Flatline23
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For some reason my ASUS 865PE Mobo blew up tonight, luckily I had my old Gigabyte 875 Titan mobo in the closet (originally switched cuz the 875 blew up and I just bought a new one while getting the 875 replaced). So, after an hour or two of replacing mobos and getting windows all happy again (a simple process, because the 865PE and 875 chipsets are basically identical from a driver standpoint), I get back online, and test out some games and such to see what sort of differences I notice, if any.
Basically, no differences in any other games, EXCEPT Civ4. On the old motherboard, the 865PE, the globe map was incredibly laggy. On this one, the 875P, it's zippy and responsive. I havent had time to see if it crashes in the usual places yet.
Now, keep in mind that NO new drivers were installed on my system. The installers for the two chipsets are identical, and windows asked for nothing except the sound card drivers (Soundmax on the 865, Realtek AC97 on the 875). I had tried the 865 without sound support to see if that made a difference and it did not, but that seems to be the only major difference. All bios settings were replicated by me between the two motherboards, nothing special was enabled.
No idea if this will get to Firaxis for bugtesting, but thought I'd report it anyway.
System specs: Pentium 4 HT 3.2 GHz, Asus 9600XT, 1 Gig Corsair RAM. Laggy mobo Asus P4P800SE, zippy mobo Gigabyte 8IK1100 (875P Rev2).
Basically, no differences in any other games, EXCEPT Civ4. On the old motherboard, the 865PE, the globe map was incredibly laggy. On this one, the 875P, it's zippy and responsive. I havent had time to see if it crashes in the usual places yet.
Now, keep in mind that NO new drivers were installed on my system. The installers for the two chipsets are identical, and windows asked for nothing except the sound card drivers (Soundmax on the 865, Realtek AC97 on the 875). I had tried the 865 without sound support to see if that made a difference and it did not, but that seems to be the only major difference. All bios settings were replicated by me between the two motherboards, nothing special was enabled.
No idea if this will get to Firaxis for bugtesting, but thought I'd report it anyway.
System specs: Pentium 4 HT 3.2 GHz, Asus 9600XT, 1 Gig Corsair RAM. Laggy mobo Asus P4P800SE, zippy mobo Gigabyte 8IK1100 (875P Rev2).
