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[mortichro]

Ok im running on 512mb on memory and 2.4ghz on speed. They say the least requirment for BTS is 512mb and now when ever i play bts.. and especially when leader window starts popping up it loads for like at least 3 damn minutes.. just fot a screen to pop up.. and almost everything is lagging.. i ty to maximized the pc's memory speed but still.. the same. im tired of playing bts if this continues..

u guys have any tip so my game will run smoothly?

 

[Cato the Elder]

Playing smaller maps is the only thing that works for me. Don't go above standard (and with the standard amount of civs) and you ought to be fine..

 

[Lord Neil]

In the options you can turn off options that make more pop-ups, lower graphics, and maybe use the option to minimize pop-ups until your done your turn.

 

[Lord Neil]

double post

 

[toft]

I guess its too easy to say a new computer but you should in many cases consider 512 mb memory as 0 because the OS takes a lot. So another 512 at least. What videocard do you have?

My old pc was a 2.4 mhz with 1 gb ram and fx5700le videocard... I could play warlords... but it wasnt pretty.

 

[Smidlee]

My old pc was a 2.4 mhz with 1 gb ram and fx5700le videocard... I could play warlords... but it wasnt pretty.

2.4 mhz. that is an old pc. I'm sure you meant 2.4ghz.

 

[toft]

2.4 mhz. that is an old pc. I'm sure you meant 2.4ghz.

Ah yea

 

[Dominico]

Get more memory, defrag your computer and make sure you have the latest patches. Its lagging when leaderheads come up caus its having to load them onto page file instead of grabbing them from memory. Mine used to lag like mad till i got the patch which seemed to improve it.

 

[Smidlee]

Ok im running on 512mb on memory and 2.4ghz on speed. They say the least requirment for BTS is 512mb and now when ever i play bts.. and especially when leader window starts popping up it loads for like at least 3 minutes..

If your hard drive is loading like mad ( I have no doubt it is) then more ram would help a lot. I would recommended adding another gig of ram if you want to play huge maps.

 

[PieceOfMind]

You need more memory without a doubt.

I've seen civ use 600MB of RAM on a fairly normal Large map game. I run with 1GB and I think I don't have enough. The OS of course uses up a few hundred alone as well so even 1GB is barely satisfactory. I plan to have 2GB before I'm satisfied.

 

[vilemerchant]

u guys have any tip so my game will run smoothly?

Get a new computer!

 

[DrewBledsoe]

Ok im running on 512mb on memory and 2.4ghz on speed. They say the least requirment for BTS is 512mb and now when ever i play bts.. and especially when leader window starts popping up it loads for like at least 3 damn minutes.. just fot a screen to pop up.. and almost everything is lagging.. i ty to maximized the pc's memory speed but still.. the same. im tired of playing bts if this continues..

u guys have any tip so my game will run smoothly?

You're computer is fine. All it needs is more RAM. An extra 1 gig would be excellent, but another 512M will make a very big difference. I have 2 gig, but on my normal huge maps, I STILL get gradual slowdown in the late game, after playing for 3-4 hours or more. To cure this, just save the game, quit back to desktop, give yourself a 5 min break ( the last not necessary but a good idea) and reload. And hey presto, the earlier slowdown is fixed....

Civ IV still has some memory allocation issues, though they are much, much better than they used to be...........

 

[vilemerchant]

Actually Drew is probably right (unless you have a crappy graphics card in which case you need to upgrade that too). I also have a 2.4ghz machine but with 1gb of RAM and the game is basically fine, and I always play large maps with a couple of tables of internet poker going at the same time

Like Drew says, if it does start slowing down a restart of the application will cure it. Some other ideas for us technologically challenged users:

Start from a fresh reboot.
Make sure your computer is not loading heaps of useless crap applications in the background on startup that are taking up memory for no reason. Anything to do with quicktime, itunes, winamp, msn, it's all taking up memory. Better just to load these aps when you actually need them then to have them or anything to do with them (and other crap programs) loading into your systray on startup.

Very important: make sure your C drive has plenty of free space on it. If it's packed full your whole computer will run like a turd.

 

[toft]

Actually Drew is probably right (unless you have a crappy graphics card in which case you need to upgrade that too). I also have a 2.4ghz machine but with 1gb of RAM and the game is basically fine, and I always play large maps with a couple of tables of internet poker going at the same time

Like Drew says, if it does start slowing down a restart of the application will cure it. Some other ideas for us technologically challenged users:

Start from a fresh reboot.
Make sure your computer is not loading heaps of useless crap applications in the background on startup that are taking up memory for no reason. Anything to do with quicktime, itunes, winamp, msn, it's all taking up memory. Better just to load these aps when you actually need them then to have them or anything to do with them (and other crap programs) loading into your systray on startup.

Very important: make sure your C drive has plenty of free space on it. If it's packed full your whole computer will run like a turd.

With a 2.4ghz he is probably still stuck with AGP... and then its a flood of new hardware he needs, if he wants to upgrade instead of putting a bandage on a corpse...

 

[CivDude86]

Could be a 2.4GHZ Core2Quad. OEMs love putting in fast processors in crappy systems.

 

[DrewBledsoe]

With a 2.4ghz he is probably still stuck with AGP... and then its a flood of new hardware he needs, if he wants to upgrade instead of putting a bandage on a corpse...

True, but gpu capabilities really aren't that important to play Civ adequately. The problems the op stated are almost certainly just down to RAM.

 

[toft]

True, but gpu capabilities really aren't that important to play Civ adequately. The problems the op stated are almost certainly just down to RAM.

Im just saying that you sometimes get more for your money, when buying all new stuff, instead of continuing to upgrade small seperate parts.

 

[DrewBledsoe]

Im just saying that you sometimes get more for your money, when buying all new stuff, instead of continuing to upgrade small seperate parts.

Oh I agree again....maybe if the OP has a friend who's willing to help, he could borrow a 512mb stick of RAM, stick it in his machine, fire up the game, and see the difference it makes. If its the difference he wants, then go and buy a 512 stick himself..cost effective if so

 

[toft]

Oh I agree again....maybe if the OP has a friend who's willing to help, he could borrow a 512mb stick of RAM, stick it in his machine, fire up the game, and see the difference it makes. If its the difference he wants, then go and buy a 512 stick himself..cost effective if so

Best advise so far IMHO.

 

[bonafide11]

I used to play Civ Vanilla with only 512mb of Ram and it was way too slow and it crashed all the time. I bought an additional 512mb of Ram before Warlords came out and it helped out a lot, Civ never crashed anymore but it still lagged some between turns (my machine had some other problems with it though, it was a laptop and a bit outdated). For BTS, I got a new desktop with 3gb of Ram and lots of other nice features and now lag in Civ is only a distant memory!