How POWERFUL is you computer?

[Elfarcher]

P4 3.0g
GForce 6800GT
RAM 2G

enough to run civ but crapple to run Wizard and so on.

 

[CouNterOrdeR]

Intel Celeron 2.7gHz
1 gig of sexy 300mHz ram
and my beautiful Radeon 9250 to put the icing on the cake.
I play with all setting on high(low and high doesnt seem to make a difference in speed to me)and can play Standard maps just fine.Large maps starts gettin laggy half way through the BCs.

 

[Macha]

So

Civ is a beast, everybody knows that. I thought it'd be interesting to find out what specs people are playing with

I have a
GE Force 7700 OC
a gig of DDR2 RAM
AMD Athalon X2 Dual Core 5700

i bought the new CPU to accomodate civ, AND its still not enough!!!

Anybody out there have a good set of hardware that works for giant maps and marathon games?

It's your RAM more than anything elser that's killing your speed.
I play civ with 2gigs RAM, a Geforce 5200 and a pentium 4 on max everything with no problems.

 

[espartaco]

mine is AMD Athlon 64 x 2 dual core processor 4200+ 2.19 GHz, 2 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT.
I usually don't go beyond Industrialism, a SoD of about 50 units is really slow and the pc is on its knees to handle it, civ4 sucks in that sense.

 

[6K Man]

I have no idea of my PC's exact specs, but it runs Huge maps fine... not much lag at all except when loading.

 

[tykemalcolm]

I'm now using a dual core 3.0Ghz; Nvidia 9800GT; 6 Gigs Ram with Vista 64bit.

 

[grommit5]

core 2 2.66ghz, ati 1900 512mb x 2, 2 gig ram, 10,000 rpm hd, XP. huge maps in late game slows a bit but not bad.

 

[Iranon]

I messed up big time...

Q6600 (4*2.4 GHz)
2 GB RAM, DDR2-1066
GeForce 8800 GTX
150 GB HD, 10,000 RPM

Not enough RAM, inelegant cooling solution (noise!).

 

[Trimlin]

CPU: C2D 3.33Ghz (E8600 I think)
RAM: 4GBs of DDR2 (running with /3GB, 1GB being wasted)
Video: 768MB 8800 GTX
OS: XP SP3
22" LCD

All settings maxed, I play 18 player marathon games on huge - no lag

 

[[KC]Bantams]

I messed up big time...

Q6600 (4*2.4 GHz)
2 GB RAM, DDR2-1066
GeForce 8800 GTX
150 GB HD, 10,000 RPM

Not enough RAM, inelegant cooling solution (noise!).

same but 4gb ram and 2 x 150gb hds and a 22 inch hd screen

 

[WuphonsReach]

AMD Phenom X4 quad core 9550 (2.2GHz)
4GB DDR2 800Mhz
(1) 750GB SATA HD
(2) NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in SLI configuration

I run in a full-screen 1680x1050 display (22" LCD is a nice size). For the most part, my frame rates stay well above 30fps, even when I zoom out and look at the overall globe.

I have high detail terrain textures turned on, AA set to 2x, all of the other options set to "High" in the Graphics menu.

I haven't tested to see whether the game is helped by the SLI.

 

[gamecharmer]

Personal Tower
ASUS P5K-Delux Wi-Fi AP
Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz Quad-core
8GB Corsair Dominator Ram @ 1066mhz
(3) 750GB Seagate SataII
Geforce 8600GT 1GB Ram
1680x1050 on 22" LCD.

Work Tower (I love my hour lunch break)
ASUS P45 Maximus II
Xeon X3360 @ 2.83GHz - 12MB L2 Cache - 95W Quad-Core
(3) 750GB Seagate SataII in RAID 5
(2) GeForce 9400 GT 512MB SLI
16GB GSkill Ram @ 800mhz
1680x1050 on 22" LCD.

My work tower is mainly used for running several virtual machines in a test environment. I'm planning on expanding the work tower with another set of (3) 750gb's in RAID 5 then striping the two sets. If all goes well, I should have enough cash around to upgrade my MoBo to a Striker 2 or a Maximus 2 and follow in the path of the work tower.

 

[Chiyochan]

So

Civ is a beast, everybody knows that. I thought it'd be interesting to find out what specs people are playing with

I have a
GE Force 7700 OC
a gig of DDR2 RAM
AMD Athalon X2 Dual Core 5700

i bought the new CPU to accomodate civ, AND its still not enough!!!

Anybody out there have a good set of hardware that works for giant maps and marathon games?

programing a game with memory leaks the size of a cow does not make it a beast it makes it a mess

 

[Macha]

Just ordered a replacement computer as mine apparently underwent a sudden mobo and dual hard drive failure (don't ask me how).

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 Cache)
4096MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x2048]
256MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 3650
500GB (5.400rpm) Serial ATA Dual Hard Drive (2x 250GB)

 

[Elkad]

X2 3800 (2ghz)
4gb ddr2 (3.75 recognized due to XP limits)
6600 256mb (vanilla)

I play 18/huge basically all the time. Gets a bit slow in the later eras, but my civ days started on a 386/20mhz, where waiting several minutes for a turn flip was normal. 15 second late game flips are no big deal.

Secret to big maps is have 2gigs open for civ to use (that means at least 3 in your machine). Since DDR2 is under $20/gig now, its about the cheapest upgrade ever.

 

[Stuck in Pi]

AMD quad-core 9550
5GB RAM DDR2
NVIDIA GeForce 9300

I'll put it this way, Medieval II Total War on highest settings and large unit sizes doesn't lag at all. It's nice.

 

[HmJ]

Mac Pro: two 2.8GHz 4-core Xeon 5400 series, 8GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT. Lovely When I initially bought the game, back in October 2005: X2 3500+ with 1GB RAM and NVidia GeForce 6800GT. Already perfect

 

[Gustavus]

Ah, a fellow mac man. Are you running Bootcamp to play BTS? Anyway, Macbook Pro 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, GeForce 8600M GT. Works like a charm, surprisingly.
Edit: Any thoughts on Alienware? I heard they came out with a new M17.

 

[Vladesch]

Athlon 2 core 64 bit 6000+
Window XP 64
4 gig ram
8800GT

I run biggest map with max civs fine.

 

[Jerrymander]

AMD Sempron 3000+ (1.8 GHz, 133Mhz FSB)
512 MB 133Mhz DDR ram
GeForce MX4000