Laptop recommendations
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I had to buy a new laptop in order to be able to play CIV IV (so not a very cheap game 
). The laptop I bought is a Fujitsu-Siemens A1667G and it has following specs:
AMD Turion 64 MT-32
1024 Mb memory DDR 333Mhz
80 Gb HDD
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 with 128 Mb memory
The price was approx. 1.300 eur here in Finland and CIV IV is running fine on my laptop.
More info can be found here:
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/home/products/notebooks/amilo_a_1667g.html
). The laptop I bought is a Fujitsu-Siemens A1667G and it has following specs:AMD Turion 64 MT-32
1024 Mb memory DDR 333Mhz
80 Gb HDD
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 with 128 Mb memory
The price was approx. 1.300 eur here in Finland and CIV IV is running fine on my laptop.
More info can be found here:
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/home/products/notebooks/amilo_a_1667g.html
roddy1984 said:
Centrino (also called Centrino Mobile Technology) is a marketing initiative from Intel for a particular combination of CPU, mainboard chipset and wireless network interface in the design of a laptop personal computer. The combination currently consists of a Pentium M processor, the Mobile Intel 915 Express chipset family or the Intel 855 chipset family, and an Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 (IEEE 802.11b), PRO/Wireless 2200 (IEEE 802.11bg) or PRO/Wireless 2915 (IEEE 802.11abg) network connection.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino
Sempron is the current low-end processor from AMD (similar to Intel Celeron).
Turion, on the other hand, is an AMD equivalent to Pentium M.
I have a Pentium M 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, shared video RAM 64MB, Fujitsu Siemens notebook and I can play e.g. the current GOTM without major problems at minimum settings.
bio_hazard
Prince
@roddy-
no expert here, but my impression from reading a lot of posts in the technical forum is that the CPU is probably the least important piece. Game performace is limited by the video card and RAM first, so if those are suboptimal it won't matter what processor you have.
no expert here, but my impression from reading a lot of posts in the technical forum is that the CPU is probably the least important piece. Game performace is limited by the video card and RAM first, so if those are suboptimal it won't matter what processor you have.
If it is any help, here is my configuration. I am fairly new at Civ IV (being a die-hard Civ II player) and I run this configuration without trouble:
Dell Inspiron 8200 (July 2002)
Pentium 4 Mobile @ 1.80 GHz
512 MB PC2100 RAM
NVidia Geforce 4 440 Go (64 MB)
Crystal WDM Audio
Windows 2000 SP4 Rollup 1
Game Settings:
Resolution 1024*768
All Graphic Options on "High"
The game runs smoothly and without a hitch on the Large Maps I have tried, right into the modern age. I have not tried a huge map yet, so I cannot make any guess there.
Remarks: 512 MB RAM is on the low end, I can see that the system is swapping a lot and running low on physical memory. Also the copy-protection is glitchy, I got the "Insert Correct Disk" message even with an orginal game CD. I know that my optical drive is not the best anymore, but I have not had this issue with any other game. So I have to use the CD image and SD4 hider approach to play. Once again: I DO own the original game.
Dell Inspiron 8200 (July 2002)
Pentium 4 Mobile @ 1.80 GHz
512 MB PC2100 RAM
NVidia Geforce 4 440 Go (64 MB)
Crystal WDM Audio
Windows 2000 SP4 Rollup 1
Game Settings:
Resolution 1024*768
All Graphic Options on "High"
The game runs smoothly and without a hitch on the Large Maps I have tried, right into the modern age. I have not tried a huge map yet, so I cannot make any guess there.
Remarks: 512 MB RAM is on the low end, I can see that the system is swapping a lot and running low on physical memory. Also the copy-protection is glitchy, I got the "Insert Correct Disk" message even with an orginal game CD. I know that my optical drive is not the best anymore, but I have not had this issue with any other game. So I have to use the CD image and SD4 hider approach to play. Once again: I DO own the original game.
Zydor
Emperor
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Can you give more specifics on the symptoms you are getting. It would seem you start ok, even with Large maps - but you dont say what happens then. eg in late games circa 1800s with lots of civs end industrial age/start modern:
slow turn times, slow game play, large save files, save games in mins not seconds, movie stutter, etc
There were some issues with some original CDs (they got the play disc label the wrong way round) that sparked off copy protection rumours - still maybe true to a degree, but its not the main issues with the beast. It could still be driver/pagefilefile/ini setting related, but I have a suspicion its the memory issue in your case. It would help to see your Dxdiag dumps and the additional symptoms before ripping the installation apart. Also, if you can run it in window mode, then in late game play post the memory use in Task Manager for civ.exe
(Start button - click -choose run - type dxdiag - press enter - let it chunter away for a min - select "save all information" - then post here using the 'advance' button below)
Regards
Zy
slow turn times, slow game play, large save files, save games in mins not seconds, movie stutter, etc
There were some issues with some original CDs (they got the play disc label the wrong way round) that sparked off copy protection rumours - still maybe true to a degree, but its not the main issues with the beast. It could still be driver/pagefilefile/ini setting related, but I have a suspicion its the memory issue in your case. It would help to see your Dxdiag dumps and the additional symptoms before ripping the installation apart. Also, if you can run it in window mode, then in late game play post the memory use in Task Manager for civ.exe
(Start button - click -choose run - type dxdiag - press enter - let it chunter away for a min - select "save all information" - then post here using the 'advance' button below)
Regards
Zy
