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fishlore said:
1. Does the game work for you, yes or no? If no, state where you're at with it and what you've done so far.
Yes

fishlore said:
2. Does the performance meet your expectations, why or why not?
Yes, for no particular reason

fishlore said:
3. Did you buy or build your computer and when did you do that?
Built a few years ago

fishlore said:
4. What are your specs and when was the last time you updated your drivers?
3GHz, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9700 Pro, SB Audigy2 ZS, 7.1 speakers. Updated drivers just before installing the game.

fishlore said:
5. What kinds of games are your favorite and how often do you play them?
I like First Person Shooters and Interactive Fiction (and older RPGs). Can't play as often as I'd like. I have entire collections of games (as in I, II, III, etc) I've never had time to play.
 
1. Does the game work for you, yes or no? If no, state where you're at with it and what you've done so far.

Yes works perfectly.


2. Does the performance meet your expectations, why or why not?

Yes - running it at 1920x1440.

3. Did you buy or build your computer and when did you do that?


No, bought it from Alienware. May 2005

4. What are your specs and when was the last time you updated your drivers?

AMD fx55 64 bit
2gb pc3200
Nvidia 6800 ultra SLI (2 x 256mb)

I only updated Nvidia drivers (81.85)

5. What kinds of games are your favorite and how often do you play them?

Civ4, WoW and Empire Earth 2 - A lot of time!
 
1. No. Works until modern era, but at the outbreak of any war the game is unplayable. Replaced video card to 128 MB GeForce 6200. Upgraded from 256MB Ram to 768 Ram, then to 1 GB ram. Updated to latest driver, 8.1.-something and my entire system crashed. Rolled back and still get crashes. If the games are unfinishable then the game doesn't work, no matter what age I get to. If I can't finish a game then it's pointless.

2. No - the performance is not good at all.

3. Bought from Dell in 2003.

4. P4 2.4 GHz
1 GB Ram
Nvidia 6200 w/ 128 MB

5. Strategy
 
1. Yes

2. Yes

3. Build, Summer 2005

4. Athlon64 2GHz, 512Mb RAM, ATI Radeon X300 128Mb. Drivers updated a month ago - Catalyst 5.10

5. Strategy - Imperial Glory, SimCity 4 amongst others
 
fishlore said:
1. Does the game work for you, yes or no? If no, state where you're at with it and what you've done so far.

Yes

fishlore said:
2. Does the performance meet your expectations, why or why not?

Yes, until I hit the middle part of a game on a gigantic map.

fishlore said:
3. Did you buy or build your computer and when did you do that?

Built it just over a year ago.

fishlore said:
4. What are your specs and when was the last time you updated your drivers?

Athlon64 3400+
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe
GeForce 6800 Ultra
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR400 RAM
WD 80GB 7,200rpm IDE HDD
Creative SB Audigy 2
Windows XP (SP2)

I check for driver updates for everything on a weekly basis.

fishlore said:
5. What kinds of games are your favorite and how often do you play them?

FPS (always), Racing sims (sometimes), & Civ4.
 
1. Does the game work for you, yes or no? If no, state where you're at with it and what you've done so far.
On whatever map has 6 players up until the middle ages. But is still laggy, but technically it is playable if you find going at a frickin' snail's pace for the next turn button to red thrilling. By the later game, if I quit and reload I will get one merely laggy turn. But after that, I end up yelling at the screen and hitting things it is so damn slow. It really doesn't work!

2. Does the performance meet your expectations, why or why not?
No, it is torture to play and the game itself, regardless of crappy graphics and hideous bugs, sucks.

3. Did you buy or build your computer and when did you do that?
I bought about a year and a half ago, however it was a top of the line machine then and since then I have upgraded it with triple the memory and the best video card I could buy.

4. What are your specs and when was the last time you updated your drivers?
My computer far and away surpasses the recommended settings, but I'm not sure of my exact specs.

5. What kinds of games are your favorite and how often do you play them?
I actually don't play many games. I like The Sims 2, and at the highest graphics settings (and the graphics are so superior to the Gamebryo engine of Civ IV) it runs at lightning speed. Other than that I guess I play video games and a few of the older Medal of Honor games on my computer (the newest computer one, Pacific Assault, while a crappy game, at the highest settings also with superior graphics to Civ IV runs at lightning speed). I only play a game of some kind about 4 times a week, but usually only for an hour or two in an ongoing game (such as Zelda or The Sims), only more if the game is brand new. So Civ IV sucks features-wise and is hellish torture when playing the game.
 
