Radeon 7500 or comparable 32 MB Graphics cards?

[DrEvil1996]

Ok, I have a Radeon 7500. It supports T & L, but I have seen different people say different things about the requirements.

I ran the sr test, which told me I have ALL minimum requirements and all recommended requirements except a 64 MB graphics card.

Now, all I can find is that the minimum requirement is 32 MB but I saw a post somewhere on this forum that said it was changed to 64 MB.

SO, I pose the question: has anyone tried their luck with either the Radeon 7500 or a different 32 MB graphics card, and if so what are the results?

I have 512 ram, 2.4 GHZ Pentium 4, and run XP on my laptop (giving me no graphics card improvement opportunities). I simply want to know if I should even try to get the game right now or just wait.

Thanks.

 

[Iolum]

Just look at the thread which lists the problems ATI users are having lol. Even if it can run with 32mb, which is very low i might add, you have a very high probability of runing into the renderer bug.

 

[bugmenot17]

Here, read my second post:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=133039

Your main problems are (low) RAM and of course the video card.

 

[DrEvil1996]

Well, the 512 RAM shouldn't be a problem should it? I thought that was plenty.

I still don't have an answer about the video card because I can't find anyone that has tried it on the 7500. 32 MB is supposed to be the minimum, but who knows with the way things have gone today.

 

[bugmenot17]

Well, the 512 RAM shouldn't be a problem should it? I thought that was plenty.

It shouldn't be a problem per se, but it's not plenty either. You only have the recommended amount, and that's less than a minimum in the real world.

 

[DrEvil1996]

ok, I found another thread to at least help me out.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=3217428&posted=1#post3217428

 

[yasic]

I got a radeon 7500 with 64k. it does not work for me...