bippukt
Prince
Hello everyone! 
It has been a long time since I played Civ4, but I have finally returned to it and wend ahead and borrowed BTS from a friend to find out if its worth buying.
The only problem is that I don't have my normal PC (XP, single core P4, 1 GB RAM, 7300GT 512 MB) with me. So I am forced to borrow my father's notebook and use it. It has Vista, 1 GB RAM, dual core 2Ghz, onboard intel 945GM chipset. The game used to run very smoothly on my desktop at full graphics. However, on this notebook, I am running it at the lowest possible settings and even then its graphics are giving me problems. The biggest problem is scrolling. It's just so slow that it takes all the fun out of playing the game. I am running the game on standard size at epic speed. Even around 600BC I have slow scrolling
. BTW, the mouse pointer moves pretty fast. It's just the screen that is slow to scroll. It's unpleasant, it strains my eyes and I cannot make a decision about buying BTS.
If it helps, the performance indexes given by Vista for the notebook are as follows:
Processor: 4.9
RAM: 4.5 (BTW, around 400 MB of RAM is FREE)
Graphics: 3.5
Gaming Graphics: 3.1
Hard Disk: 4.3
Looking at these numbers, my heart sort of sinks. It is probably the onboard graphics card that just can't handle this game's low requirements. Notebooks really suck at gaming - my desktop (before upgrade) with 512 MB Ram and onboard graphics used to run the game much better than this.
Any and all advice will be really appreciated. I am getting Civ4 + BTS for around $25 (will sell my Civ4 copy to someone else
), but the offer won't last for more than 10 days. I need to decide before then. I have already tried a lot of things with very little success. I am enjoying my old favourite Imperialism 2 for the time being.
I am running BTS 3.17 (official).
It has been a long time since I played Civ4, but I have finally returned to it and wend ahead and borrowed BTS from a friend to find out if its worth buying.
The only problem is that I don't have my normal PC (XP, single core P4, 1 GB RAM, 7300GT 512 MB) with me. So I am forced to borrow my father's notebook and use it. It has Vista, 1 GB RAM, dual core 2Ghz, onboard intel 945GM chipset. The game used to run very smoothly on my desktop at full graphics. However, on this notebook, I am running it at the lowest possible settings and even then its graphics are giving me problems. The biggest problem is scrolling. It's just so slow that it takes all the fun out of playing the game. I am running the game on standard size at epic speed. Even around 600BC I have slow scrolling
. BTW, the mouse pointer moves pretty fast. It's just the screen that is slow to scroll. It's unpleasant, it strains my eyes and I cannot make a decision about buying BTS.If it helps, the performance indexes given by Vista for the notebook are as follows:
Processor: 4.9
RAM: 4.5 (BTW, around 400 MB of RAM is FREE)
Graphics: 3.5
Gaming Graphics: 3.1
Hard Disk: 4.3
Looking at these numbers, my heart sort of sinks. It is probably the onboard graphics card that just can't handle this game's low requirements. Notebooks really suck at gaming - my desktop (before upgrade) with 512 MB Ram and onboard graphics used to run the game much better than this.
Any and all advice will be really appreciated. I am getting Civ4 + BTS for around $25 (will sell my Civ4 copy to someone else
), but the offer won't last for more than 10 days. I need to decide before then. I have already tried a lot of things with very little success. I am enjoying my old favourite Imperialism 2 for the time being.I am running BTS 3.17 (official).
