Help Please

[harlowheat]

What the heck ?
I should be able to play this
iam having serious problems here i payed over $50 dollars for a game
A game i still want to play
it installs just fine when i go to play a game the only thing i get to see is the units or resources but if i play a very small map eventually i get to see some of it
Ive tryed to play in the darkness until 5am and go to save when i try to load my saved my game i get to hit the end turn button and nothing happens.like it freezes i dont have the skills to go in and change things so tell me please what to do please ill change my stuff in a couple months hopefully
i have a 3000+ amd athlon processer
512 ddr sdram
160 gigs of hard drive
NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX graphics
please help me some one because firaxis or take2 games wont answerphone or computer email
thank you

 

[alamo]

Your video card is barely minimum. You need to cut down the graphics load as much as possible. Even then the gameplay may not be acceptable.

One thing that I recently learned is that the AGP drivers are different between Intel and AMD. Check to see if your have a system device for the AGP slot. You'll need drivers from AMD if it's not there.

 

[harlowheat]

so i need a new graphics card in a couple of months