'Official' releasedate: November

[CapTVK]

Well, it certainly won't run on mine...


I'm a bit surprised they want to actually release the game this year. Maybe it really is almost finished but this release date seems way too fast for me.

[vee4473]

I saw Gamespot had Nov. 1 as the date when I read the preview a day or two ago....

but, i took it with a grain of salt.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by CapTVK
I'm a bit surprised they want to actually release the game this year. Maybe it really is almost finished but this release date seems way too fast for me.

It's been under development for two years. That will be two and a half when it hits the stores. That's actually considered a pretty long time for most games...

[Solver]

My system is an Athlon 1.6 GHz with 512 MB RAM and a Geforce FX 5200.

If Civ4 wouldn't be perfectly smooth on that, I'd be disappointed, because previous Civ games always ran very well on low-end PCs, and that's not a low-end PC. Seems already that due to the 3D engine Civ4 will require a real video card instead of an integrated one.

[vee4473]

2 years is quite alot of time. I bet they have some good stuff going.

[alms66]

Originally posted by Solver

My system is an Athlon 1.6 GHz with 512 MB RAM and a Geforce FX 5200.

If Civ4 wouldn't be perfectly smooth on that, I'd be disappointed, because previous Civ games always ran very well on low-end PCs, and that's not a low-end PC. Seems already that due to the 3D engine Civ4 will require a real video card instead of an integrated one.

You should have a 'real' video card anyway, as integrated graphics can't be updated and just generally suck.

[alva]

Originally posted by Solver

My system is an Athlon 1.6 GHz with 512 MB RAM and a Geforce FX 5200.

If Civ4 wouldn't be perfectly smooth on that, I'd be disappointed, because previous Civ games always ran very well on low-end PCs, and that's not a low-end PC. Seems already that due to the 3D engine Civ4 will require a real video card instead of an integrated one.

I'd say those specs are pretty low-end,especilly with a release date six months from now.

[Vince278]

The holiday season, in America anyway, is Halloween > Thanksgiving > Christmas > New Years, or Oct 30 to January 1. The peak is between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Trifna
The game is based on Pirates' engine. The specs of Pirates are (minimum) 1GHz Pentium/Athlon processor, 256 RAM memory, 32 RAM video card.

I imagine the requirements for cIV will be somewhat higher, simply because there is the potential for much more units to be on screen at the same time, but I imagine it should do well on the 1.6GHz PC above.

[Solver]

What I imagine as low-end is more like a 1GHz PC with 256 MB RAM. I'm not worried either way because I have a DX9 graphics card with 256 MB VRAM, but I always want games to have low requirements .

[Fidel]

hummm
i have two comps, one is 2 yr old desktop athlon 1600, 256, 32 mb nvidia. the other is one yr old compaq presario with 2,8 athlon xp-m, 512 mb (out of which 64 megs go to integrated video card).
seems, all of a sudden, that i will be screwed on both comps. i could not find any link to check those quoted specs, but those estimations look pretty steep

[vovan]

I think your laptop will very likely run the game just fine.

My only computer is a 1.7GHz laptop with 512MB RAM and an integrated GeForce 440 Go video card. It ran Pirates just fine. One of the few games these days I didn't notice any lag in.

[Solver]

You should definitely not be screwed on your laptop, though you may want to turn off some of the graphical effects.

[Fidel]

desktop will be scrapped by the end of the year anyway

[binTravkin]

What I imagine as low-end is more like a 1GHz PC with 256 MB RAM.

That's really a low-end.

My home PC is an old 1.2G Celeron with 256 RAM, so I hope the reqs will be no higher than that..

And about laptops - as a general rule thay tend to be slower than desktop computers, so you should distract some 20-30% from it's speed to get the actual resources you have.