I'm running Windows 98 and I finished my first game without any problems.

[Pounder]

Windows 98 SE, P3 800mhz , 512M RAM, GeForce 5500

The Game definitely grows on you, no crashes or slowdown as far as turns go, movies run fine (but the audio is choppy).

The game probably runs faster than Civ3 because you don't have the 1000's of units, or hundreds of cities.

I am a little disappointed with the amount of American content in the game, it detracts from the game a bit. (Example: Dan Quayle's name should never have been in the game, I have to find the XML file that has those names and put some decent names in there).

 

[Stoneage]

Windows 98 SE, P3 800mhz , 512M RAM, GeForce 5500

The Game definitely grows on you, no crashes or slowdown as far as turns go, movies run fine (but the audio is choppy).

The game probably runs faster than Civ3 because you don't have the 1000's of units, or hundreds of cities.

I am a little disappointed with the amount of American content in the game, it detracts from the game a bit. (Example: Dan Quayle's name should never have been in the game, I have to find the XML file that has those names and put some decent names in there).

What !!!!!!
You are taking the piss man. It doesnt run very fast on my AMD 64 FX55 with 1 Gig of RAM and 2 x 128m Geforce 6600GT cards in dual SLI mode. Maybe I should sell may expensive crap and recomission the P2 300 which is proping up a pile of junk in my garage.

 

[Pounder]

What !!!!!!
You are taking the piss man. It doesnt run very fast on my AMD 64 FX55 with 1 Gig of RAM and 2 x 128m Geforce 6600GT cards in dual SLI mode. Maybe I should sell may expensive crap and recomission the P2 300 which is proping up a pile of junk in my garage.

Here is a screen shot from near the end of the game and the system properties.

I am also running it windowed so I can use the internet and other applications between turns. I also left the virus checker and firewalls running during the game. I have had graphics programs running so I could post screen shots as well.

I shut the movies off because the audio was choppy and I didn't care for them, especially at the intro with all the logos and such, the game starts much faster without them.

 

[Richosh]

What !!!!!!
You are taking the piss man. It doesnt run very fast on my AMD 64 FX55 with 1 Gig of RAM and 2 x 128m Geforce 6600GT cards in dual SLI mode. Maybe I should sell may expensive crap and recomission the P2 300 which is proping up a pile of junk in my garage.

You misunderstood him. He said WIN98. For average computer users this translates to old = ****. For experienced ad older people this would be =best os evar (generalization, does not have to be true, just my view, have a N.I.C.E. day)

 

[jarcher]

I find it hard to believe it even runs in Win98, but i'm happy for you mate.

 

[alexti2]

Runs [reasonably] fine on Win98SE too for me (P4 1.8, 768Ram, 6600GT). Though I had to install MSIE6 to run it.
The sound in the movies is choppy too here. And I have slight delay when pressing a key: press a key, fraction of second delay, then the unit starts moving. I don't know if it's normal or not, but Civ3 was more responsive.

 

[doggiedaddy]

Well, here I had posted several times about the ease of running the game..

Only to have it basically freeze on my twice. The first time the disc kept going and going and going...come to think of it, it did that the second time as well...

Guess I'll have to wait for a patch to really enjoy this thing..

 

[Mujadaddy]

You misunderstood him. He said WIN98. For average computer users this translates to old = ****. For experienced ad older people this would be =best os evar

/sign

 

[Pounder]

Runs [reasonably] fine on Win98SE too for me (P4 1.8, 768Ram, 6600GT). Though I had to install MSIE6 to run it.
The sound in the movies is choppy too here. And I have slight delay when pressing a key: press a key, fraction of second delay, then the unit starts moving. I don't know if it's normal or not, but Civ3 was more responsive.

Seeing that you are a fellow Win98SE user, I have a question for you:

I have to go to the main menu to save, that is; press esc then click the save button. I am used to just pressing ctrl-s to save, which doesn't seem to work for me, just wondering if it has anything to do with WIN98.

