Marcus I.
Chieftain
Probably not, try the demo first
Oh....please, come on... give me some other answer... i have pre-ordered it...
Do I have at least a chance?
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Oh....please, come on... give me some other answer... i have pre-ordered it...
Do I have at least a chance?
tokala
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Oh....please, come on... give me some other answer... i have pre-ordered it...
Do I have at least a chance?
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stealth_nsk
Deity
50/50, you should try demo.
Marcus I.
Chieftain
Well, I will buy a new graphics card, if it doesnt work - as soon as I have money for that... Friday, the 24th will be a very thrilling day for me. 
tokala
Emperor
Well, I will buy a new graphics card, if it doesnt work - as soon as I have money for that... Friday, the 24th will be a very thrilling day for me.
The demo will be available already 3 days earlier
And the good news is that decent video cards already start at around 70,- these days
Marcus I.
Chieftain
The demo will be available already 3 days earlier
And the good news is that decent video cards already start at around 70,- these days
So if the Demo will work fine, there is no question, that the real game will work somehow, right? If so, I will decide on the 21st.. will the demo be available to download (stupid question, i know)?
tokala
Emperor
Yepp, the demo might be based on an earlier, less optimized build, so if anything the release version should run better. Demo will be on Steam.
that is a friggin awesome CPU!
I have upgrade-itis, I just need to upgrade and get new stuff all the time.
I just bought two Samsung 2 Tb F4 drives because I found them reduced to £81 on offer and they are significantly faster than the 2 Tb Seagate LP drive I bought just a few weeks ago, so I'll just sell the Seagate drive.
I'll be playing Civ 4 on my Raid 0 Samsung F3s, those are blazingly fast and reduce the need to have an expensive SSD for video games, and my loading limes in all my games pretty much got chopped in half after I raided them. And I have a 64 Gb crucial SSD for windows.
These are my current drives:
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And then the Samsung F4 2 Tb just got released, and this is someone elses result on theirs:
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Its a lot better than my crappy Seagate LP storage drive, plus its exactly the same price, so I ordered two while they were on offer at £81 and will just sell my Seagate (My current 2 Tb backup drive is down to 500 Gb after I completed all my backups and moved all my games onto the Raided F3s, so a second one will be needed soon anyway).
Also, my CPU is currently my PC's bottleneck:
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And I really want a 32 nm Hex core to try and push to 4.5 Ghz, but they currently cost far too much. I'm hoping they will fall in price when Sandybridge is released, I can completely skip the next socket and just get an I7 970 instead if it ever drops in price (I love my current Rampage III Extreme motherboard and dont want to change to the next socket). I'm not paying anywhere over £300 for a CPU, and the I7 970 price is just ridiculous at over £650 :x.
My ram is superb though, 12 Gb running completely stable at 1600 Mhz with 6-8-6-20 timings. It doesnt need to be any higher with those timings, and due to only being at 1600 Mhz, it doesnt get very hot and shouldnt ever burn out.
But, I bet I will still get slowdown in Civ V
grahamneilclark
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Please excuse my ignorance but I have an intel core i7 cpu 640 1.2ghz 4mb cache does that meet the recommended cpu requirements
tokala
Emperor
As the NVS 3100M it is a workstation card and a fairly underpowered one to boot, you might get it to work at low settings, but you can expect low perfromance and the occasional graphics glitch. Rest of the system is fine
Recommended? It's below "minimum"
And as it probably won't have a dedicated GPU, that one would be below "minimum", too. If your specimen is able to run with active turbo mode in Civ5, it might get just up to the "minimum" level.RD-BH
Human
c't magazine (those guys seriously know their stuff) did extensive benchmark tests comparing XP SP3, Vista SP2 and Win7 in issue 18/2009. They found no significant differences on mainstream and above hardware (C2D 2.13GHz/2GB and better). On a Netbook XP was up to 10% faster than Win7 though, and Win7 felt sluggish with really slow/old harddrives (2002 model). On modern systems Win7 felt faster than Vista/XP due to better responsiveness
I am getting senile.
I've posted a correction on my previous post.
The recommended spec is a 1.8 Ghz quad, and seeing that you are using a laptop, I dont think that you will have a capable graphics card either (most likely an integrated one).
I love the Civ 5 requirements, shiny specs and graphics for people who actually have a computer built for gaming.
The specs arent even that high, a 1.8 Ghz quad, 4 Gb ram and an ATI 4850 is hardly anything tbh.
I looked up that video card, it is horrible and I doubt it will be enough.
It only has 16 cores and 64 bit memory interface, which is really bad.
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Guys do you think the nVidia 9400m integrated graphics card will meet the minimum specs?
Minimum Nvidia card is 7900 GS. This has 9 billion/sec pixel fillrate, and 42.2 Gb/s memory bandwidth.
THe 9400m has just 3.6 billion/sec pixel fillrate, and 21 Gb/s memory bandwidth, so no, it doesnt meet the minimum specs.
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Prince
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What about the i3 and i5 integrated graphics specs, how do they compare against the 9400m?
culdeus
Emperor
Well, I guess I'm going to end my Civ career at Civ 5. I will never own another desktop. It's been maybe 12 years since I've actually used one. Just too impractical for my work and life.
Not going to spend 500 bucks to play this game.
Maybe somewhere down the road laptops will have specs which will support this, but I'm dubious. Gaming rigs are always overpriced, and underproduced making deals few and far between.
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Not going to spend 500 bucks to play this game.
Maybe somewhere down the road laptops will have specs which will support this, but I'm dubious. Gaming rigs are always overpriced, and underproduced making deals few and far between.
:violin:
I agree wholeheartedly ...
I just found a review for the NVS 3100M:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-NVS-3100M.24738.0.html
"should be sufficient for low end games and demanding games in very low detail settings and resolutions"
Unfortunately, Civ V doesn't appear to fall under that description.
culdeus
Emperor
I think it's understandable to justify people spending another 50 bucks or whatever it is to pump the graphics content up, but honestly the graphics package doesn't need anything beyond what you find in UniWar.
I imagine at one point or another someone wished they'd do a CIV4 expansion pack to integrate the new features. Put me in that camp I guess.
I imagine at one point or another someone wished they'd do a CIV4 expansion pack to integrate the new features. Put me in that camp I guess.
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