Official Civ4 Requirements

[MarkG]

MIMIMUM
# Windows 2000/XP with SP1 or higher
# Intel Pentium 4- or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1,2 GHz
# 256 MB RAM
# 64 MB graphics card with Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)
# DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
# DVD-ROM drive
# 1,7 GB free hard disk space

RECOMMENDED
# Windows XP with SP1 or higher
# Intel Pentium 4- or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1,8 GHz
# 512 MB RAM
# 128-MB graphics card with DirectX 8 support (pixel- and vertex shaders)
# DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
# DVD-ROM drive
# 1,7 GB free hard disk space


finaly released, thanks to civilized.de

[rumpo kid]

Well that's all good to know (though I wasn't expecting any trouble)

Edit: Edited spelling and typing errors (fat finger syndrome)

Steve

[Mace]

heheh. My 3 yr old system matches the "recommended" almost exactly. I built it right though, I expect no difficulty...

!!ACK!! I just realized, I don't have a DVD-ROM drive.
I better get one of those LiteOn's...

[Atahualpa]

So it will ship as DVD

[spa]

hmm so I'm fairly ignorant of things computery. I know though that my system meets the mins and exceeds them in most deparmments (not by a whole lot persay) so in general I'm good. One thing though. I don't have a DVD rom. Mine is just a CD drive. Does this mean that Civ won't work on my comp? It's kind of important to know today as Futureshop has a DVD drive on for $75 down from it's usual $125 (canadian), but the sale is over tomorrow.

[GeoModder]

Well, the AoE III demo ran on my portable, so I gather CIVIV will do as well.

[rumpo kid]

Spa:-
You'll definitely need a DVD Drive (ROM or Writer) do you feel confident enough to install it yourself?

Steve

[Imran Siddiqui]

MIMIMUM
# Windows 2000/XP with SP1 or higher
# Intel Pentium 4- or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1,2 GHz
# 256 MB RAM
# 64 MB graphics card with Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)
# DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
# DVD-ROM drive
# 1,7 GB free hard disk space

ACK! Well, like GeoModder, AoE III demo ran on my laptop (which only has 32 MB VRAM), so I hope I can do the same with CivIV!!

[spa]

Originally posted by GeoModder
Well, the AoE III demo ran on my portable, so I gather CIVIV will do as well.

Not really. I haven't ever installed anything myself (in the past I have had access to people in the know, but I moved to Calgary and both of them are still in Halifax). If it's a fairly simple matter of plugging the thing in and running the add hardware and install drivers I might give it a go but we'll see. For $40 more bucks I can get Futureshop to handle the whole thing and that's kind of tempting.

[Slax]

Remember that this is from a German site, so the DVD vs CDROM may differ for North America, etc.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by spa
Not really. I haven't ever installed anything myself (in the past I have had access to people in the know, but I moved to Calgary and both of them are still in Halifax). If it's a fairly simple matter of plugging the thing in and running the add hardware and install drivers I might give it a go but we'll see. For $40 more bucks I can get Futureshop to handle the whole thing and that's kind of tempting.

Some misunderstanding here, I wasn't responding to your earlier post. We simply Xposted due to the forum being on-and-off half the time. (probably by the moving of threads)

But for your question: A DVD won't run on a CD-drive, so you better take that buy if you can.

[Sirotnikov]

Oh no

I have no DVD Rom...

I won't have money to upgrade anytime soon...

And 1.7 GB is a bit much for a single game...

[Sarxis]

Yeah, no DVD drive. Not exactly sure why they will do DVD only- 1.7gigs is not a big game. Biggest CIV game, maybe, but a lot of the 3d action titles are double this and still come with DVD -or- mutli-CD versions.

But.. been wanting to get one anyhow, just can't right now. Looks like this one requirement is going to cause me not to be playing cIV for a while.

[Guildenstern]

Laptop with less than 64 Mgs vram

I know thap people really in the know sometime peruse these forums, and I have noticed that a couple people in previous posts have said that they do not have 64 megs vram, though the AOE III demo runs on their systems. I am in the same boat. I would even wager that they have the popular dell 5/600(m) series of laptops, which have intel integrated graphics.

If I only have the intel integrated, does this mean that I should go get my money back for my preorder version? That would dishearten me most severely.

[Rychro Anrise]

Man, I use Windows 98. I knew this graphical update of Civilization would inevitably come around to kick me in the shin. Best cancel my pre-order then.

(Yes, Amazon says "2000/XP", but they said that about Dawn of War - Winter Assault, which I just beat a few days ago.)