Graphics Card Advice

[timtofly]

IMO most people play Civ5 for the one more turn factor. Frame rate is a side issue. That is probably changing the more people play FP perspective games with smooth frame rates. As long as the game does not crash or slow down while one is in the city view, or there are tremendously long waits between turns, watching your unit move or battle gets old pretty quick. If the grey and bad refresh rates are the result of trying to smooth frame rate or speed it up, that seems to be out of sync with the spirit of the game.

 

[tokala]

But apparently that pretty stuff is what sells the game, and ultimately pays for the development of the stuff civfanatics care for

Gameplay is perfectly functional in strategic mode, but for some reason a state-of-the-art (or more cynically: experimental) rendering engine was deemed necessary on top of that.