CivManiac1
Chieftain
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and how smooth would you say Civ 3 runs on it
What are your computer's specs?
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Vorlin
Chieftain
I'm running it on a P2-350, Win98, 192 megs ram, Voodoo3 graphics card, and a AudioPCI 64V sound card. The game runs just fine for Standard size maps, the longest wait I have between turns is about 10 seconds or so in the Modern Age with the map fully settled. I haven't tried any larger map yet since Standard is sized almost perfectly for me at this point.
I do have some game instability from the older hardware (neither Voodoo3 nor the soundcard were made with DirectX 8 in mind, with the Voodoo I'm using 3rd party drivers) but it's not major, about 1 crash every 15-20 hours of game play.
I do have some game instability from the older hardware (neither Voodoo3 nor the soundcard were made with DirectX 8 in mind, with the Voodoo I'm using 3rd party drivers) but it's not major, about 1 crash every 15-20 hours of game play.
Chris85
Emperor
Windows 98
700 mhz Celeron
96 MB RAM
20 GB Hard Drive
Direct-X 8.0
I am able to play Large maps with up to 12 civs just fine, but It goes too slow for Huge maps with 12+ civs. I have a crash every once in while, especially if I have played for a few hours.
700 mhz Celeron
96 MB RAM
20 GB Hard Drive
Direct-X 8.0
I am able to play Large maps with up to 12 civs just fine, but It goes too slow for Huge maps with 12+ civs. I have a crash every once in while, especially if I have played for a few hours.
New games load quickly and as far as I can remember, I've never had crash in Civ3.poprawkz
Chieftain
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ processor
256 megs PNY PC2700 DDR 2.0 CAS
40 Gig ATA 133 Maxtor <8.5ms seek
Soltek SL-75DRV4 Purple Ray edition Mb feat. KT266A chipset.
Voodoo5 5500 AGP 2x 64mb Video
AC'97 sound.
Windows XP 2002 Professional
And lemme tell you... its running like liquid silk. I've never experienced the computer taking a long time. *grins*
256 megs PNY PC2700 DDR 2.0 CAS
40 Gig ATA 133 Maxtor <8.5ms seek
Soltek SL-75DRV4 Purple Ray edition Mb feat. KT266A chipset.
Voodoo5 5500 AGP 2x 64mb Video
AC'97 sound.
Windows XP 2002 Professional
And lemme tell you... its running like liquid silk. I've never experienced the computer taking a long time. *grins*
ssmith619
Must...be...original...
Two:
Dell Inspiron 8000
900 MHz PIII
256 MB SDRAM
GeForce 2 Go!
Windows ME ::groan::
Dell Dimension 4100
1 GHz PIII
256 MB SDRAM
TNT2
Windows 2000 Professional
Perfectly fine on both with about a 10 sec. game loading time.
Dell Inspiron 8000
900 MHz PIII
256 MB SDRAM
GeForce 2 Go!
Windows ME ::groan::
Dell Dimension 4100
1 GHz PIII
256 MB SDRAM
TNT2
Windows 2000 Professional
Perfectly fine on both with about a 10 sec. game loading time.
Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
256 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 64 MB Video
Windows XP Professional
I always play on huge maps .. 16 opponents.
The longest wait I have had was about 5 - 10 seconds in the modern era waiting for all my 100 + captured workers to do their automation.
256 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 64 MB Video
Windows XP Professional
I always play on huge maps .. 16 opponents.
The longest wait I have had was about 5 - 10 seconds in the modern era waiting for all my 100 + captured workers to do their automation.
Michael York
On Sabatical from Civ
Dell lat. c800
1Ghz PIII
512MB
32MB G.C.
Windows 2000 Prof.
15" uxga (cant stand tiny monitors)
Virtually no trouble or crashes since 1.29
1Ghz PIII
512MB
32MB G.C.
Windows 2000 Prof.
15" uxga (cant stand tiny monitors)
Virtually no trouble or crashes since 1.29
Pillager
League of Empire Loyalist
PII 350, 128Mb, 16Mb Matrox Millenium G400 Dualhead, 19" Iiyama, XP Pro.
