Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME HP nx9030

[BerndN]

Hi all first.
Having tried the demo on my HP nx9030 notebook and searched the forums I feared that CIV IV would show me the black terrain effect. I received my copy yesterday and installed the sim. First start and I could see the well described problems.
Applied the latest official patch and started again and now I'm able to run the game. It's not fast but to learn some basics it's ok.
Intel driver: 6.14.10.4497 (It's from Intel and not from HP)
Directx 9.0c
Windows XP SP2 with all patches applied.
If this is known feel free to dump this

Now I must learn to manage my civ

 

[skyyrie]

i want to know also,mayby you can try the new patch 1.52
i heard someone make it work on intel 845

 

[BerndN]

Sorry for the long delay. It runs and it only runs with the latest patch. Slight improvements in performance after using the unpacking utility.
Still not successful with level noble

 

[lanius]

I am also thinking about playing civ4 on such a laptop. What resolution are you playing on? How good is the performance later in the game, around 1900 or 2000 or with the whole worldmap revealed?

 

[auldian]

There are no guarantees. The graphics adapter in your notebook is at the bottom of the spec. Follow all the successful suggestions in the forum threads about improving performance. Lean settings (civilizationiv.ini too), updated audio, chipset, video, DirectX, etc.

Civ3 was a "most used" notebook app for me in the past. I hope you see acceptable results with Civ4.

Post any progress if you would.

 

[BerndN]

Resolution is only 1024*768 but this notebook isn't able to do more .
Some graphics are missing (animals. You only see the shadows ) Performance later will be at the threshold of pain but as I said it's not so important for me as the tactic is what I need to learn.
Can you express the lean settings auldian (or whoever) ?