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).