sun surfer
Chieftain
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- Feb 23, 2010
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Hi, just got Civ V last week and am loving it! 
I bought a physical copy which made me set up through Steam which I've never used before but it was pretty easy to do. I've played two games so far - one on a Standard Map Size/Continents/Standard Speed and one on a Large Map Size/Small Continents/Quick Speed.
The graphic settings were automatically set by the game to almost all the lowest settings (some even on "Minimum" - my poor leaders in diplomacy are just static cartoon pictures that don't even move!
). Rather than try right away to force higher settings I've just played on the low ones for now hoping for great performance before switching higher.
Unfortunately the performance has been slow and stuttery even with these low settings, especially later in the game and especially on the Large map I played. Sometimes on the later turns I'd wait almost a minute after pressings next turn while it processed everything. In the later game I even started playing almost completely in Strategy mode to speed it up a bit which is way uglier to play on and still takes a long time between turns but makes scrolling and movement during my turn faster.
Oh and the game quit all the sudden on the very first turn of my second game but so far that's the only time it's quit. And one other thing - on some tiles there are little red things - they kind of look like the top to a hut or lava on a mountain or something but it's obvious they're not - I haven't seen very many so far but when I do they're very noticeably a bright unnatural red and they never go away from that tile until and if I build something over it.
So, what I'm hoping for of course is to have the game work faster, but not only that but also to up the settings to at least medium and still be able to play well, and also I want to play the biggest maps and have it play well.
Here's the specs on my Mac:
Macbook Pro 13"
Late 2009 model
Version 10.6.8
2.26 GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Graphics Card
I think it's Snow Leopard - I haven't updated yet so it's whatever it came with
I know it might not work perfectly but I'd expect it to work better than it seems to so far (but anyway I'm just glad it works).
What I'm wondering is, is this normal and is there anything I can do to make it better and what's the best settings and largest maps I should be able to play on?
For now I'm using this laptop but I'm also considering getting a new computer by the end of the year - I'll probably get another Mac and was looking to just update the laptop but I may get a desktop instead if it may help game speeds.
Thanks for any help!
I bought a physical copy which made me set up through Steam which I've never used before but it was pretty easy to do. I've played two games so far - one on a Standard Map Size/Continents/Standard Speed and one on a Large Map Size/Small Continents/Quick Speed.
The graphic settings were automatically set by the game to almost all the lowest settings (some even on "Minimum" - my poor leaders in diplomacy are just static cartoon pictures that don't even move!
). Rather than try right away to force higher settings I've just played on the low ones for now hoping for great performance before switching higher.Unfortunately the performance has been slow and stuttery even with these low settings, especially later in the game and especially on the Large map I played. Sometimes on the later turns I'd wait almost a minute after pressings next turn while it processed everything. In the later game I even started playing almost completely in Strategy mode to speed it up a bit which is way uglier to play on and still takes a long time between turns but makes scrolling and movement during my turn faster.
Oh and the game quit all the sudden on the very first turn of my second game but so far that's the only time it's quit. And one other thing - on some tiles there are little red things - they kind of look like the top to a hut or lava on a mountain or something but it's obvious they're not - I haven't seen very many so far but when I do they're very noticeably a bright unnatural red and they never go away from that tile until and if I build something over it.
So, what I'm hoping for of course is to have the game work faster, but not only that but also to up the settings to at least medium and still be able to play well, and also I want to play the biggest maps and have it play well.
Here's the specs on my Mac:
Macbook Pro 13"
Late 2009 model
Version 10.6.8
2.26 GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Graphics Card
I think it's Snow Leopard - I haven't updated yet so it's whatever it came with
I know it might not work perfectly but I'd expect it to work better than it seems to so far (but anyway I'm just glad it works).
What I'm wondering is, is this normal and is there anything I can do to make it better and what's the best settings and largest maps I should be able to play on?
For now I'm using this laptop but I'm also considering getting a new computer by the end of the year - I'll probably get another Mac and was looking to just update the laptop but I may get a desktop instead if it may help game speeds.
Thanks for any help!
And I can only imagine how much prettier this game is going to be once I can turn the settings up...
