charleswatkins said:I understand that Civ IV is hungry for memory. But is there some way to avoid some of the obnoxious side effects?
1. I would like to be able to listen to streaming audio (like Air America Radio) while playing. But as time goes on, Civ begins to impede the audio feed and it eventually breaks off.
2. After exiting a Civ game, it seems to not have released its memory resources, so I have to wait a couple of minutes to run something else.
3. After breaking out with Alt-TAB, it seems to take forever to resume.
1. must be a conflict with the game.no more streaming audio I guess,sometimes you have to make sacrifices
2.That had happened to me when I first got the game.More memory is needed.
3.Again MEMORY......How fast is your cpu,video card
What are your specs? Whatever you do don't go by the "Minimum Specs" on the box. If you don't have at least 1 gig of ram don't expect much from this game. 1.5 would be great. The game uses alot of resources. So no unescessary programs running in the background or loading at start-up.
Good luck!
My specs AMD 2.167 XP 3000+
1.5 gig of ram
WinFast 6600GT 128 mb video