MarkG Supplemental CIVILIZATION IV PREVIEW

[Harovan]

Originally posted by tuckson
Sorry if I ask something which already passed earlier, but we're expecting a baby (week over time now) so I've been little on the internet recently.

And how will this poor thing live without his parents for the next three years?

[tuckson]

Originally posted by Solver

I ran on a 1.8 GHz system with 512 MB RAM and a GeForce 5700 with 256 MB VRAM. The latest builds had quite comfortable performance on this machine. On Standard maps, even in the late game, AI turn wait time wasn't high. For those of you with CPUs above 2 GHz, nothing at all to worry about. Even on Large maps, I didn't see long waits between turns.

Hmmm... it's not the cpu I'm worried about. I just hope my GeForce FX Go5700 (64MB) is able to show some smooth graphics.

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


And how will this poor thing live without his parents for the next three years?

I'll put a 2nd screen besides his bed so he can watch while we're playing

[Solver]

Hmmm... it's not the cpu I'm worried about. I just hope my GeForce FX Go5700 (64MB) is able to show some smooth graphics.

This isn't Half-Life 2, remember . The 5700 is able to render practically anything, and Civ4 doesn't have such awesome special effects or stuff that the card could choke .

Anyway, single-unit graphics is also a nice performance option to reduce the load on the video card.

[catorulz]

Civ Traits

Great information. Thanks.

I haven't seen anything discussing traits of the various civs. Do any traits seem more powerful or advantageous thus far? imo, the the industrious trait in Civ3 was great and the expanionist trait was almost worthless. Thanks!

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