Jarouik
Chieftain
I have a five-year-old computer (Athlon 2.16 GHz, 1 GB RAM) I have used for playing Civ4 for a number of years. My display card was an old AGP Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB, and recently I got fed up with the game crashing regularly later on (apparently video memory ran out), so I got a cheap Nvidia 6200 instead in the hopes that 256 MB video memory would be enough. Also, I figured Civ would run well on it given that it is advertised when starting the game 
Anyhow, it seems that Nvidia 6200 actually performs worse with Civ4 than my old Radeon. Even when starting, the cursor lags behind, and all animations stutter, as does scrolling the map. Is this card really such crap, or does anyone have an idea how to speed things up? I have already lowered quality settings etc., and I have installed the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com.
Interestingly, with ATI the graphics worked very smoothly unless I switched to another window (playing in window mode), when it would suffer major slowdown. With Nvidia, also in fullscreen, graphics are slow all the time, and are not affected by having other windows on top of it, transparency effects etc. Therefore, it would seem like Nvidia drivers like to run my 3D graphics in some kind of compatibility mode, which are very slow but compatible with other windows overlapping the game, several displays (I have two) etc. Is there anyone who has the game running fine who would tell me what settings exactly they are using in Nvidia control panel?
Anyhow, it seems that Nvidia 6200 actually performs worse with Civ4 than my old Radeon. Even when starting, the cursor lags behind, and all animations stutter, as does scrolling the map. Is this card really such crap, or does anyone have an idea how to speed things up? I have already lowered quality settings etc., and I have installed the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com.
Interestingly, with ATI the graphics worked very smoothly unless I switched to another window (playing in window mode), when it would suffer major slowdown. With Nvidia, also in fullscreen, graphics are slow all the time, and are not affected by having other windows on top of it, transparency effects etc. Therefore, it would seem like Nvidia drivers like to run my 3D graphics in some kind of compatibility mode, which are very slow but compatible with other windows overlapping the game, several displays (I have two) etc. Is there anyone who has the game running fine who would tell me what settings exactly they are using in Nvidia control panel?
