Reduce Video settings

[acello]

New to Civ4, play a lot yet when I add mods from the website the error message appears reduce video memory settings. I have 232 mb of video memory. Any suggestions?

Moderator Action: Moved from Civ4 GOTM forum. I think this is a more appropriate place

 

[Zydor]

Please post your dxdiag file as an attachment using the 'go advanced' button below

What mods were you loading and what was the error message?

Regards
Zy

 

[acello]

Here is my dxdiag. Was playing the "Fall from Heaven mod" also the "EE3" MOd.

The error message says " Fatal Error"
"Your system has run out of video memory. Please trying reducing your video settings. File:\main\civilization4.bak\skds\gamebryo2_0\corellibs\nidx9renderer\nidx9renderedtexturedata.cpp,line:167."

 

[Zydor]

The error message is coming because its an on board graphics chip. The later Intel Express 945 will run because it has its own dedicated RAM, as well as using main system RAM. It does not have a dedicated Graphics Processing Unit aka a video card, so on 3D games its going to work very hard to process 3D games - it was built primarily for the business market - albeit that makes it ok for standard home users

The express series sends it data down the PCI-e bus for the cpu to crunch, no dedicated videoprocessor - as such. Its likely the Mods tipped it over the edge re the additional work - the 910 will be marginalin capacity terms

I would ask Firaxis if this one will run, because we have seen some 915 Express chips run it, slowly but just (they have 32Mb dedicated video RAM) many 915s still have problems, the 945s definitely do run. But I have a feeling the 910 will not, but you need to check with Firaxis.

Grateful you post their answer - would love to know myself from an interest viewpoint. Dont raise hopes, suspect they will give a fague / avoiding reply or a straight no. Have a feeling its a card upgrade

Regards
Zy

 

[acello]

Thanks for getting back to me, I'll just have to get a better gaming video card.
Civ4 rules!

 

[Zydor]

Ask Firaxis re the 910s first as mentioned above. The 945s work, but its not clear that the 910s have the power to do so, if Firaxis are happy with the 910 - well then you got a decision to make.

Regards
Zy

 

[Akhenaton]

Ask Firaxis re the 910s first as mentioned above. The 945s work, but its not clear that the 910s have the power to do so, if Firaxis are happy with the 910 - well then you got a decision to make.

910GL which has the same GMA 900 core as 915G meets the spec for texel fill rate. Besides, isn't he running the game without mods properly?

Maybe the mod just requires 256MB of video RAM or is buggy otherwise. I'm also quite suspicious of the 224MB video RAM figure reported by DxDiag, because according to Intel 128MB is the highest amount supported for 910GL. UMA accessable memory in excess of that must be some Sony hack, which many not have such a great driver support.