 

[Lucky The Fox]

Finally some happy news. ^^

 

[agoodfella]

Runs [reasonably] fine on Win98SE too for me (P4 1.8, 768Ram, 6600GT). Though I had to install MSIE6 to run it.
The sound in the movies is choppy too here. And I have slight delay when pressing a key: press a key, fraction of second delay, then the unit starts moving. I don't know if it's normal or not, but Civ3 was more responsive.

How did you know you had to install MSIE6?

What difference would that / did that make?

Thanks (fellow 98SE user)

 

[Calder]

You may be saving me $1000's! I have Windows 98SE on a HP Pavilion with X86 Family 15 Model Stepping 9, Genuine Intel, MSIE6, but only 224mb RAM. I remember my last upgrade 2 years ago I wanted 512mb Ram but apparently I was told I couldn't have that on this system without it blowing a fuse. Do you think its worth me trying it out when I eventually get the game, before buying a new PC?

 

[alexti2]

Seeing that you are a fellow Win98SE user, I have a question for you:

I have to go to the main menu to save, that is; press esc then click the save button. I am used to just pressing ctrl-s to save, which doesn't seem to work for me, just wondering if it has anything to do with WIN98.

Yep, same problem for me And this looks like Win98 problem, I remember 98 and NT had some differences in keyboard event handling...

 

[alexti2]

How did you know you had to install MSIE6?

What difference would that / did that make?

Civ4 was failing right away saying that it couldn't find some folder related API function in shell.dll. I've looked in Microsoft's support and that was common problem fixable by upgrading IE (I had some prehistoric IE, from 90s, I guess). So I've installed MSIE6 and it cured the problem.

 

[alexti2]

You may be saving me $1000's! I have Windows 98SE on a HP Pavilion with X86 Family 15 Model Stepping 9, Genuine Intel, MSIE6, but only 224mb RAM. I remember my last upgrade 2 years ago I wanted 512mb Ram but apparently I was told I couldn't have that on this system without it blowing a fuse. Do you think its worth me trying it out when I eventually get the game, before buying a new PC?

224Mb RAM is tough My guess would be that it won't run very well. But what do you lose by trying it (besides 5 minutes to install)? Maybe on small maps it will be ok...

 

[Stoneage]

My original comment was based on the statement that you are getting no slow down on what is a low spec machine. My machine was state of the art about 6 months ago and the game is distinctly slow in terms of animation and scrolling.

 

[Pounder]

Yep, same problem for me And this looks like Win98 problem, I remember 98 and NT had some differences in keyboard event handling...

Thanks, no one was answering on the tech support site, now I can put it to rest, not a big deal anyway, I was just curious, thought I missed a file on installation or something, probably wouldn't have reloaded for that anyway.

BTW, Here is a shot from the end of my second game, high scores seem easier than on Civ 3, considering I am still learning, imagine the scores that the elite player will be getting.

 

[Pounder]

My original comment was based on the statement that you are getting no slow down on what is a low spec machine. My machine was state of the art about 6 months ago and the game is distinctly slow in terms of animation and scrolling.

I am not having any major problems. In my first game the last hundred turns took me less than 2 hours (not per turn ). I didn't see any slowdown at all on the per turn basis. I think this game is faster than Civ3 on a per turn basis, probably because the number of units and towns is a lot less.

The leaderheads animate fine, but there is some slowing (still acceptable) when I am scrolling across the map to view another area. And while zooming in during a battle will see some hesitation, but still acceptable.

Windows 98 may use less resources than the newer Windows OS's. Windows 98 will only support up to 512MB RAM, so I will not be upgrading memory any further.

I think the fact that I have a decent Video card is a big factor.

 

[dpaajones]

Windows 98 SE is a cool operating system - I remember it well.

 

[Craterus22]

this is GREAT news - i have windows 98 on my amd64 desktop until windows xp for the 64 gets its issues worked out (giving them a year - tried the beta had tons of problems).

thanks for the great news

+1 !!!