'Official' releasedate: November

[Zoid]

Originally posted by binTravkin


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.

I might not be able to play Civ at all with my decrepit old geezer of a comp. 500 Mhz PIII with a Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 4000...

[Solver]

The video card would handle it, but 500 MHz is too low to run a 3D engine in any sort of a comfort.

[Vince278]

My GeForce 2 Ultra may even be good enough. I hope.

[Alexander I]

So is there any update beyond the generic "November?"
I'm anxious to stick some spears in barbarian gullets!

[AeonOfTime]

Hasn't anybody here played the new Pirates! game? If that was playabale on your machine, Civ4 will be too - it uses the same 3D engine... I don't think the few additional features they integrated into the engine for Civ will make much difference.

[Mace]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Low end is of course a matter of view, but I have a 3 year old(If not older) computer running on a P4 2GHz, 512 MB RAM. And as 3 year is the "standard" life span of a computer(well, that certainly has changed, I can play all my games on this computer with no problems...), that should at most be regarded as a medium end computer I guess.

That was a high-end computer 3 years ago! But then, so was mine (1.8 ghz, 512 RDRAM, GeForce w/64mb).

Back in the 90's, if you had a 3 year old computer, it was a GEEZER! But today, a 3 year old comp isn't too bad.
Things have slowed down in raw power of pc's, compared to what it was.

[Mace]

Originally posted by Solver
No engine is more challenging right now than the Doom3 engine.

What about FS? Have you ever run a program called Flight Simulator 2004? I have not run Doom3 but I bet MSFS2004 will give it a run for it's money in terms of hardware requirements....

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Solver
The video card would handle it, but 500 MHz is too low to run a 3D engine in any sort of a comfort.

That´s what I thought. But I was planning to buy a new comp anyway. And now I have a reason

[Max Sinister]

Originally posted by lebensraum
oh, and then there's easter, labour day, anzac day, queen's birthday, proclamation day, melbourne cup day, eight hours day, blood oath day, proclamation day, bank holiday and additional days just in case any of the above falls on a sunday.

(OT) You get additional days off if holidays happen to fall on sunday? You lucky bastards... we in Europe don't have that...

[GeoModder]

Well, holidays falling on a sunday are automatically 'moved' to the day after, except in some cases when one falls on a thursday and a second holiday in the month falling on a sunday is then moved to that friday.

Oh, and I live in Europe.

[DarkCloud]

Originally posted by Gen. Atkinson
So... I have until November to upgrade my PC.

Actually, anyone know what the specs are yet?(There may still be hope for my old machine.)

Just ask for a new PC for christmas

[DarkCloud]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Low end is of course a matter of view, but I have a 3 year old(If not older) computer running on a P4 2GHz, 512 MB RAM. And as 3 year is the "standard" life span of a computer(well, that certainly has changed, I can play all my games on this computer with no problems...), that should at most be regarded as a medium end computer I guess.

Scary... we almost have identical machines- except mine is an AMD.

[Last Conformist]

Would a RADEON IGP 340M suffice?