Which laptops run Civ4?

[mrjepson]

I'm looking to buy a new laptop and want to make sure it runs civ 4. Could someone who has it working on a laptop let me know what they have?

 

[Aratirn]

DELL PRECISION M70 (P4-2.13-1Gb RAM)

Running without any problems, at full resolution and all eye candy on.

 

[vyapti]

Fujitsu N6000 Series.

17" widescreen, 3.2ghz processor, 128mb mobility 9700, 512mb ram. Runs beatifully. The new ones have 1.86ghz mobile processor (way better on battery life) and 256mb x600 video card.

It's expensive, but I love it. The only laptop I found with the 10-key on the keyboard.

 

[Juardis]

FWIW, my Dell Inspiron 9300 with the nVidia PCI Express 256 MB GO 6800 card, 512 MB DDR2 at 533 MHz, and 2.0 GHz Pentium M runs Civ 4 just fine. A couple stutters during the soundtrack of the great wonder movies, but all else seems fine.

 

[culdeus]

Dell d600 with a memory upgrade (512mb) works just fine.

 

[Meatlord]

Intel Celeron 1.86 w/ 512RAM Radeon Express X300 runs it fine, even over a WAN multiplayer.

 

[Bartleby]

I have a custom-built laptop; P4 3.8 GHz, 2 Gig Ram and NVidia Go 6800 Ultra, it seems to manage OK at 1920 x 1200 resolution.

 

[Mephistopeles]

Dell Precision M70 (Pentium M 2.0 GHz, 1024MB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400)

I'm running pretty full, there was some bugs (crash to desktop), but I fixed it by changing my CPU priority.

 

[Colossian]

Toshiba Satellite A70; Radeon 9100, 1280x800

 

[oldStatesman]

Reports are the new patch fixes the bug that caused a lot of laptops with intel cards to have issues. May want to wait for the official patch before deciding.

 

[The Fjonis]

FWIW, my Dell Inspiron 9300 with the nVidia PCI Express 256 MB GO 6800 card, 512 MB DDR2 at 533 MHz, and 2.0 GHz Pentium M runs Civ 4 just fine. A couple stutters during the soundtrack of the great wonder movies, but all else seems fine.

Ditto that. I have 1,86 GHz and 1 GB ram, but otherwise the same machine. Runs beautifully on full detail level, no glitches whatsoever.

Just a pity that I have no time to play Civ nowadays due to my upcoming exams.

I'll tell you, putting the Civ4 box away required some serious effort and self dicipline! I'm proud of myself!

 

[Juardis]

Ditto that. I have 1,86 GHz and 1 GB ram, but otherwise the same machine. Runs beautifully on full detail level, no glitches whatsoever.

I'll tell you, putting the Civ4 box away required some serious effort and self dicipline! I'm proud of myself!

Yeah, that first part is key. I'm running at 1920x1460 (or whatever the max resolution is), 4x Anti-aliasing, everything maxed out. Just gorgeous. And end game on a standard size map there was no noticable slow down. I'm now playing on a large world, so we'll see if there is any end game slowdown, but so far (1700 ad), no slowdowns.

And I wish I had your discipline.

 

[Rabbit_Alex]

Dell Inspirion 9100 (1 year old)
3.2 Ghz P4
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility 128 MB

It runs great with just a little slowdown in the later years.

 

[superj]

my new dell 6000 (1.73 mhz and 512 mb ram) runs it fine with the excpetion of huge maps.

 

[ClamBoy]

Toshiba M70 SR6
Pentium M 1.86 GHz
I Gig Ram
128 MB ATI x700 Video
15.4" widescreen

running full details at 1280x800...1500AD so far so smooth, epic and huge.
Only some recent slow down, but had other apps running then alt tabbed out of it and let it sit in the background for a while.

 

[haard]

FS LifeBook T 4010
Runs great with the new patch and BlueMarble mod

 

[heikole]

Dell Latitude D610 (Pentium M 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon X300)

Working fine at 1400x1050, no issues so far.

 

[Abegweit]

@Juardirs and TheFjonis.

I have the same computer except with the ATI X300 graphics card. Everything looks just gorgeous @1920x1200. Characters are a bit small for these old eyes, though.

I found the game intolerable with 512 Meg of RAM. I upgraded to 1.25 Gig and everything works just great! Except that I have the same problem with the Wonders movies.

 

[MNGhost]

Toshiba Satellite 2435-S255, 2.4 GHz Pent 4, 512 MB RAM, 32MB GeForce4 420 Go graphics card

Had to install some "unofficial" graphics drivers and the game runs pretty slow in the late game (all the movies are choppy and pretty much unwatcable as well). But it works!

 

[The Fjonis]

@Juardirs and TheFjonis.

I have the same computer except with the ATI X300 graphics card. Everything looks just gorgeous @1920x1200. Characters are a bit small for these old eyes, though.

I found the game intolerable with 512 Meg of RAM. I upgraded to 1.25 Gig and everything works just great! Except that I have the same problem with the Wonders movies.

I believe the wonder movie stuttering is a universal problem that is not caused by hardware, although I am not quite sure. At least I only have this problem with a few of the movies. And I also don't know if the new patch had dealt with this issue - I think I saw some mention of the wonder movies in the patch description.

Anyhow -- the withdrawal symptoms are really starting to kick in now. Will I manage to NOT play civ for another month due to my exams taking up all my time?? That is the question...

To be honest, one of the main reasons why I decided to buy a laptop rather than a desktop computer, was that I wanted to be able to bring my PC with me back home during the Christmas holiday to be able to play civ.