Wine...

[Grand Seeker]

My windows has crashed (got virus or whatever) so I'm no using ubuntu as an operative system now.
Then I found this mod, which may be worth trying, however, does anybody know if cIV runs smoothly using wine to emulate windows? And is this mod playble using wine?

 

[civ_king]

My windows has crashed (got virus or whatever) so I'm no using ubuntu as an operative system now.
Then I found this mod, which may be worth trying, however, does anybody know if cIV runs smoothly using wine to emulate windows? And is this mod playble using wine?

Erm why not get a Mac and Bootcamp XP? it doesn't get sick

 

[SolisDF]

Erm why not get a Mac and Bootcamp XP? it doesn't get sick

That's about as useful an answer as telling him to just reinstall windows. Some people don't have the money to drop on a whim, you know...

 

[Grand Seeker]

Firstly, I actually hate windows quit a bit and would love to be able to play cIV without it.
Secondly, mac is no better than windows.

 

[VSPavlov]

I'm afraid, you'll need a hell of RAM (I have lags even on XPSP3 with 2Gb, so you'll need at least 4, including the loss on emulation process), and a skill to configure wine in a way for it to give Civ enough RAM to run.

 

[civ_king]

Firstly, I actually hate windows quit a bit and would love to be able to play cIV without it.
Secondly, mac is no better than windows.

Macs don't go FUBAR on you

I'm afraid, you'll need a hell of RAM (I have lags even on XPSP3 with 2Gb, so you'll need at least 4, including the loss on emulation process), and a skill to configure wine in a way for it to give Civ enough RAM to run.

lags even with 2GB? sorry, this is 2010 and you can buy machine packing 32GB RAM

you also could run Civ IV in a Cider shell or CXZ or Wineskin on Mac, they run well,

 

[inuyashasama]

I'm running vista (blegh), have 3gb of RAM, and a non-dedicated (double blegh) graphics card. With graphics settings on high, it's a little bit sluggish, and I can run it that way until it gives me an out of memory error. With graphics on low, it doesn't crash as much (never from out of memory), and it crisp.

No matter what I do, by turn 150 or so, waiting for the computer takes forever. I don't know how anyone can stand to place these huge-marathon maps -- I'd go insane.

 

[civ_king]

I'm running vista (blegh), have 3gb of RAM, and a non-dedicated (double blegh) graphics card. With graphics settings on high, it's a little bit sluggish, and I can run it that way until it gives me an out of memory error. With graphics on low, it doesn't crash as much (never from out of memory), and it crisp.

No matter what I do, by turn 150 or so, waiting for the computer takes forever. I don't know how anyone can stand to place these huge-marathon maps -- I'd go insane.

It REALLY matters if it is 32 or 64 bit
If it is 64 then get 3 more GB RAM to bring it up to 6GB RAM (at least) then
4GB Patch it, http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php
makes it run faster (back-up your exe)

That should compensate for your card as Civ IV is mostly processor dependant, just lower the graphics to medium and life is good

 

[inuyashasama]

Wow, thanks for the advice. Sadly I'm running 32-bit, and would have trouble getting a hold of more RAM, but thanks for the thought.

 

[civ_king]

Wow, thanks for the advice. Sadly I'm running 32-bit, and would have trouble getting a hold of more RAM, but thanks for the thought.

2x2GB and 2x1GB RAM is hard to come by?
but yeah, it's all about the 64-bit... next computer make absolute sure it is 64 bit

 

[Grey Fox]

Problems with windows are more often than not PEBKAC ("Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair").

 

[civ_king]

Problems with windows are more often than not PEBKAC ("Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair").

Haha, that bring to mind the "OMG I JUST BOUGHT AN IMAC AND THE MOUSE HAS NO BUTTONS!!!! HELP!!!!" error