Which laptops run Civ4?

[gusten]

1.86 GHz Dothan Pentium M
1.3 GB RAM
128 MB shared Intel 915GM

I thoght I fullfilled the mimnimun spec buts ohhh nooo.
Newest drivers, defraged HD. No crap in background.

And
Unplayable game 1 FPS


Do somene else have the same config? how does it run on your computer...

 

[ranathari]

Gericom Hummer. It's three years old but it can still play loads of recent games and they look great too. Time to boot up Splinter Cell and go a-sneaking.

(edit): Civ4 runs fine on it, late-game slowdown was mostly solved by the patch but I tend to stick to smaller maps to minimise slowdown anyway. Movies were brilliant but I tweaked the .ini to speed up the game somewhat, with the side-effect that the movies are screwed now. I've turned them off altogether which gives a slight performance boost.

 

[alexchunha]

I recently downloaded the demo, and it's been playing splendidly. It's been playing so well that I've decided to buy the game. Does anyone know if it will run similarly well with the full game? Obviously, since the demo is limited to the early turns and a single map, it may not run as well during the later stages or on a larger map, but is there any reason why it shouldn't run just as well with the same game configurations?

 

[thinker2]

I have an IBM ThinkPad and the demo works on it for 5 mins, then shuts the computer down without an error message. See thread
here.

Alexchunha, what kind of laptop are you using?

 

[Andrew_Jay]

Played the demo, and the Inspiron 6000 with its integrated intel card works fine. I found the detail and framerate wasn't great in fights (but still not bad), but it zoomed in and out really smoothly.

All in all, it works fine.

 

[alexchunha]

Alexchunha, what kind of laptop are you using?

I have an HP Pavilion (don't remember what series) with a 1.6GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, and an Intel Graphics Accelerator (integrated graphics with shared memory). No Hardware T&L, but it runs quite well with the demo. Perhaps it might look better on my desktop at home (which has a pretty decent graphics card), but it's still impressive.

 

[thinker2]

Alexchunha, FYI: here is a thread where someone is complaining about not being able to run the full game on a machine where the demo works just fine. So I guess being able to run the demo doesn't mean anything.

 

[mrjepson]

Thanks for the input everyone! I bought a Dell Inspiron 9300 with the nVidia PCI Express 256 MB GO 6800 card, 1 GB RAM. Its on a good promo right now if anyone else is thinking about it. Just in time to take civ home for the holidays!

 

[The Fjonis]

mrjepson -- that was a good choice, congratulations on your purchase! Enjoy your holiday - I know I will! Keep civving!

 

[mmoretal]

No problems on a >1 year old IBM T41 (P-M 1.6 GHz, 1GB, 64MB Radeon 9000).

 

[High_Elf_Lord-M]

oh i wish i had a laptop to play civ on, the bailtiy to lie in bed and play it without breaking my back at the comp ahhhh >runs to the shop for a laptop

 

[Abegweit]

Thanks for the input everyone! I bought a Dell Inspiron 9300 with the nVidia PCI Express 256 MB GO 6800 card, 1 GB RAM. Its on a good promo right now if anyone else is thinking about it. Just in time to take civ home for the holidays!

Merry Christmas!

 

[Black Thirteen]

I'm running CivIV just fine on my 6 month old Acer Aspire 1363. Specs are as follows:

AMD Mobile Sempron 3000+ (1,8 GHz)
768 RAM
NVidia 5200 Go w/ 64 Mb discrete memory (Forceware 77.70)

Playing at 1280*800 with high details, no probs. I usually overclock the graphic chip to 270/540 Mhz to get a little smoother gameplay, but the game is fully playable at stock speeds too.

 

[Vaiks]

ATI Mobility or Nvidia GO graphics and you will be fine. Run away fron integrated graphics chipset and those without dedicated memory.

 

[Skyrim]

i have a sony vaio p4 2.8ghz 512 ram and Ati 9200 graphics card.
this can (generaly) run all sizes of map at full graphics with hardly any lag. ......it just crashes on the loading screen because of an error but one in game it runs fine. recently played large wold map with all poss civs and it ran fine. v.tempermental laptop.

 

[Abegweit]

Out of interest, I tried running Civ4 on a new entry-level machine with integrated graphics. This is a two-month old Acer 3002WCLI, with a Sempron 2800+, 1280x800 display, 768Meg of RAM and SiSM760GX graphics. It'll set you back about $750.

Answer: it runs but the graphics are jerky even in 4000BC. Vaiks is right, stay away from integrated graphic chips.

 

[groobz]

i just upradged my laptop and still no go.

1.7ghz
1.5gb ram
64 mb radeon 7000

it plays but really really slow and jerky,, any ideas anyone?

 

[Vaiks]

mrjepson,

Very good purchase! Oh my, am I jelous of you americans... I will never see a notebook like that over here... sad

 

[Lord Igor]

My Acer Aspire 5024WLMi runs the game. Things aren't perfect, but hey, 'laptop'.

Spec: 1.8ghz AMD Turion, 512 mb ram, 128mb ATI X700, 1280x800 screen, 4200rpm hdd.

Especially that last bit (the hdd) hurts performance bad. This hdd is very slow on seek and throughput, so it takes a while to get everything loaded into system memory. Once that has happened the game runs quite okay (until stuff starts slowing down after 2-3 hours of play, but that's likely a memory leak issue).

 

[Abegweit]

@Lord Igor

More memory would help a lot. I noticed a huge difference when I upgraded from 512Meg to 1.25 Gig. More memory=less disk access.