Civ4 - Review & Trailer

[sfer]

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Talk about poor memory management.... it was at 800MB after about 5 hours of gameplay and 90-odd modern armors roaming the screen.

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I guess I'll be buying a new computer.

[obsidian]

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OK so my 16MB video card in my laptop is crap. I need an upgrade for p+ker anyway and I want this game. I'm looking at getting a Dell Dimension E510 with a great coupon today. Can someone tell me if these specs will work well for the game and if this system might be solid or not?


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Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz

1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz

256MB PCI Express x16 ATI Radean X600 SE

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That video card is lacking. Just get the integrated and you can spend about $200 and get a Geforce 6800 which would be much better.

[Blarg]

As usual, Amazon is taking forever to ship this. It doesn't matter what mailing arrangements you make, they take three days to even get the thing out their door.

[lastchance]

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Check out this thread from a guy who has 512 megs, courtesy of the link from a poster above.

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Other users are reporting the same problem. I have that problem as well.

It has been suggested that there is a memory leak in the program. I just completed a test run where I ALT-TABbed out of the game regularly to look at a CPU and memory use meter. Slowly but surely CIV4 consumes more and more RAM until the available physical RAM was exhausted. At that point the system slowed to a crawl. CIV4 was using ~400MB of RAM when it crippled the system.

I was able to terminate the program using Task Manager and then the system came back around.


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A memory leak is a bad, bad thing. The less memory you have, the worse.

But these things get fixed too. It just means you might start off with some frustration for a while until the fix is in. I have no idea how responsible these guys are on that kind of thing. A memory leak doesn't exactly recommend them on the responsibility front, nor does shipping without a couple features they advertise.

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My 256 can run it, but the settings are all shot. I have a 1.67 GHZ motherboard, 256 MB of RAM, and also a GEForce 2 MX 400.

I definitely should buy some more RAM, but other than that, this game is definitely runable with my somewhat outdated computer.

[Blarg]

Cool. That's definitely an older computer for modern games. You definitely could use lots more memory, too.

I have an ATI card, and people are up in arms complaining about all kinds of problems with ATI cards. Sure hope I don't have any. I'll find out on Monday or Tuesday, I guess, when I expect it to come in. Maybe Wednesday, considering how incompetent Amazon is.

[WillMagic]

Best game ever.

Will

[BadBoyBenny]

I have very similar specs and had to adjust the default settings to make it work acceptably fast. But it should be fine for you.

[Voltron87]

I just got this. Looks good, but is there any way to speed up the gameplay? I don't care for the animations and I'm sure some of the pauses could be removed.

[RustedCorpse]

How does the multiplayer work? Does it connect to a master server or can I direct connect to a specific IP address?

[Alex/Mugaaz]

Anyone want to play PM me