What are you running Civ V on and how well does it work?

[cosminerul]

i7 920 running at stock freq
Geforce 295 gtx running at stock freq
3 GB RAM
Win XP 32 sp 3
playing the Demo

cannot make it run in dx10/11 mode - game crashes after the 'loading' message
can run in dx9 mode, but it will not allow me to change several video options like AA - in this mode it runs pretty fast
also if i scale up the other video parameters (textures, etc) - obviously with a 295 gtx it shouldn't be a problem to run everything on the max settings available - game crashes after the 'loading' message

 

[stealth_nsk]

Win XP 32 sp 3
playing the Demo

cannot make it run in dx10/11 mode

XP has only DX9

 

[AntiLegend]

AMD Phenom II X4 945
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
4GB RAM
Windows 7 64
Game installed on a OCZ Vertex2 SSD

Runs the game perfectly in DirectX 11, 1920x1080 with 8xMSAA and everything set to high.

 

[Wieke]

Amd phenom II x6 1055t 2.8 ghz
4 gb ram
AMD Radeon 5750 1gb
Windows 7 64

Ran the demo, everything on maximum (1920x1080 resolution) in dx10/11 mode, seemed to go fine. Slight slowdown in between turns (because the cpu prioritizes Ai at that point) wich seems to take 1-2 seconds.

 

[Keyser_Soze]

run demo on:
i7-860 4GB RAM
GeForce 8800GT (drivers from the day before yesterday).

on option DX10 & DX11
- varies 10-30 FPS on maxxed settings with AA x2
- when reduced some to medium/low looks just a bit smoother.

on option DX9
- absolutely fluent 40+ FPS on maxxed everything (no AA aveilable though)

ON all settings, A LOT OF visual artifacts (in DX9 there is more) - doesn't look like finished game. Very dissapointed here:
- I've seen red dots on arctic
- Disappearing textures (turning black) on dunes.
- Appearing random polygons.
- When loaded previously saved game there was totall mess with textures. desert turned into persian carpet.

Besides bugs:
- The textures seem to be low resolution even on highest settings. It is very annoying, units and building don't fit to terrain - Units and buildings are detailed, terrain is soft.
- river look like a crap. Flat blue thing (with a bit of white something when you zoom).
- roads looks poor. conflicts with terrain improvements. Example road running through pasteur into the SEA.
- didn't see any building or tree/plant animation. Only animals move. plains look flat. All this makes game look poor.

There is nothing in the game that couldn't be done in DX9.

I don't know what does "DX10 & DX11" mean for DX10 card that I have (there is no tasselation in DX10, but there is still tasselation option in Video options). Suspect that in such scenario game is runned in so called DX11on10.

By the way i still enjoyed the game. Only one thing that I didn't like is graphics quality (not even fluentness). I would give it optimistic 8/10 for what i have seen in demo.

Hope that helps.

-- edit --
OS: Win7 x64

 

[Horace]

I got an XPS1530 laptop.

T9300 C2D @2.5 ghz
Geforce 8600m GT
Win 7 32
4 Gig ram

Was running fine on pretty much all low settings on a huge map, full civs (dx9). Will see what I can push it up to over the next few days. Wont be much tho due to low spec

 

[VikingMaekel]

Intel C2D E6600 2.4Ghz
4GB RAM DDR2
ATI Radeon HD5770 1GB (My 8800Ultra fried itself a week ago)
Win 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

All settings on High, AA 4x, resolution 1600x1200
Running smoothly

 

[Alphard]

Dell Latitude D620
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Intel Core 2 Duo T7200E (2,0 GHz)
4 GB DDR2 (Not using all as I have 32 bit XP)
nVidia Quadro NVS 110M (256 MB)

I was worried the game would not run as it is just at minimum specs - I just have a tad more RAM. However the Demo runs ok at minimum specs. At least I can try the game out.

However the graphics are not that nice at the low settings. Some artifacts occasionally on screen but nothing that would really annoy. Fog of war is now white clouds but dark boxes.

I was planning to buy a new PC anyway soon but now I will probably postpone this for another month. So - Dell D620 can certainly run the game but its not something you probably want to do for a long time.

 

[Indibil]

Dell Studio 1557

i7 @1.6
4 Gigas Ram @1333
Mobility 4570 512 Megas

Running the Demo on Medium - High except FOW which is disabled. After work I'll try upping the resolution to something bigger as for the moment it runs smoooth. DX9 and DX10 modes tried and both run well.

