Civ IV PC Specs to Get it Working

[Papewaio]

Ok Ladies and Gentlemen, can you outline how well your Civ IV game is playing and what system specs you are using. If you have changed anything that makes the game work better.

I am figuring out if my rig can take it and what I would need for an upgrade if it cannot.

[Kekvit Irae]

AMD Athlon XP 2500 running at 1.47 GHz
1gig DDR SDRAM
nVidia Geforce FX 5600 Ultra using 77.73 drivers
Sound Blaster Live! Value

CivIV runs ok, but the unit orders are delayed by half a second, and usually I dont get notification (Soandso converts to Hinduism) until a turn or so afterwards because it's delayed.

EDIT: All graphic options set to Low

[screwtype]

Athlon 64 3000+, 1 Gig RAM, ATI 9800 Pro, Windows XP Pro SP2.

Runs fine unless I turn antialiasing on, in which case there are slight delays at x2 and long delays and graphical glitches on x4.

I don't think you can tell just from specs tho. Some people are running with no probs on less than recommended specs, others cannot run it on high end machines. Just the luck of the draw it seems...

[Quid]

PIV 2.8 GHz, 2 Gig RAM, ATI 9800 Pro, Windows XP Pro SP2.

Yet to encounter problems. Runs smoothly.

Quid

[Rosacrux redux]

AMD Athlon 3200+, Geforce 5900 (77.73 dr.) 512 RAM, Windows XP SP2

I am having problems with Huge mapsizes. Huge problems, including system lockups, tremendous delays, glitches, choppy movement, even BSOD a couple of times. I am practically confined in playin up to large maps.Even with a large, by the time I reach the modern age, things become nasty as well (but never get as far as in Huge).
I believe if I upgrade my RAM to 1 GB, things will go much smoother and perhaps I'll be able to play a Huge map beyond the industrial era. Am doing so, actually, next week (gonna add a new HDD while I am at it).

[The_Doctor]

Same as kekvitirae, only a faster processor and a worse graphics card.

[screwtype]

Same as kekvitirae, only a faster processor and a worse graphics card.

I've got a better system than both of you. Nair nair na nair nair.

[doc_bean]

*Pentium 2.4Ghz, 512mb ram, radeon 9600

No crashes or big issues yet, it does lag at times, haven't tried anything above standard map size yet

*Pentium 2.6Ghz, 512mb ram, radeon 9700pro

Occasional crashes and graphic glitches, serious lags in later turns (at least at times), I'm playing standard map sizes, I loaded the earth1000AD scenario and it took a couple of minutes, but it seems to work reasonably well.

CivIV is one of the most stable games I've played on this system though, it seems to make any game crash, I'm not sure why (I suspect XP)

[frogbeastegg]

:gring:

P4 3.0ghz
2GB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
SB Live! 5.1
Windows XP SP2

It works very well for me. I did have to update my video drivers from the third most recent ones (I went backwards to see if it helped BI, and the strange problem I have of the ocean texure applying to the land as well as the sea whenever a game is loaded. It didn't.) to the most recent ones.

The wonder movies do stutter a bit soundwise, and the overall voluime level is too quiet, even on max. I had to increase the volume of the MP3 files themselves before I coudl hear more than a faint hint of music and mumbled speech.

I haven't tried the largest map size yet, or had all civs on one map. That might make it stumble a bit, though really it shouldn't.

[ShadesWolf]

I will report later on how well it works - havent had enough time to play yet. But so far had no problems

My system is approx 18months old

P4 - 3.0ghz
Ram 1.0gig
GeForce FX5700ve (256MB Ram) - had to upgrade to this to get game to work.
Realtek AC97 - soundcard - think its part of motherboard

[doc_bean]

*Pentium 2.6Ghz, 512mb ram, radeon 9700pro

Occasional crashes and graphic glitches, serious lags in later turns (at least at times), I'm playing standard map sizes, I loaded the earth1000AD scenario and it took a couple of minutes, but it seems to work reasonably well.

CivIV is one of the most stable games I've played on this system though, it seems to make any game crash, I'm not sure why (I suspect XP)

That PC went to heaven yesterday, so don't pay too much attention to my comments about it...

(damn stuck without a PC)

UPDATE: it seems that just 256mb RAM has gone to silicon heaven, the rest seems to run okay again