"Merry Christmas! :)"?

[Harkonnen604]

Solver
Yes, but these improvements are not as effective as they could be, should they be considered when the project started. The fact that 1.09+mem_fix works better than 1.52 only proves that...

[Harkonnen604]

P.S: I don't strike against Firaxis. They made a job I wasn't expecting them to do. Implementing what I've done isn't much easier with original source code since GameBryo operates at a slightly higher level of graphics primitives. It is a remarkable upgrade!

[Solver]

Sorry, but whether 1.09 + your fix is better than 1.52 is up to debate. There's a lot of people for whom performance has improved significantly in 1.52, at least as good as with your fix, and it's also stable.

I have somehow been very lucky, though. 1.09 was stable for me, and had acceptable performance. I could play Large maps fairly well, and it only slowed somewhat in the late game. With 1.52 I can play even late game Large maps while having some applications open in the background and alt-tabbing constantly. And neither official version has crashed for me. I guess I really am lucky!

[Jaybe]

Here's to Merry Christmas, and Happy Tryptophane (TURKEY) Overload!

[Harkonnen604]

Solver
I know that there are systems where they are equal (usually these are systems where 1.09 was ok on itself), but I didn't see a system up till today which would perform better with 1.52

Except movies problem which is so-so solved in 1.52, and it's definitely a problem if that's the only problem one had...

[Willem]

Originally posted by Solver
The 1.52 patch fixes the outstanding memory problems with Civ4, while freezes... well, I can't say much about that now because I don't know the reasons.

Hmmm, not entirely. It started slowing down on me getting into the medieval era but after a reboot it was working fine again. So there's still some leaking going on I'm guessing.

[Urban Ranger]

Well Civ 4 with patch 1.52 works a bit better when I actually decrease the AGP aperture size to 64MB. I was able to play for about 20 minutes instead of 5~10 minutes before the game freezes.

[Harkonnen604]

All
About decreasing AGP aperture size:

1) It will make things even slower with 64Mb video cards
2) It increased CTDs probability at least with 1.09
3) It has a huge impact on other games.
4) This probably makes it better only for AGP 4x systems (not sure).

[Urban Ranger]

Yeah, the game is slower, but at least it doesn't freeze that often.

[Mr. President]

ZOMFG U MENTIONED CHRISTIANITY ME LEAVE FOREVAR!!!1

Belated Merry Christmas.