I cannot wait for the 24th and get the full game unlocked

 

[cj7loop]

I'm runnning Civ 5 on my HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop.

Once I toggled the map to strategic (due to limited specs) I never turned back. I love that simplistic map.

 

[haddow64]

Running under DX11

intel i7 920
6GB DDR3
GTX 275
Win7 Pro

Having no issues with crashes but I am having the weird red dot problem.

 

[Robovski]

I have run the demo on a 4mhz Pentium 4 w/ a 7600GT and 3GB ram running XP home SP 3 32bit. It doesn't look anywhere as nice as on my main machine an i5 540 w/ 4gb ram and HD 5770 running Win7 Pro 64bit - that does high everything no problem.

 

[strhopper]

Oh come on you're just here to brag... the guy clearly wants to know what he can get that will let him run Civ V and you hit him with a custom built PC with a 3.8ghz processor and 6 gigs of RAM lol.

I'm guessing if he had the ability to buy/build a pc like that he wouldn't have asked us in the first place...

Mine is a custom built PC as well, And if he is like me putting this much money into this means it is one of our hobbies (building PC's)

So of course he is bragging, so was I!

Update: FYI I said I was dissappointed with the game after only playing for 45 mins, after I got past the short learning curve I must say this is the best CIV to date!!

 

[Cashew]

Mine is a custom built PC as well, And if he is like me putting this much money into this means it is one of our hobbies (building PC's)

So of course he is bragging, so was I!

Update: FYI I said I was dissappointed with the game after only playing for 45 mins, after I got past the short learning curve I must say this is the best CIV to date!!

The thing that kills me is you don't even NEED 4 gigs of ram much less 6 unless you want to be able to smoothly alt-tab between Civ, Word, and internet porn.

 

[Kruelgor]

Intel I7-875k 2.93Ghz quad-core
ATI 5830
4gb RAM

Runs smoothly and beautifully.
Typical AI turns for maximum players (largest map) takes 2 to 3 seconds.

 

[Achilleslastand]

AMD phenom 2x4 945
4 gigs ram
ATI 4850 512
Windows 7 64
Playing at a resolution of 1920x1200 with everything on high except shadows and AA at x4
Everything runs smooth.

 

[Carwyn]

Thanks... I want to report that the demo WILL run on my poor old machine:

Intel P4 3.08
4 GB RAM
Radeon X1600 512 MB
Windows XP PRO w/SP 3

Runs with DX 9, of course.

It's all on minimum and alt tabbing back and forth is a bit slow, but it does run, I can see things and do things - that's more than I expected and the most I'd hoped for. I'd like to learn how to play the darn thing while I save up for a real computer. I suspect that's about the minimum computer to get it to go.

 

[Seven05]

Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz
nVidia GTX 475 1.2GB (with latest WHQL cert drivers)
4GB RAM
Vista 64-bit Business Ed. (with no extra BS running)

Runs in DX11 1920x1080 everything on high, AA at 8x, very smooth in the game. Playing on a large map, 10 civs/20 city states the between turn time is quick 10-20 secs or so. No crashes, lock-ups, black screens or any other problems.

 

[May Day 10]

I got an XPS1530 laptop.

T9300 C2D @2.5 ghz
Geforce 8600m GT
Win 7 32
4 Gig ram

Was running fine on pretty much all low settings on a huge map, full civs (dx9). Will see what I can push it up to over the next few days. Wont be much tho due to low spec

Im pretty much the same, but with Vista.

Runs pretty choppy unless I go to DX9 and all LOW settings, and even then, it still seems a bit labored (and I havent even gotten to AD yet!)

 

[Rellin]

EVGA X58 SLI LE (141-BL-E757-TR)
Intel Core i7-930 Bloomfield 2.8GHz @ 4.0GHZ (20 x 200)
CoolerMaster V8 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
Mushkin Enhanced Redline 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600MHz (6-8-6-24-1T)
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (01G-P3-1370-TR) @ 850/1700/2000
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache
Samsung 18X DVD±R DVD Burner
Rosewill 550W ATX12V
Antec Twelve Hundred ATX Full Tower

I run Civ5 with every setting on max and it runs well.