Will My PC Run CivBE
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ggmoyang
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According to steam, minimum requirement of ciV and Civ:BE is almost the same, with BE requiring a bit better graphics card.
I think if you use strategic view it would be playable, but I can't confirm this of course.
I think if you use strategic view it would be playable, but I can't confirm this of course.
BE being a newer game with slightly higher specs required, I would recommend an upgrade.
cooldude1128
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I'm just a few points above what's needed to run Civ 5, and yet it runs absolutely beautiful, so long as I turn the shadows off. I think a small upgrade will help, but you might be fine. It is, after all, too early to tell.
as with Firaxis tradition there might be a demo, so you could see with that. Or upgrade after you played BE and deemed it too slow.
If it runs Civ V in DX11 mode, then it will probably run since its the same engine. (Any graphical glitches you have on DX11 are likely for BE for the same reason.)
If it only runs Civ V in DX9 mode, then it doesn't look like it will run BE since it looks like they aren't including a DX9 version executable.
Note that late game slowness issues in Civ V may be much more of an issue with BE because there are less penalties to self expanding wide and in fact one of the victory conditions (Purity) requires space to set up the colonists coming thru the wormhole.
GoodSarmatian
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I'm actually optimistic that the late game might be faster. There are fewer factions and no AI controlled city states with their own units.
This comes back to was it sufficient for you to run Civ V under the DirectX11 executable?
It's the same engine, and you've stated you already have Civ V, so you would know better than anyone else.
Why no DX9? I guess my laptop won't play it. Desktop for that one. The adjusted requirements mention DX9. I just looked it up. http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=20257&game=Civilization:%20Beyond%20Earth Then on another site it says DX11. I figure many people use DX9 (or prefer DX9) so they may lose some customers.
Probably because DX9 was first released back in Dec 2002!
Civ V probably only included the DX9 exe in the first place in addition to DX11 because DX11 was only released in October 2009.
Windows Vista SP2 itself does support DX11 (no surprise since in many ways Windows 7 is Windows Vista SP2 with a better interface)
DirectX 12 is currently in development, anticipated release is Q42015. However, with it (so far) not including support for Windows7 (not even the 64 bit version) , this will mean DX11 will still be the latest version for those with Windows7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX
Worse than that, they aren't even doing a DX12 version for the 64 bit Windows 7 but appear to be trying to force people into downgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 if they want DX12. (I actually expect the game developers to revolt over this when it gets closer to release DX12 release, there will probably be so many people still with Windows 7 machines that the game developers won't want to be cut out of the market for.)
For those with a 32 bit machine though, they may be having problems already with newer software.
They know Win 8 is a hot mess; isn't Win 9 already coming next year?
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