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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
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Apr 1999
time: 04:51
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I'm bummed cuz I can't run Cviv IV in the US, my comp here isn't a powerful one. So lets see what people think.
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King
Rovaniemi, Lappland
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Dec 1999
time: 06:51
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LdiCesare: you have some good points, all of them actually. but what else pushes min. sys. regs. up more than graphics?
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De Hel van Enschede
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Nov 1999
time: 05:51
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The complaints about Civ4's min requirements are grossly exaggerated: I have a PC from early 2002 and it can run Civ4 comfortably. A PC from 1991 couldn't run Civ2 either, why would you expect a PC from earlier than 2001 to be able to run Civ4? The only real requirement for Civ4 besides a not completely antiquated PC, is to have non-integrated graphics -- ANY non-integrated graphics. My graphics card broke down a few months ago and since I plan on replacing this PC within the next year anyway I just bought just about the cheapest graphics card I could find to replace it for the time being (a Geforce 6200 for less than €30), and Civ4 is looking better than ever and plays smooth as a baby's skin, with all graphics settings maxed out (and when the game first came out I used to play it on a GeForce 440 MX, not with everything maxed out but it looked and played well enough). The only people I know of that are having real problems with Civ4 are people with integrated graphics (or even more ancient PCs than mine), but you bring that onto yourself: integrated graphics are just NOT suitable for gaming AT ALL, that's widely known -- they can barely play full-screen hi-res (not even hi-def) video. You just can't rely on integrated graphics if you plan to do anything video-related with your system...
Since Civ5 won't get released until late 2009 at the earliest, I certainly wouldn't expect it to run on a PC from 1995 -- that'd be insane. If you want that, stick to games from 1995... I don't think the requirements need to be significantly higher than Civ4, but they certainly shouldn't have to be lower. If any 4-year-old PC (by the time Civ5 is released) with non-integrated graphics can play Civ5, I'll be very, very pleased about Firaxis's continuing dedication to support low-end systems 
Last edited by Locutus on 23-04-2008 at 17:49
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Deity
of Spam
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Dec 2003
time: 04:51
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quote: originally posted by Locutus
My graphics card broke down a few months ago and since I plan on replacing this PC within the next year anyway I just bought just about the cheapest graphics card I could find to replace it for the time being (a Geforce 6200 for less than €30) |
BS. I still have a PC with a 6200 in it, with 1 GB DDR Ram and an Athlon 2400+. CIV ran like **** on anything over a large map in the late game.
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Chieftain
Yorkshire, England
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Jun 2006
time: 04:51
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well if and when civ5 is released im sure the graphics will look something like civ rev and therefore the min specs on the box will be higher than the min specs which are complete b/s for civ4
I just hope they test the multiplayer part before releasing any future civ games but i doubt it!
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King
London, UK
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Jun 2000
time: 04:51
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In January 2008 I bought my new machine, which is a nice one, minus a graphics card that I couldn'd afford at the time. Fortunately, I could still play Civ 4 BtS with its Intel G31/G33 graphics chipset. That was until I had the brilliant idea to update the graphics' drivers a get Civ with corrupted graphics! 
Anyway, now that I bought a decent graphics card (ATI 4670) I actually feel sad that I don't get any extra eye candy or detail or anything. Yes, we in the Civ community not always have the funding for a more modern machine than FPSs communities, but we still upgrade, and we also play other games, and I would like Firaxis to evolve a bit on that as well. Give us better graphics, give us more game detail.
For example, when Far Cry 1 came out with its 64-bit patch for Win XP 64, your graphics would improve in the field of vision depth. I think that was one kickass improvement! 
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