So, my computer was working just fine until I installed the game (on Win2k). After that, if I listen to MP3s while downloading anything, the sound starts stuttering and the machine gets choppy even without the music (but that was the easiest to notice). Could this be because of the special DirectX I had to install? This really sucks. After playing the game and quitting, the computer works really slow for a while. Anyway, the only major thing I did before noticing these problems was installing DirectX and Civilization, so that would seem to be the cause. Anyone else noticed this?
Poor performance after installing Civ4
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MrCynical
Deity
My computer will always have to be restarted to run at a respectable speed after I've been playing Civ 4, but this has always been the case for me when running any game which had high resource requirements. I haven't noticed any problems with anything else though. Civ uses DirectX 9.0c or something similar, so it's not impossible this could affect some machines badly. Do you know what DirectX you were on before?
Is cos your hard drive is swapping. Thats why mp3 sounds bad and slow cp...you have to wait hard empies its page file, or restart computer. Just wacth your hard drive and you see its swapping like hell. I have said it before, and say again, this game is going to destroy peoples hard drives.
lifeaquatic
Conquistadore
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That sounds like a bunch of superstitous reterict to me. Not to mention your post is full of spelling mistakes. Its not going to destroy anyones hardrive. Thats just silly.
12ozProphets
Chieftain
I agree, but a disk defrag couldn't hurt...
yeah, many spelling errors, sorry, just woked up and typing sand in my woodeneye. But the thing is that when you play civ, you usually play long sessions, some might play 24 hours a day....and if your hard drive is constantly swapping real much, it must effect its life/condition. So those who play much civ4, I except in half year here are many people who have bad drives. Unless ofcourse patch comes out and fix it...
oldStatesman
Cybernaut
Constant use of the drive will affect it's life span. HDD's are mechanical devices, and with use they wear out...the more it is used, the faster it wears out. Just like a car...the more miles it is driven, the more it wears down.lifeaquatic said:
The game per se will not directly destroy the drive, but if it is using it all the time, of coarse the drive will wear out faster.
On Edit: That is why I will sometimes use an 'old' 4GB HDD for a dedicated swap file when building custom pc's for specialized application usage...the drives that size are now a dime a dozen, and if I have an application that must use the swap file intensively, I make sure that that is the only thing on the drive so when it dies I will not lose any data....
oldStatesman
Cybernaut
Civ 4 has a memory bug...see this thread, posts #122 and #123 summarize.KeljuIvan said:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=137706
Because it affects memory address space, you may have issues after running and stopping the game until the memory space can be properly cleaned...a reboot should resolve this.
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