Recommended System Requirements for DOC?

[only sky]

Hello!

Is there a Recommended System Requirements list for DOC 1.12?

it is very unpleasant that in the industrial era and mordern era in DOC game, every turn needs 10 seconds + to be processed, I heard the cpu is the key but what kind of cpu?

I plan to upgrade my PC to play doc 1.12, my plan is to upgrade my pc so the time of processing turns will be reduced to less than 8 seconds in later eras.

Thank you!

 

[citis]

*Windows 7 (I don't know about 8).
*a tone of GHz (the more the less wait time)
*a modern RAM should be enough
*a modern disk should be enough
*no special display card required.
*if Leoreth incorporates multithreading in the future multiple cores will help too

 

[Eric Cartmenez]

DoC and Windows 8.1 works well for me.

 

[Leoreth]

if Leoreth incorporates multithreading in the future multiple cores will help too

Don't count on it.

 

[only sky]

*Windows 7 (I don't know about 8).
*a tone of GHz (the more the less wait time)
*a modern RAM should be enough
*a modern disk should be enough
*no special display card required.
*if Leoreth incorporates multithreading in the future multiple cores will help too

Then what 's the cpu with quite high GHZ? will AMD A4-7300 be good enough? it has 3.8GHz

 

[Novicenoble]

Civ4 itself uses only one core of CPU :/

 

[citis]

Then what 's the cpu with quite high GHZ? will AMD A4-7300 be good enough? it has 3.8GHz

I don't know. Mine has 2.2 and I wait about 3 minutes per turn in late game. But definately, Ghz is the most important feature. It indicates how fast a core runs the program. Since DoC runs in a single core it requires the fastest core possible.

Rethinking the cores, having a second core might help a little too. Windows, firefox etc. run in the one core and DoC in the other. More cores won't.

 

[Leoreth]

For multi-core CPUs, you need to consider the clock rate of a single processor, not the total clock rate they are usually advertised with.

 

[calad]

Even with new computer is takes a long time to load Canada or other late date civs. Thats why they are rarely played.

 

[agentxorange]

Civilization is very CPU intensive, mostly because the amount of calculations that must be done each turn. Getting an unlocked processor can be very helpful, since you can overclock it, which decreases the processor lifespan but does increase performance significantly.

It would be helpful if you post your current specs, and specify which you are planning to upgrade.

Edit: Also, play on the SVN version, not 1.12! There are so many changes that almost feel essential at this point (new culture mechanics, civ overhauls, new civs, specialist changes, etc).

 

[great.taurus]

As others have said, Civ4 performance doesn't improve much with newer PC's. You just have to live with slow turn times.