Civ III runs fine on standard map, 8 civs - max. 5-10 secs during Modern Era. Never had one crash under any patch. I play with all animations on, and there is no problem there.
Civ III runs fine on standard map, 8 civs - max. 5-10 secs during Modern Era. Never had one crash under any patch. I play with all animations on, and there is no problem there.
Amd Duron 800 - 192 Mb RAM - Radeon 32.
Game is smooth enough, and the interval between turns is tolerable on large maps - about 30 secs depending on what's going on.
I do get crashes on exit and when the game tries to change screen resolution. This was very frequent until I set the desktop res at 1024*768 instead of 800*600. Now I only get extremely rare ingame crashes , and I can live with it - maybe they will go away when I'll update the video drivers.
Game is smooth enough, and the interval between turns is tolerable on large maps - about 30 secs depending on what's going on.
I do get crashes on exit and when the game tries to change screen resolution. This was very frequent until I set the desktop res at 1024*768 instead of 800*600. Now I only get extremely rare ingame crashes , and I can live with it - maybe they will go away when I'll update the video drivers.
Lt. 'Killer' M.
Deity
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P3 1.2GHz
512 MB RAM
20 GB HD
Win XP
Laptop
just fine
512 MB RAM
20 GB HD
Win XP
Laptop
just fine
connor
Highlander
Athlon XP 1800
256 MB PC2100
ATI Expert 32 MB video
7200rpm spin 40 GB HD
Windows 2000 Prof.
Works great, but found that when I play huge maps with 16 civs, get about a minute in between turns during the industrial era. I think I might add another 256MB of ram.
256 MB PC2100
ATI Expert 32 MB video
7200rpm spin 40 GB HD
Windows 2000 Prof.
Works great, but found that when I play huge maps with 16 civs, get about a minute in between turns during the industrial era. I think I might add another 256MB of ram.
Gastric ReFlux
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600 Mhz Celeron, 192 Megs of RAM, !6 Meg ATI AGP video card.
Runs fine on standard sized maps which are to my liking since I spend so much time managing my city production and workers. If I started playing on larger maps the AI would start complaining how long they have to wait for me.
Runs fine on standard sized maps which are to my liking since I spend so much time managing my city production and workers. If I started playing on larger maps the AI would start complaining how long they have to wait for me.
-Tbird 1GHz,
-768MB Ram
-210GB Raid0-drives
-Geeforce2
All my latest games has been on huge maps with max players..
In my current game I have 250+ captured workers and more than 160 cities..
IT RUNS SOO INCREDIBLY SLOW!!
I'm talking minutes in turn-time and lots of load-time...
-768MB Ram
-210GB Raid0-drives
-Geeforce2
All my latest games has been on huge maps with max players..
In my current game I have 250+ captured workers and more than 160 cities..
IT RUNS SOO INCREDIBLY SLOW!!
I'm talking minutes in turn-time and lots of load-time...
DaDoo
Prince
PII 400
512mb RAM
40 GB HDD
GeForce2 w/ 64MB Video ram
Soundblaster Live!
Windows 2000
res at 1280x1024
Game runs smooth. No crashes. The changing of resolution bugs me to no end... Thank goodness for that keepres command
Always plays game on huge map with 16 civ. Game only bogs down when *EVERYBODY* is at war all at the same time. That'll make the wait between turns to be about 30sec-1 min. Tolerable for my standards.
512mb RAM
40 GB HDD
GeForce2 w/ 64MB Video ram
Soundblaster Live!
Windows 2000
res at 1280x1024
Game runs smooth. No crashes. The changing of resolution bugs me to no end... Thank goodness for that keepres command
Always plays game on huge map with 16 civ. Game only bogs down when *EVERYBODY* is at war all at the same time. That'll make the wait between turns to be about 30sec-1 min. Tolerable for my standards.
sabo
My Ancestors were Vikings
PII 366 Celeron
No 3d card
96 mg RAM
All I have played is large map with no more than 8 to 9 civs max, the game is too tedious with maps larger than that and it runs fine on my machine
No 3d card
96 mg RAM
All I have played is large map with no more than 8 to 9 civs max, the game is too tedious with maps larger than that and it runs fine on my machine
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