Official System Requirements
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Hi everyone!
I've been a member for quite a few years. I have never had to post anything on here as I could find stuff out just by searching the forums.
Anyways i'm realy unlucky as I just upgraded my laptop 5 months ago and I had not considered that Civ V was coming out. So I will have to upgrade again! I went for small and good battery life.
Ah well.
I was wondering on what laptop someone could recommend to me I don't want to have to buy a third one! But also I don't want to spend 2000 euros on a top of the range laptop. I would say max probably 1300 euros but cheaper would be nicer. Something which will handle the game fine right through to late game too. I was thinking I will need as much ram as posssible again so was thinking more than 4 gb.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Also does anyone live in holland who can recommend a good computer shop in amsterdam. Or if schiphol airport is any good.
Many thanks
Matthew
I've been a member for quite a few years. I have never had to post anything on here as I could find stuff out just by searching the forums.
Anyways i'm realy unlucky as I just upgraded my laptop 5 months ago and I had not considered that Civ V was coming out. So I will have to upgrade again! I went for small and good battery life.
Ah well.
I was wondering on what laptop someone could recommend to me I don't want to have to buy a third one! But also I don't want to spend 2000 euros on a top of the range laptop. I would say max probably 1300 euros but cheaper would be nicer. Something which will handle the game fine right through to late game too. I was thinking I will need as much ram as posssible again so was thinking more than 4 gb.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Also does anyone live in holland who can recommend a good computer shop in amsterdam. Or if schiphol airport is any good.
Many thanks
Matthew
NorseGryphon
Chieftain
ooooh hope my ancient 256mb agp card can handle the biz >.<
Hey there,
Can't help you with Swedish shops unfortunately (lol), but I did manage to find a computer that should be a good match.
The Alienware M15X laptop has the following specs:
*1.6 Ghz Core i7 (though below recommended technically, it has been stated that the core i7 performs much better at 1.6 ghz than other quads at even higher clocks)
*4 GB RAM (upgrade to 8 if you want, probably not necessary though)
*GTX 260 Graphics card (I checked this out and it is a bit better than the 9800GS, putting you at a little over recommended video graphics!)
That would comfortable put you at over recommended.
I realize this is over you price range at about 2000 euros, but gaming laptops that will be able to handle civ are kinda few and far between. Hope this helps.
MAINGEAR eX-L 15
16:9 LED Display (1600x900) (15.6")
1x HDMI output/1x DVI-I output /4x USB 2.0 Ports /1x eSATA Port/1x Firewire/1 Headphone/1 Mic /1 Express Card 34-54 Slot /7-in-1 Card Reader
i7-720QM 1.60GHz
Radeon 5870 Mobility (1GB GDDR5)
4GB DDR3-1333
$1,783 (1,322 EUR)
Alienware is overpriced POS since Dell took it over
GTX 260M is actually below recommended (generally Mobile GPUs have 1/2 the power of the desktop version or less)
tokala
Emperor
Some very general tips:
Laptop that can handle Civ start around 700 Euro.
You will not need more than 4GB for Civ, period.
Laptop processors get VERY expensive if you approach the high-end segment, for very little speed gain.
Go for a DX11 video chip, as some DX10 ones seem to have issues.
Good ones start with with the ATI/AMD mobility HD5650.
Laptop buyers guide.
Hi guys,
I'm running an i7-Q720 CPU @1.60 Ghz with 4 gigs of RAM and a 1 gig nVidia GEForce GT330M. On the surface I thought that looked like it should be more than sufficient. However, when I tried my first game last night, all the video settings were automatically set to medium or low. My question: should I even try to set them to high and give it a go, or will my graphics card just not be able to handle it? (I don't know a thing about graphics cards, basically... )
Thanks in advance - this is my first post in 3 years, glad to be back!
I'm running an i7-Q720 CPU @1.60 Ghz with 4 gigs of RAM and a 1 gig nVidia GEForce GT330M. On the surface I thought that looked like it should be more than sufficient. However, when I tried my first game last night, all the video settings were automatically set to medium or low. My question: should I even try to set them to high and give it a go, or will my graphics card just not be able to handle it? (I don't know a thing about graphics cards, basically... )
Thanks in advance - this is my first post in 3 years, glad to be back!
slowly increase them one by one (BTW only use DX 9 version)
It is DX 10.1 not DX 11
I must totally be doing this Steam thing wrong. I have never used a game that requires Steam so I honestly don't have any preconceived notions about how it should work. I just know that I bought the game on Thursday (special edition no less!) and here it is Sunday and I'm still watching the Steam download screen dribbling along a 5 or 10 kb/s, with more than 4 gigs to go.
Steam has no customer service that I can discern. Emails to their designated address receive an automated "Thanks for writing! We will respond (some day) by email."
I disabled my firewall to see if that would help. Forwarded ports. Enabled p2p. Disabled p2p. Nothing seems to work. Since I have recently downloaded 16 gigs of the World of Warcraft expansion edition, I know that I should be able to receive information a heckuva lot faster than what Steam is delivering.
