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My computer used to "hiccup" during the opening video -- every few seconds the audio and video would pause for a moment, before continuing. I made some changes, and now the video plays through fine.
Free space on the hard disk. Defrag. Defrag again. Install Civ4.
Start the game. Under "Video" select minimum detail. Under "Audio" choose MONO speaker output. Then quit it.
In c:\program files\firaxis games\sid meier's civilization4
Open "_Civ4Config"
Make these changes:
PopSlides = 1
MinimapTrilinearFilter = 0
AllowScreenShots = 0
DynamicAnimPaging = 0
AutoSaveInterval = 20
ScreenHeight = 600
ScreenWidth = 800
Which of these changes was the necessary one? and which ones are irrelevant to the hiccups? I don't know. My guess is that "AllowScreenShots" was important (because with it set to 0 a video card can run much more efficiently), and MONO was important (because this takes less CPU resources than STEREO), and that defragging was important.
My system:
IBM Thinkpad T41p
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, 32mb
Pentium M, 1.7GHz, 1gb ram.
Free space on the hard disk. Defrag. Defrag again. Install Civ4.
Start the game. Under "Video" select minimum detail. Under "Audio" choose MONO speaker output. Then quit it.
In c:\program files\firaxis games\sid meier's civilization4
Open "_Civ4Config"
Make these changes:
PopSlides = 1
MinimapTrilinearFilter = 0
AllowScreenShots = 0
DynamicAnimPaging = 0
AutoSaveInterval = 20
ScreenHeight = 600
ScreenWidth = 800
Which of these changes was the necessary one? and which ones are irrelevant to the hiccups? I don't know. My guess is that "AllowScreenShots" was important (because with it set to 0 a video card can run much more efficiently), and MONO was important (because this takes less CPU resources than STEREO), and that defragging was important.
My system:
IBM Thinkpad T41p
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, 32mb
Pentium M, 1.7GHz, 1gb ram.
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