What is worse?

[Terra Nullius]

I can live without the bug-squashing. But how am I supposed to spend my time at work?

It's got so bad lately I even sunk low enough to post opinions in the oaties.

I've gotta get an upgrade soon for the sake of my own sanity. Besides, I just know Locutus is forlorn here without me.

[Datajack Franit]

one word: upgrade

from hardware drivers to windows update

[Sabre2th]

Re: What is worse?

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
I don´t have the game yet. And I´m not sure I can run it even when I get it (too old comp). But there seems to be problems galore even with fairly new comps.

So what´s worse? Not having the game and being well below minimum req. Or having the game and not be able to play due to crashes and such.

What are your system specs?

[Proteus_MST]

Hm,
I voted for having a banana,
but, after giving it a second thought,
with a banana you have at least something to eat,
whereas in the first choice of your poll you wouldn´t even have this
and therefore I´d vote for your first option instead

[wilebill2]

Actually Alpha Centauri is a pretty good game!

I'm running it. But I would say this. If you are forced to wait for a patch level or two, it would not be tragic. Though if you wait too long, you might begin to suffer from simultaneous longing for Civ 4 and Galciv 2!

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
one word: upgrade

from hardware drivers to windows update

Another word: No movies, or any other of the extraneous nonsense that will prevent you playing Civ.
You bought it for the game, right, because if you want to see wonder movies then just subscribe to the Discovery Channel. Play Civ, and appreciate it for what it is, and get rid of all of the memory-heavy extras.

[Zoid]

wilebill2, see above post #15

Sabre2th, Pentium III 450 Mhz, 320 Mb RAM, GeForce4 MX 4000

And as I said above the game runs, but not without difficulties...

And don´t tell me to upgrade. I know I have to in the near future. And as icing on the cake my monitor went all wonky on me this morning. The tube is about to retire

[Paddy]

Not having the game - simple as that.

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by duke o' york
if you want to see wonder movies then just subscribe to the Discovery Channel.

Word.

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
upgrade

Easier said than done.

Saving for dvd player: 2 weeks

Saving for new mobo & cpu: 2 months

Saving for new graphics card: 3 months

Understanding what the heck is an
NVIDIA X1000 Release 807800 Radeon X800 XT PE GT GMA950 CrossFire double SLI GeForce 6800 Ultra:
neverending

Time to save for the game: Nil.
(Hell, If I needed the money to go out and buy the game, I'd just go into the street and do over a pensioner)

1) I already spent my gaming budget this year buying a comp that would run C3C. That machine does everything I need except run Civ4. So it's hard to justify scrapping a perfectly good, 6 month-old machine.

2) When I do upgrade, I'd really prefer to get a decent machine, and a mobo with S-ATA. Instead, upgrading now means having another trailing-edge machine, just clinging to the edge of obsolescence.

3) My landlord just got into the act and "upgraded" my rent, severely restricting my cash-flow.
tHOse #%$* rUSSIANs!!

4) As I've said elsewhere, my neighbours can scarcely afford a TV. There's not much solidarnosc in showing up with a warp-drive while they're still busting rocks by hand.

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
see above post #15

post #15
I had the game for almost a week now, and it is painfully slow on my home comp (movies are so choppy they are unwatcable ). Alas, I have no other comp to play it on. But at least it runs.

Ah yes, of course. Now applying AC5 decryption algorithm,...

Sabre2th, Pentium III 450 Mhz, 320 Mb RAM, GeForce4 MX 4000

How bad is the performance?

I understood it wouldnay run on anything below a P4.

Maybe there's hope yet for my P3 with it's blistering 350 Megasuperblitzinhertz

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Terra Nullius

How bad is the performance?

I understood it wouldnay run on anything below a P4.

Maybe there's hope yet for my P3 with it's blistering 350 Megasuperblitzinhertz

It´s bad. The game barely runs. Grapics are seriously choppy and it takes forever to start the game and load saves in-game. The game uses 85-90% of the cpu and all the memory and then some...