1. Yes, played entire games and multiplayer. Scenarios (at least the tutorial) and world builder also work.

2. Yes, there is minor minor slowdown (< one second) when I switch to globe in the later ages.

3. I bought the base of my computer 3 years ago and added new hardware from friends and family's presents (I told them what to get me for my birthday ;))

4. Mid range specs with the latest DirectX and Drivers (had to download them for Civ4). 2600+, ATI 9600, 768megs of RAM.

5. I can play higher end games (HL2, BF2, AoE3), but F.E.A.R. will probably bump me down to low settings.
 
fishlore said:
I was just hoping to get some information from everyone.

1. Does the game work for you, yes or no? If no, state where you're at with it and what you've done so far.
Yes it works. Huge maps are a problem, though. The game will eventually load them, but they play sluggishly, sometimes crashing. Haven't exactly played these a lot, as I returned to play on normal maps after finding out they didn't work so well. The game will have slight updating glitches when scrolling the map, and zooming in/out to/from total view, even on other map sizes, such as small or tiny. The globe view, while it works beautifully, seems to demand quite a lot of system power.

2. Does the performance meet your expectations, why or why not?
No. I expected my computer to run the game smoothly and able to use everything in the package, since my computer is almost new. It does to a large degree, and is very playable, but the game clearly isn't as solidly running as I expected.

The game repeatedly makes my computer (harddrive) run cracy, and noisy as hell, so its almost unbearable. I've never experienced this behaviour with other games. This can't be healthy, to my system, nor my playing environment. I have to turn the game volume up quite a bit to ignore the noise.

3. Did you buy or build your computer and when did you do that?
It's an Acer Aspire, and I bought it this summer.

4. What are your specs and when was the last time you updated your drivers?
P4 3,4ghz, with 1 gb RAM, 200gb disk space, Nvidia GeForce FX6600 video card with 512kb RAM. I updated my video drivers last week, which seemed to make the game able to load huge maps (before this I had problems), but doesn't run the game significantly better.

5. What kinds of games are your favorite and how often do you play them?
Last game I played was Medal of Honor, which was I played pretty intensively. Other than that I stick to Civ2. I also have Europa Universalis, Age of Kings and Civ3, and these games runs without any performance issues on my system.

Civ IV is certainly playable and very enjoyable. What bothers me the most is the strange behaviour of my computer/harddrives heating up and being so noisy during the game. Especially so, as I have a high performance system, perfectly capable of video editing and such (which I use it for).
 
Yes works fine

built myself, P4 2ghz 768ram Geforce 6800GT 256megs Drivers updated with in the last month.


NO PATCH is going to make it run well on a 1.6ghz computer with 256ram and 64meg video card
 
1. Does the game work for you, yes or no? If no, state where you're at with it and what you've done so far.
* No. Started with the rendering issue, resolved that with the steps provided in CFC's Tech Support. Required the Unpak too. Completed a defragment after all changes, and then was able to play Civ 4 for a while, before I froze up again. CPU was using obscene amounts of memory (98-100%) I noticed in the task manager before I shut the process down, and did a restart. Game continues to lock-up and freeze on me. No spyware, no viruses, and complete scan at pcpitstop shows no issues. Only essential processes running in the background.

2. Does the performance meet your expectations, why or why not?
* When Civ 4 did play, those few turns were a hoot! My Call of Duty 2 graphics framerate is 70-90 FPS, have not been able to test Civ 4 due to mentioned problems, and when it did work, I was honestly "in my happy place". No time for testing when I had things to build and armies to smite.

3. Did you buy or build your computer and when did you do that?
*Built, original buy was in spring 2004, recently upgraded my video card from 9600SE to X800XL, added another Gig of Ram.

4. What are your specs and when was the last time you updated your drivers?
* AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.84 GHz, 2 Gig's RAM, X800XL, Windows XP SP2. Current Drivers (5.11) but have attempted 5.10 and 4.12 display drivers as well. Use a driver cleaner tool after driver removal. Tried Omega drivers as well, they worked for a while but again had a lock-up.


5. What kinds of games are your favorite and how often do you play them?
* (Currently playing): Call of Duty 2, X3, Rome Total War, Silent Hunter III, Black & White 2. Have played all other Civilization products, will play Civ 4 once it is patched and I can get it working. Play CoD2 almost every day.
 
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