hello civ forum pepes; need help to have game run

[maford14]

So I was/am/still are a huge CivIII fan, and purchased CivIV about two weeks ago. However, I am a relative gaming novice (gaming is a study break activity from law school studies for me) and bought the game to install on my laptop.

I did not realize that the graphics were such that my imbedded graphics card would not allow the game to operate fully. I am an idiot. I can play the game basically, though many of the options are unavailable and I am unable to save games (really annoying when I lose a 3-4 hr game).

My system: Acer Travelmate 250 notebook, Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 512 RAM. My graphics card is an Intel (R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphic Controller.

I contacted the Acer support staff and they told me that my computer cannot be upgraded sufficiently to allow full game play. I realize there is likely nothing I can do but was hoping that someone would have some suggestion/solution that will allow me to fully enjoy the wonders of CivIV. Please help me if you can. Thanks

 

[Krupo]

Find out if you can increase your memory; if not, consider buying a new computer.

You'll definitely have to keep your options set to minimum details until you have a newer system.

I'm surprised you can't save games - auto save doesn't work either?

 

[crunch]

I wonder why are you not able to save the game. I have the same graphics and I can play quite OK. Same RAM, Centrino 1.4GHz.

Turn off audio and movies, turn off all perks, apply latest patch.