Is civ4 more CPU or GPU bound?

[Melhisedek]

Hello there folks,
was just wondering which is that I should upgrade/overclock to get out some more FPS when playing

Thank you for your time!

 

[ori]

Civ4 needs the following in this order:
RAM
RAM
RAM
RAM
Graphics memory
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CPU speed

GPU speed does not give much - though it probably ranks somewhere below CPU in effect

 

[GVBN]

He's talking about frame rate. Civ4 and most modern games are GPU bound

 

[Melhisedek]

Well I have 2 Gig RAM. Actually I'm having no problems in Windows, but I'm trying to get playable framerates in Linux as well. I know drivers and game aren't optimized for Linux but I would still love to play without booting to Windows

 

[ori]

He's talking about frame rate. Civ4 and most modern games are GPU bound

I answered before having my first couple - I should stop doing this

 

[Fitzy_347]

so how well would it run on a laptop with a 2.2Ghz core2duo processor, 4gb ram and an Intel X3100?

 

[Melhisedek]

I suspect your graphics card would hold you back in that scenario...

 

[GVBN]

Yeah. Your frame rate should be around 15 with X3100

 

[cFccFc]

Macbook is that Fitzy?

 

[Fred Zeppelin]

so how well would it run on a laptop with a 2.2Ghz core2duo processor, 4gb ram and an Intel X3100?

Should run OK. The integrated graphics card might cause a bit of slowdown in the late game, but probably nothing game-killing.

 

[T.A JONES]

Fitzy the onboard will destroy performance on any large map . Nothing even something as crap as a 128 mb Radeon wouldn't take care of.