beyond huge size and none have names so vagueness is reasonable
CivIVMonger
Emperor
OT. Is terra that large? No, for sure!
DMOC
Mathematician
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I did a game up here with Julius Caesar that had 30 civs and was on a map twice as large as huge with the help of the planet generator script (you can view it here if you click on the threads I've created). So ... that's what the planet generator by BUG can do.
But the game gets so slow late game that it's very hard to finish.
