Raggamuffin
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For those of you who have played both Railroads and Civ4 how do you the compare in performance? I can barely play Civ4 on my p4 1.7. Will I experience the same sluggishness in this game?
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The system requirement : High on memory, moderate on graphics and CPU.
I played this on my 2-year old machine, and it run quite well..
SPEC : 3.0GHz intel pentium 4 CPU, 1G Byte RAM, fast SATA HDD.
VGA: 1.5 year old Nvidia 6600 128MB RAM.
It is perfectly enjoyable and playable with my machine in quite high to mid graphics settings (1280 *1024, no AA)
In this setting, the game run very smoothly without noticeable slow down or jerkiness except few moments.
Even in the highest grahics setting (1280*1024, AA * 4), this game is playable with little sluggishness when scrolling.
But I noticed that the game consumes nealy 700 MB+ of RAM when playing.
So I strongly recommand 1G RAM or more.
My verdict is that if you have 1G RAM, and mid-level CPU/VGA, it will work fine.
I played this on my 2-year old machine, and it run quite well..
SPEC : 3.0GHz intel pentium 4 CPU, 1G Byte RAM, fast SATA HDD.
VGA: 1.5 year old Nvidia 6600 128MB RAM.
It is perfectly enjoyable and playable with my machine in quite high to mid graphics settings (1280 *1024, no AA)
In this setting, the game run very smoothly without noticeable slow down or jerkiness except few moments.
Even in the highest grahics setting (1280*1024, AA * 4), this game is playable with little sluggishness when scrolling.
But I noticed that the game consumes nealy 700 MB+ of RAM when playing.
So I strongly recommand 1G RAM or more.
My verdict is that if you have 1G RAM, and mid-level CPU/VGA, it will work fine.
Raggamuffin
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Thanks for the responses.
Hmm, with the track record of Civ4 I think I will wait until I get better specs. With my P4 1.7, 1GB RAM and a lousy GF5500 I'm on the edge.
Hmm, with the track record of Civ4 I think I will wait until I get better specs. With my P4 1.7, 1GB RAM and a lousy GF5500 I'm on the edge.
Raggamuffin
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I just wanted to let you know (there might be people with similar specs out there) that I went out and bought it anyway. And to my big surprise it performs pretty okay. Much better than Civ4. The settings are the lowest possible of course.
Fun game!
Fun game!
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I have a 1.7 GHz Pentium IV with 1 GB of RAM and a GeForce 5700 LE Optima 128 MB Graphics card. Sid Meier's Railroads! runs on it using the default settings that I assume were selected when I installed the game. It does crash from time to time, but I think that may be due to the need for a patch.
One thing I did find out was not to change the settings. I had to delete the .ini files to get the game to run again.
One thing I did find out was not to change the settings. I had to delete the .ini files to get the game to run again.
I ordered a new vid card today, it doesn't run so well for me.
Got a AMD X2 3800+, 1Gig mem, Radeon 9800 Pro. The Pro was long overdue for replacement and the game pretty much falls apart when you're half way through. I suspect that with the 7900GS TOP I ordered, the game will run very smooth indeed.
But... Civ 4 ran great for me and it's basically the same engine. I had expect it to perform much better.
Got a AMD X2 3800+, 1Gig mem, Radeon 9800 Pro. The Pro was long overdue for replacement and the game pretty much falls apart when you're half way through. I suspect that with the 7900GS TOP I ordered, the game will run very smooth indeed.
But... Civ 4 ran great for me and it's basically the same engine. I had expect it to perform much better.
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