Anyone have any thoughts on whatever it is I'm doing wrong?
Steam has no customer service that I can discern. Emails to their designated address receive an automated "Thanks for writing! We will respond (some day) by email."
I disabled my firewall to see if that would help. Forwarded ports. Enabled p2p. Disabled p2p. Nothing seems to work. Since I have recently downloaded 16 gigs of the World of Warcraft expansion edition, I know that I should be able to receive information a heckuva lot faster than what Steam is delivering.
Anyone have any thoughts on whatever it is I'm doing wrong?
Oh okay. I was just going with what it says in the official system requirements and on the box: DirectX® version 11
Regardless, you recommend running it in DX 9?
Go with the DX 9 version, it will struggle with the DX 11
Planning on buying a laptop to get my hands on Civ5. Cheapest option (600e) I came across that in my opinion might run it at least with reduced graphics was like this:
15.6" HD LED (1366 x 768) BrightView
AMD Athlon II P320 2.1 GHz
4 GB DDR3
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 545v 512MB DDR3
Mostly worried with the CPU. Don't know if I should also worry about GPU. Is it enough to enjoy playing Civ5? Thanks in advance!
Would I make a better deal by buying this (with +100e):
15.6" HD LED (1366x768) ColorShine
Intel Pentium T4500 2.3 GHz
4GB (2x2) DDR3-1066
nVidia GeForce GT 310M 1GB?
15.6" HD LED (1366 x 768) BrightView
AMD Athlon II P320 2.1 GHz
4 GB DDR3
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 545v 512MB DDR3
Mostly worried with the CPU. Don't know if I should also worry about GPU. Is it enough to enjoy playing Civ5? Thanks in advance!
Would I make a better deal by buying this (with +100e):
15.6" HD LED (1366x768) ColorShine
Intel Pentium T4500 2.3 GHz
4GB (2x2) DDR3-1066
nVidia GeForce GT 310M 1GB?
Given my past experiences I fear for either of those configurations. Get a desktop if at all possible.
Mercade
the Counsellor
Many shops in the Netherlands are selling the NVidia GT 240 instead of the 9800. Is the GT 240 indeed roughly equivalent to the recommended settings? Does anyone have experience with the GT 240?
Also, would you expect a noticible effect of 1024 MB of GRAM over 512 MB? It recommends 512 MB, but getting 1024 isn't that much more expensive.
Thanks.
Also, would you expect a noticible effect of 1024 MB of GRAM over 512 MB? It recommends 512 MB, but getting 1024 isn't that much more expensive.
Thanks.
Hello all,
I decided to download the Civilization V demo before ordering the real thing. The intro movie plays without a problem, but as soon as the movie is done my display shows "Out of frequency". I changed my refreshrate a couple of times, but that didn't work.
I had a look at the (minimum) requirements and that ought to be fine (the minimum, that is). In other words: I have no idea what the problem is?
My set up:
Acer Veriton M420
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
3328 MB Ram
ATi Radeon HD 3200
DirectX 9c
Fujitsu Siemens SCALEOVIEW 19-1 (display)
According to Canyourunit, the CPU and video ought to be the problem. But if I look at the official minimum requirements, this should be (just) enough to play.
Anyone has any ideas as to what the problem could be? Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
SolNuada
I decided to download the Civilization V demo before ordering the real thing. The intro movie plays without a problem, but as soon as the movie is done my display shows "Out of frequency". I changed my refreshrate a couple of times, but that didn't work.
I had a look at the (minimum) requirements and that ought to be fine (the minimum, that is). In other words: I have no idea what the problem is?
My set up:
Acer Veriton M420
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
3328 MB Ram
ATi Radeon HD 3200
DirectX 9c
Fujitsu Siemens SCALEOVIEW 19-1 (display)
According to Canyourunit, the CPU and video ought to be the problem. But if I look at the official minimum requirements, this should be (just) enough to play.
Anyone has any ideas as to what the problem could be? Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
SolNuada
tokala
Emperor
The gt240 is about as fast as a 9600GT. A 9800GT would be about 30% faster.
All of those are DX10 cards, I would not recommend any of them for Civ5, where those cards have tendency to cause trouble
The only logical choice in that pricerange is the HD5670 at the moment, but the aquivalent nVidia cards will be available in two weeks.
If you buy a GT240, get one with 512MB GDDR5 VRAM. 1024MB will at best be as fast, and as a worst case significantly slower (depending on the used RAM type).
trevort
Corporal of Marines
I second the recommendation on the HD5670. Mine works splendidly on the CIV5 demo.The gt240 is about as fast as a 9600GT. A 9800GT would be about 30% faster.
All of those are DX10 cards, I would not recommend any of them for Civ5, where those cards have tendency to cause trouble
The only logical choice in that pricerange is the HD5670 at the moment, but the aquivalent nVidia cards will be available in two weeks.
If you buy a GT240, get one with 512MB GDDR5 VRAM. 1024MB will at best be as fast, and as a worst case significantly slower (depending on the used RAM type).
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