Ok for Laptops?

[Titus Pullo]

My video card is a Radeon IGP 320M,

It runs Pirates pretty well, I thought it would handle this too. Oh well. I'll try your fix later. Thanks.

 

[armerhund10]

New and better solution
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=140859
Please post your experience

 

[Hallard]

I have a loptop with a 64mb GeForce of one sort or another and 512mb ram and it tends to be a little choppy on my laptop... but I find it worth it...

 

[MorpheusPrince]

I have a laptop and it runs smooth....I like the fact that I can play this anywhere and everywhere.

 

[Brian_B]

Does anybody have this running smoothly on a laptop yet? I'm picking up my copy tomorrow but am concerned that it wont work on my system. My computer is 2 years old with the Moblity Raedon 7500 and 32 MB. Any help is great, thanks!

Should be fine -- I play on a Dell Inspiron 9200 that's two years old. I think the card is a 7400. Not sure on the amount of video RAM but I have 1 GB normal RAM.

 

[gettingfat]

It works on laptop. It works OK, maybe slightly slower. Just playing the game with mouse pad is not very very fun. Get a mouse.

 

[dan3005a]

Civ4 runs smoothly on my notebook. I'm running a 1.6GHz Dothan, 1GBH of ram, alongside a ATI Mobility Radeon X600 64MB graphic card.

Been having lots of fun on Civ4 =]

 

[Snerk]

It runs just fine on my inspiron6000 aswell. My pentium M 1.86ghz is pulling me thru alright. With some slowdown in late game though. The funny thing is that i didnt get any signifantly performace increase after upgrading from 512 to 2gig ram!... But between that and the patch im having a pretty smooth game..

 

[arl85]

acer travelmate 290. pentium M 1,3 GHz, 512 MB Ram, Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME integrated video card with 64 MB. min details,low resolution video and no background during video playback. it runs not so smooth, but it runs.

 

[Baloo]

I've got a 1.6 ghz duo core, with 1gb ram and an Intel GME 950 which supposed to not be able to run it at all, but it seems to be doing all right.

The problems with laptops is the integrated video card they sometimes come with. These things have a hard time handling big time graphics.

 

[tombeef]

I have a laptop, I manage to get by with 512 mb of RAM and a 2.2 ghz processor, and a crappy 64 mb graphics card, all on high level graphics. Just can't do huge maps, and large maps have lag in the end game.

 

[Roibeárd]

I also have an IBM Thinkpad T40 with Pentium M 1.5, ATI Mobility 7500 and 768Mb RAM. It's about two years old.

The first time I ran Civ IV, I had the "floating eyes and teeth" problem with leaderheads. I upgraded the ATI drivers and Civ runs OK now, even with high quality graphics at 1280 X 1024.

However: I have a few annoying problems:

1. Animal resources (horses, cows, pigs etc) are invisible. I see the shadows, but not the actual animals. Crabs are completely invisble.

2. The intro movie and the wonder movies don't play smoothly. I just skip them when they come up.

3. Of course late games, huge maps, and games with 18 Civs run slow between turns - but it seems as if everyone has this problem.

 

[ElJoepo]

Hey there, I pretty much bought a little more game-focused laptop especially for this game.

Intel Core Duo T2300 (1.66GHz; 2MB L2 Cache; 667Mhz FSB)
100Gb harddisk 4200RPM
2048Mb DDR2 533Mhz (2 x 1024)
DVD-SuperMulti Drive
4-in-1 cardreader/ DVI poort(!)
4 x USB 2.0/ Firewire/ S-Video TV Out
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 256Mb VGA/ Interne Webcam
15.4" WXGA ColorShine TFT (1280 x 800)
Windows XP Home NL/UK/FR
Internal W-LAN 54Mbps (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG)/ Bluetooth 2.0
2 jaar pick-up & return garantie
Gratis Draagtas, Optische Muis

The game plays very nicely and smooth, but also starts with long loading times on huge maps, not very slow end turns.. Also major map trading really lags the game, also during the initial minute of the game it's a bit laggy. I wonder wether a faster HD would have been a better choice instead of a 100GB one of which I don't even use 80 GB of it? (eg: 60 GB, 7200 TPM?)

BTW, I was so happy I could finally play those movies... I couldn't play them on my other comp, but when I saw them I was rather dissatisfied... I expected a little more, like the slaves being whipped when I built the pyramids and such...

 

[mutax2003]

I have a Dell Inspiron 9300, 1.77 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 64 MB video memory on ATI Mobility Radeon x300. Civ 4 runs great on it.

 

[vyapti]

Fujitsu 6010
1.8ghz/512mb ram/radeon 9700, 128mb

works fine. I haven't had a problem since day one.

 

[HamTard]

Got 6800 Go on my laptop. It runs Civ4 fine, but it's still the worst $2500 I've ever spent lol.

lol I know what you mean. I got the Dell Inspiron 9300 last year with 1.86ghz Pentium M, 1gb 533mhz ddr2 ram, 80gb 5400rpm harddrive, go6800 256mb. I upgraded myself afterwards to 2gb. All in all, it probably cost me $2500 canadian in the end. All that, a little overclocking of the video card to roughly 6800GT desktop card speed, and I get pretty good load times and pretty nice settings in Oblivion (the game i bought the system for) and most other games.

Nowadays you can get the 1.83ghz dualcore 9400 with a go7800 256mb for slightly less money. By the early next year, the 9500 with a go8800 will probably be out with the 64bit dualcore for slightly less money again

 

[MorpheusPrince]

This runs real smooth on all four of my Intel® CoreTM Duo Processor T2600 (2.16GHz, 2MB Cache, 667MHz FSB) laptops...Me and my friends play this game for hours on end.

 

[Mad Professor]

I think the critical issue is the hardware you have in the computer, not whether it's a laptop or not. I've only ever played Civ IV on a laptop and never had any problems with it at all. It's a fairly recent one though (less than a year old). Toshiba Tecra with ATI graphics. It has 1GB RAM, and 256MB video RAM, 2Ghz Pent M. I figure if you put hardware with the same power in a desktop, you should get the same results shouldn't you?

 

[proconsu|]

I have a XPS Gen 2 : pentium M 2.0, 512, 80gig HHD, 6800 ultra card.

The game runs completely lag free 99% of the time running at a high resolution, I think it is 1280 x 1024, or something along those lines.