Laptop users: who can play the game?

[civ_wander]

I have a Thinkpad t42 with a Radeon 7500 32MB ram. The game installs and runs but with black terrain issue with the triangles in the water. What is funny is that the game works better the longer you play. I am currently in the 20th century in my game, and don't have any performance issues, and most of the black terrain is gone. So to me,, the question of .. 'do you have enough machine ?' is answered. Of course you do if the game runs fine in the late stages. It must be a bug in the centering of the revealed terrain, Not a hardware limitation.

 

[Wiz33]

Run perfectly on an Acer 8104, P-M 2.0, 1GB, 128MB X700 (using Mobility 5.9 driver). Even hosted a 6 players LAN game with 3 human and 3 AI with no problem.

 

[Nightfa11]

Ok, so then.....if centering the terrain is the problem, and stonehenge centers terrain, then you should be able to just center the terrain via a switch and explore like normal? Something that might work...I'll have to try it later....

 

[armus]

First install I got no intro movie, no menu.

Tried these drivers: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/atidriv mobility.htm
it solved my problems on my HP nc6000 with an ATI 9600 mobile.

-armus

 

[ruff_hi]

The install went about the same as any other software install. I started CIV 4 and got some very nice music but a blue screen to start with. Then I got a nice globe, clouds rolling across - actually two layers of clouds with CIV 4 across the top but that was it. I couldn't do anything from there.

I checked this forum and saw that I needed to update my ATI vid driver. Followed directions and got a driver from June 2005 (instead of something like Feb 2003). Reboot, restart game and - CULTURE BOMB - nice intro movie, globe with menu(!), game runs fine. I'm busy trying to attack with my defense only units (duh) - guess I should actually step thru the tutorial.

Cheers,

Ruff_Hi

 

[bohica]

I have a Thinkpad t42 with a Radeon 7500 32MB ram. The game installs and runs but with black terrain issue with the triangles in the water. What is funny is that the game works better the longer you play. I am currently in the 20th century in my game, and don't have any performance issues, and most of the black terrain is gone. So to me,, the question of .. 'do you have enough machine ?' is answered. Of course you do if the game runs fine in the late stages. It must be a bug in the centering of the revealed terrain, Not a hardware limitation.

I have a Thinkpad T40 with Mobility Radeon 7500 32Mb as well. I have installed the latest ATI drivers but as I exploure the map, the terrain is not revelead. what am I doing wrong or what fo I need to set?

 

[Cosmic_Fist]

I have a Dell Inspiron 8200, Pentium 4m 2Ghz, 1G RAM, with a Geforce 440 Go 64Mb card, using the latest Omega drivers, and with a fixed virtual RAM of 1.5G.

On the first couple of games I played, I had the graphics at the default values and turned the resollution all the way up. After a couple of turns, it got a bit slow, so I turned the resolution all the way down. I started having serious slowdown problems around the 17th century, and it became so slow it was unplayable.

What I did then was to turn all the graphics options to minimum, and now the game runs flawlessly! Ok, maybe that's a bit of an overstatement, but it's not like I have to wait 3 whole minutes after I end each turn, now it's more like 20-30 secs in the late game. I can live with that.

So if you haven't tried it yet (took me a week before I even thought of it), try turning all the graphics options down to minimum. After all, I think most of you play this game for it's content, not it's graphics.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I can't even get it to load.

I'm running a PIV - 1.7GHz, 512M ram, ATI Radean

 

[thedrexciyans]

I can't really believe it. My Dell Inspiron 3.00ghz, 256 ati mobility radeon 9800, 256 ram, all the latest drivers...tried that ati fix...and it still doesnt work, i cant get anywhere with it. Whats going wrong? just get that render issue on the screen.

 

[Stemil]

I can play, but by no means flawlessly. I had a XML problem at first, but that was fixed by updating the microsoft xml parser. Now I have no real 'bugs'. The game seemed to be running ok in the beginning, but it has gradually slowed down, and now it's pretty much unplayable, every turn taking 5 min or so. (cirka 1830 AD with the largest map)

Specs:

Acer Aspire 3022 WLMi
AMD 2800+ mobile processor (1,6Ghz)
512 RAM
Radeon Mobility x600
15,4" widescreen

I've turned all graphics to low, and used the cfg to try and improve performance. But the only thing that has any effect was running the game in windowed mode. I'm gessing this has to do with the fact that in fullscreen the game isn't in my computer's native resolution, so the graphics card has to do additional calculations to widen the image.

Now I'm going to try the Catalyst 4.12 drivers somebody suggested.

 

[Psylone]

I take it that I dont' have a chance to become uncommon cause I unfortunately faced most of the described issues. Black terrain and funny eyes-and-chompers are making me mad on my HP nx5000 (Intel 855GM).
Even the latest drivers downloaded directly from Intel (HP has outdated version posted on support site) couldn't help to resolve the issue. Although the initial splash-movie has started to run slightly better.

 

[Ode]

Works fine on my Dell Inspiron 8200 with Radeon Mobility 9000.

Only flaw is I suck at it. lol

 

[MrCynical]

It works fine on my Dell Inspiron 5160. Specs:

Pentium 4 2.8GHz
512M RAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

So far no bugs, graphics glitches, CTDs etc. It is rather slow to end the turn in the late game, but nowhere near as bad as Civ 3 could be sometimes. Intro and wonder movies all run smoothly.

 

[webhsu]

Stupid me - should have read this thread before purchasing.

I have a 700m with Intel 855GM ...

It loads fine, and even runs ok, but I get the black terrain problem as well as the - 'see eye and teeth' only problem.

suckage!

 

[crazypooljunkie]

I've got the black terrain problem but I've been using the reveal entire map "fix" My computer doesn't quite meet the requirement either though. But with the fix I can at least see the terrain though I still have a problem with the leaderheads and I can only see the bread. Which also doesn't change with any improvments I put down which really just makes city management sort of difficult but i can deal with it. Game slows down the longer I play it so I do suspect some sort of memory leak but it usually takes a couple hours before it becoms unplayable but I do have to do a full reboot afterwards otherwise my computer can't really do anything. Anyway, it runs but it shouldn't and it doesn't do it flawlessly by any means...

 

[Borgskier]

Dell Inspiron 8200, P4 2GHz 512RAM, Nvidia GEForce2 GO, XP sp2
Runs OK, but way too slow, then slows down more after about an hour.
Probably adding memory today, hopefully 1G will work better.

If I have a memory leak, why isn't it wet under my laptop?

 

[funkymunky]

Has anyone figured out a solution to the problem with missing hammers and commerce in the city map? I've read a few people having that problem, but haven't read all posts to see if there's a solution. I updated my video drivers to my GeForce Go 420 and it fixed the black tiles problem, but still get stuttering video and the bread only problems. Don't know if any graphics card tools can fix this or if it's a patchable fix.

 

[webhsu]

I guess i need to apply the black terrain patch...

once I get Satellite tech advance....I see everything!!!

(running on Dell 700m; 855 gm)

 

[Oni]

My problem seems to be memory leakage. I never have any problems unless I am playing for an hour or so.
Then the whople system crashes

 

[tfong]

Mine runs perfectly, no problems.

Compaq R4125CA
AMD 3500+
ATI x200 Mobile
1.25 gigs of ram.