Have any laptop users gotten this to work?

[jpsx]

I would like to hear from anybody who has been able to run this game successfully on an ATI-equipped laptop.

If this describes you:

- What are your specs?

- What driver are you using, and where did you find it?

Me: Dell Inspiron 8200, Mobile Radeon 9000.

I am currently running a third-party driver, as I have been completely unable to install any of the drivers from the ATI site (I get the video card not found error if I try to install Catalyst 5.10).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[PaulH2]

Well, by "successfully", if you mean does the game run, then yes, but I do get the crash to desktop problems late in the game (starting around the modern age).

My specs are:

Alienware MJ-12 m7700 (3.8GHz P4, 2GB RAM, ATi Mobile Radeon X800)
Drivers I'm using currently are the latest from omegadrive (based on the Catalyst 5.10), but I have also used the official mobile Catalyst 5.10 drivers. These drivers were from www.omegdrivers.net and www.ati.com respectively.

Hope this helps,

Paul

[Fuzzyhead]

If you don't count the Wonder movie sound skipping, yeah it runs smooth as butter.

My specs:

Dell Inspiron XPS Gen2
Pentium M4 2.13
1 GB RAM
nVidea GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
ForceWare 78.11
SigmaTel C-Major Onboard-Audio
Windows XP Home SP2

[Fuzzyhead]

Re: Have any laptop users gotten this to work?

I am currently running a third-party driver, as I have been completely unable to install any of the drivers from the ATI site (I get the video card not found error if I try to install Catalyst 5.10).

Had a Radeon 9000 in my old laptop. You can't upgrade those with the regular driver bundle. Your manufacturer should provide drivers for those. You can download an utility to "mod" those drivers on the fly so that they'll install. That's what I did. Can't remember the name of the tool... Google it. Or use Omega drivers. Hope that helps.

[Kristian95]

I think the tool you speak of is the DHmodtool I tried both that and the omega drivers, none helped me get rid of the black map and missing leader heads (I have an ATI 7500 card)... but at least my game doesn't crash (I play by doing the reveal map in the world builder)

[PaulH2]

One thing to bear in mind, ATi do provide official drivers for SOME mobile cards (see https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...e&folderID=293). Unfortunately, the 9000 isn't one of these, it seems only to be the more recent cards.

The cards supported by these drivers are (from the above site):
Mobility™ Radeon® X800
Mobility™ Radeon® X700
Mobility™ Radeon® X600
Mobility™ Radeon® X300
Mobility™ Radeon® 9800
Mobility™ Radeon® 9700
Mobility™ Radeon® 9600

Alternatively, you can of course use Omega drivers which (as far as I know) support all the mobile ATi cards.

Paul

[Fuzzyhead]

Originally posted by Kristian95
I think the tool you speak of is the DHmodtool I tried both that and the omega drivers, none helped me get rid of the black map and missing leader heads (I have an ATI 7500 card)... but at least my game doesn't crash (I play by doing the reveal map in the world builder)

RIGHT! That's the one!

[Kristian95]

glad that my memory can be of help for once

[archermoo]

Seems to work well on mine:

Inspiron 6000
ATI x300
Pentium 4m 1.6
1280MB RAM

Though I haven't played it very far into the game yet. Mostly I've been playing on my desktop.

[One_Mean_Rabbit]

It works better on my laptop than my desktop. My laptop is a HP Compaq nc6000 w/ AMD2200+ and 32MB Raedon Mobility 9600, 512 MB RAM.

My computer is an AMD 2800+, 128MB Raedon 9700AIW, 1GB RAM. On my computer, it will consistently lockup to a black screen randomly. My laptop can play for hours, but eventually *after reloads...heh I'm still learning* will get bogged down with a memory leak with CIV taking up over 250MB ram and going up 1MB/sec...

Great things to do for both. SERIOUS defrag, and use TaskMAnager *the new EndItAll* That last program makes my CIV play fly, even on my laptop!!

[MikeReed]

Jpsx: Just thought I'd let you know that it does work on my laptop, which is also an Inspiron 8200 with Radeon 9000... So your issues must be software/driver related.

Here's my specs:

Dell Inspiron 8200
PentiumIV - 2.4 GHZ
1024 MB of RAM
80 GB 7200 RPM HD
Radeon 9000 Mobility - 64 MB
WinXP SP2 (All other updates, including .Net Framework)
DirectX 9.0c
ATI Catalyst 5.10a (Omega)
Virtual Memory set at 2.5 Gig

[Imran Siddiqui]

Works on mine (though slowwww in the end game)

Dell Inspiron 8200
Pentium IV - 1.7 Ghz
512 MB RAM
GeForce4 Go 440 - 32 MB - Driver 77.56 (from laptopvideo2go.com)

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Yes. It runs without any crashes. It's slow (which is to be expected given that I'm not far above the minimum processor speed), but almost everything displays fine and everything runs as it apparently was supposed to. (The one exception: the "founding religion" videos sometimes don't display. I've only had this problem with the Buddhism video.) Given that I run NVIDIA and not ATI, I'm probably not someone you're looking for, but I have gotten it to run.

Dell Latitude D800
Pentium M 1.4 GHz
1 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Partially relevant: The first time I installed Civ II (vanilla, 2.42, on a computer that was above the minimum requirements, if barely), I couldn't get it to run. Apparently game.txt didn't get copied over. I ended up getting it working right on the second install, though.

[tiger00]

I play it at 1280x1024, full graphics, and haven't experienced any slowdowns at all.

Custom Build - Aopen OEM
Pentium M 2.0Ghz
1 GB Ram
Mobile Radeon 9700

I'm also using the 5.08 drivers installed with dhmodtool. I was going to upgrade, but so far the game works great for me, I'm not gonna break it...

Only problem I've had is the crashing to the desktop that some people are also experiencing. But it only happens on larger maps after several hours of play. Granted, that kind of crap shouldn't happen on a final release, but there are plenty of other threads on that already.

It seems to me, from reading the forums, that the key factors are a fast enough cpu, and 1 GB of ram. But, perhaps the ram problem will be fixed after a patch.

[Adm.Naismith]

Re: Have any laptop users gotten this to work?

Originally posted by jpsx
I would like to hear from anybody who has been able to run this game successfully on an ATI-equipped laptop.

If this describes you:

- What are your specs?

- What driver are you using, and where did you find it?

I play it at 1280x800 (wide screen) and 1024*768, full graphics, and everything seems good, still I'm playing a game on standard map, not in modern time yet. I know I'm slow, but I've had very little spare time to play.

Fujitsu-Siemens
Pentium M 1.7Ghz
1 GB Ram
Mobile Radeon 9700 SE 128MB RAM
Drivers included by Fujitsu (no upgrade available)
Updated mine DirectX 9.0c with version provided by Firaxis on install disk.

Intro movie jump a bit, everything else seems fine. (Crossing fingers!)