Laptop users: who can play the game?

Can you run CIV4 on your laptop?

  • It runs flawlessly

    Votes: 31 31.0%
  • No (it crashes, shows black terrain, or other problems)

    Votes: 67 67.0%
  • I have more than one laptops and some work some not

    Votes: 2 2.0%

  • Total voters
    100
  • Poll closed .
I can but it just crashed. All was going well and then I built a wonder and on the mvoie BAM.

Although I had no problems with any before.. WTH??

I am using a VAIO 750 series. It has a centrino 1.8Mhz and I have 512Mb Ram so there should be no problem. I even have a nVidia 128Mb graphics card. I AM FREAKING TORKED!!!!

WHY DID IT BOOT ME!!!!!!!???!?!?!?!
 
It runs, but not Flawlessly.

I still don't have hammers and commerce, and the startup vid and the wonder vids stutter.

Mine also seems to minimize itself every 2-3 hours.

If I leave it alone (not moving the cursor within or around every 10 minutes) it minimizes.

I'm using a zd7010us HP
2.66 Ghz
512 MB-333Mhz SDRAM
NVIDIA Geforce4 448 Go 64 MB
 
Since this poll is posted on the Tech Support Forum, it might not be the most representative, scientifically accurate depiction of laptop Vs Civ IV performance...
 
Compaq Presario R3140US here. Had to update my drivers to get rid of the Black Terrain problem, but after that it runs. Of course, it tells me that my computer does not meet recommended standards, and thus it adjusts my video quality. So, it isn't flawless, but it does play, and is managable.
 
It plays but not flawlessly. Not being able to load a saved game is really making me angry. I always have to play it on "Quick" mode so I can be sure to finish a game before I have to go to sleep. Plus the thing gets bogged down towards the end of the game. If the thing ran any slower, I'd be going back a turn.
 
I didn't vote yet since I have only one night of playing experience. It runs fine (cross fingers) on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop with 2.0 Ghz Pentium M, 256 MB GeForce 6800 Go PCI Express card, 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM, Win XP Pro with Windows managing my virtual memory. Even on the highest resolution on my 17" widescreen LCD (1900x1200?) and 4x AA it ran fine.

But again, this is based on the first night after initial installation.
 
nope...Thinkpad T40...Radeon 7500 32MB ram...see my other posts (black terrain, no hammer/gold icons)
 
Toshiba M200 - GeForce Go 5200, 32MB - runs without glitches so far, intolerably slow

Dell 700M - Intel Gfx, 64MB - Black terrain issue, otherwise seems to be running quite fast.

Dell 9300 - GeForce Go 6800, 256MB - Coming today, bought it just for this game, I have high hopes :)
 
It works for me, but not flawlessly.

I have a Dell Inspiron 600m with at Radeon Mobility 9000 32MB. I do not have any startup problems or graphics problems. Initially, the game runs great. I don't have any lagging or slow response, even with animations, etc activated.

However, the supposed memory leak gives me major problems. I can play for about 15 or 20 minutes just fine, after that CPU hits 100% and it's all I can do to save and exit the program. Sometimes I can't exit and I have to use task manager to terminate the program. Once I restart Civ4 and reload my saved game, I get another 15 or 20 minutes of play before repeating this ritual.

Shepherdboy
 
Works for me but bogs down a LOT in the late game

2.6 ghz, radeon 9700 64mb ram (omega drivers), 768mb ram. Large maps are out. I can get to the 1700's before it stops working.

My computer SMOKES the requirements and it doesn't work. I have three suggestions.

1. Fix whatever is causing the slowdown
2. Option to turn off fog of war. Worldview fix still leaves a dark map.
3. More options to turn down graphics quality.
 
Works on a Dell Inspiron 2200.

I hit a major lag in 1972 but saved and closed down the machine. Loaded up the scenario, which took a while, and got my butt kicked by the AI. The game was slower than normal after 1972 but playable.
 
wtw said:
Works on a Dell Inspiron 2200.

I hit a major lag in 1972 but saved and closed down the machine. Loaded up the scenario, which took a while, and got my butt kicked by the AI. The game was slower than normal after 1972 but playable.


I have the same laptop, runs fine as well. just a little choppy sometimes.
 
CiV4 is running flowlessly on my Sony Vaio FS115Z.
Not a single crash occured till now (3 full games played in Epic mode).
 
lukas4 said:
Not a chance with an Intel 855GM Extreme Graphics 2, 64mb shared RAM.

Getting a new comp next week :D :D

Yeah thats what I have on my laptop :) I can guarantee you it won't work out of the box, I may just want to see if there is any software T&L emulation that may work though.

I doubt it will, but I may give it a shot.
 
Black terrain on my Sony Vaio PCG-K33. Don't know how to fix this, besides turn it on world builder.
 
I have a Compaq Presario 2195us- 512ram, 1.8ghz Athlon 2500+, and Radeon igp 320M.

Pretty crappy so far. I ran the two 'solutions' for graphics problems (deleting the cache and extracting the art file from assets). It was slow with black terrain, bread only, and eyes-and-chompers leaderheads. Last night went into the world editor to give myself satallites to reveal all the terrain. this worked, although everything seemed kind of murky (didn't mess around with options though to see about brightening). Still had the bread only problem. Game was pretty slow, and crashed before I had my second city built. Not sure what caused it- if I remember I was just mousing over terrain, but screen went black, speakers started clicking, and had to shut off my machine (couldn't even force-quit).

I'm going to return it or trade it to someone and wait for the mac version.
 
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