What are you running it on/what is the performance of the game

[distrukt]

AMD Athlon 3000+

1 gig of DDR 400 SD RAM

Ge force fx 5200 128 meg.

Terrible gameplay, major lag, very low FPS. Occasional crashing.

 

[asmodee]

I would like to precise something before everyone post their specs. I tried the game on 2 computers, one was a laptop, the other is a pc. The pc was older and was less performing than the laptop. But, the game was running 10 times better on the pc than on the laptop, so this means the requirements on the box are not off, it just means the game is bugged.

 

[Scarecrow1]

Hi, first post here.

I'm running a P4 3.4, 512 RAM, Radeon x300 128mb, SB Audigy 2ZS, running game through a LiteOn DVD burner (the Phillips dvd burner wouldn't work, but then again, no game I own will work with that factory installed POS. Every game I've tried to install into that drive has a security issue....literally, like 25 games and not one will play from it.).

Game runs exceptional with all settings cranked, only laggyness I get is about game year 1950ish...but that's playing a game straight through with no save/reload. I usually play standard-huge with anywhere between 25-50 cities (I'm not an expander.. ) I can only chalk up good performance to the fact that I have virtually nothing running on this computer other than whatever game I'm playing (which has been mostly Civ4 as of late).

 

[solorei]

......Well

Athlon 3000+ (939)
MSI K8-NEO 4 F
1 GB DDR 400 Super Talent
300 GB SATA-1 Hard Drive
X800 GT from Powercolor (256MB)

Now, from some of the problems with hardware that Ive seen, a lot of it has to do with bottlenecks all over the place, from the Graphics Card to the Speed of the memory. So, Im thinking that the PCI-e X800 with the updated Cat. Drivers and the fix from the gurus at Fraxis should solve that problem. My next concern was my pick for processor, but after some thinking and hypthetical overclocking, if I can bring that from a 1.8Ghz clock to a 2.ish clock, then I should be fine for some late game play (Cold War style). Another concern was the size of the memory. Even though the minimum requirements said 256 MB of RAM was fine, Im guessing thats OK if you are planning to only have one other civ, a world with 9 tiles and only one city. The sweet spot sounds like a Gig, and coupled with a SATA hard drive, I shant have any bottle necks there.

So, my question to you, the not so proud owners of Civ 4, has/will work(ed) before. If not, please give me some advice. I dont want to buy a game where I cant enjoy turning my opponent Civ into Nuclear toast . It would suck if turns were giving me flash backs of when I had Civ 3, and was waiting 8-16 minutes for it to change to Feb 1988 to April 1988.

Contact-
AIM: solorei
Email: solorei@gmail.com

 

[GreenMonkey]

Gigabyte K8N PRO - nforce3 150 socket 754 - motherboard
A64 2800+
MSI RX9800PRO (basically a 128MB 9800xt)
1GB (2x512MB) Corsair Value Select RAM
Antec 350w TruPower power supply

Fairly recent drivers

running 1280x960 highest detail..and either 2x or 4x AA

Lag only on huge maps, after a few hours of play

 

[Bast]

My new computer:

AMD Athlon 3200+
1GB Ram
256 MB GeForce 6800

No problems so far.

 

[Doppleganger]

AMD A64 3000+ at 2.6Ghz (FX-55 speed)
Geforce 7800GTX @ 490/1300
1 Gig of Ram

Playing with everything turned on and performance is fine. Only issues I have is that at the end of the game it can take a while to load when playing on a huge map. There can be a little stutter at this time too.

I did have a couple of issues when loading a saved game, where I used to crash to desktop as soon as the saved game was loaded. I noticed I had a browser open when this happened and closing down the browser solved my crashing problems.

 

[MrCynical]

Dell Inspiron 5160
P4 2.8Ghz
512Mb RAM
Geforce FX 5200

Gameplay is somewhat laggy, but the game is still playable even on large maps. Wonder movies are mostly OK, but do stutter a bit if the game has been running for 3 or 4 hours. No crashes or similar problems at all.

 

[The Baron]

I've experienced this on four computers. Performance as follows

Athlon XP 2100
GeForce 4 Ti 440
Latest Forceware
512MB Ram
Unusally low framerate (considering the other systems), of the order of 3 fps. No crashes. No stuttering movies.

Athlon XP 2000
GeForce 4 MX
Latest Forceware
512MB Ram
Double Bread bug. Odd glitch where Flood Plains are drawn through the fog of war, leading to an slight advantage. One crash after several hours play. Decent framerate. Game oddly complains that the specs of the computer are too low. Stuttering Movies (codec problem?). Decent frame rate and playable however.

P4 2Ghz
Radeon Mobility M6P
Latest Omega Drivers
512MB Ram
Double Bread Bug. Cheshire cat/Black land bug - no workaround worked. Game seems fine otherwise after some play with fog of war removed. Decent frame rate. Stuttering Movies (codec problem?). Would be playable if the black land is fixed. (Note: Graphics card does support T&L, but not Pixel Shader)

Athlon XP 2400
Radeon 9600
Omega Drivers
512MB Ram
Game runs fine. Good frame rate. Occasional Stuttering Movies (codec problem?)

 

[bl4cklight]

AMD64 3500+
2Gb RAM
BFG 6800GT with latest forceware drivers
Win XP Pro

Running #1. No critical bug so far.

Had a an occasional 5-second pause with older drivers (7X); but thats a known nforce3/GF6800 bug with some directX games; the newer forceware did the trick. That's not directly related to civ4; but this game was afflicted.

 

[Artagel]

Pentium 4 2.66 Gig
512 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 4 440 MX 64 MB
Win XP Pro

With some tweaks found in Neo27's thread in Tech Support forum, game is running better. Initially lots of lags, hangs, and CTD's as well as stuttering sound for Intro movie, new world loading screen, and occasional wonder movies.

 

[Chuck Dissident]

AXP 2800+ (stock)

2 gig ram

6800nu

Game runs ok.. then slows down as it goes on.

crashes occasionally i'd say once a session, about once an hour.

no other issues bar crash.

 

[parachute4u]

PCChips M810DLU mainboard (crap)
Duron 1,3 Mhz
Radeon 9200SE PCI
Terratec DMX 6fire
768MB Ram
Win2K
CAtalyst 5.10a Omega

Crappy computer, but able to run normal size maps.
Starts to lag badly after AD 1700. But playable.