I've got a laptop that exceeds the recommended requirements for Civ 4 and yet it seems I'm having some sort of performance problems. With BTS I get the warning of not having enough juice under the hood too. The specs for my machine are (Asus K50AD) are:
Ati Radeon HD 4570 512 mb
AMD Athlon Dual core M300 2 GHz
4 gigs of ram
Win 7 64 bit
When playing the screen flickers to black a lot and it may take up to a minute recover from it, so you can imagine it's unbelievably annoying. The game doesn't crash though and remains playable after the screen has recovered. At times this seems to be triggered by the autosave, but at times it seems the autosave doesn't have anything to do with it so I'm not sure what causes it. This happens with all screen resolutions I've tried Civ4 with, and I installed Directx 9.0c and set the compatibility mode to XP to see if that fixes the problem, but no dice. The graphics drivers should also be up-to-date, and all games are patched to the latest version.
So, has anyone else had this problem, or any ideas how to fix this?
Ati Radeon HD 4570 512 mb
AMD Athlon Dual core M300 2 GHz
4 gigs of ram
Win 7 64 bit
When playing the screen flickers to black a lot and it may take up to a minute recover from it, so you can imagine it's unbelievably annoying. The game doesn't crash though and remains playable after the screen has recovered. At times this seems to be triggered by the autosave, but at times it seems the autosave doesn't have anything to do with it so I'm not sure what causes it. This happens with all screen resolutions I've tried Civ4 with, and I installed Directx 9.0c and set the compatibility mode to XP to see if that fixes the problem, but no dice. The graphics drivers should also be up-to-date, and all games are patched to the latest version.
So, has anyone else had this problem, or any ideas how to fix this?
