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This might seem like an odd question to the more technically adept among you, but unfortunately when God was giving out Brains, I thought he said “Trains” and I asked for a big slow one! So here goes ….
I’ve always enjoyed the “Civilization” series and have at one point or another owned each one so far, that is until the latest one.
About the time that “Civ 4” was being released, my “long in the tooth” gaming pc was finally giving up the ghost after many years faithful service and then sadly “popped its clogs” which with nowhere near enough spare cash to even consider a replacement, left me forlorn in a gameless wilderness.
All was not lost though as a few months later (May just gone) my lovely wife bought me a shiny new “X-Box 360” and while it’s not a PC, I am very much enjoying it. But you can’t play “Civ 4” on a 360. (At least not at the moment.)
I also have a laptop which I use for work and though it was bought specifically with work in mind (hence no 3D graphics card etc.) I do play the occasional game on it.
One of the games which works beautifully on the system is “Civ 3”, but I’ve always assumed that “Civ 4” would be beyond its capabilities.
I know little or nothing about “Specs” as such, but I wrote down what I found under system info and here it is.
Microstar Professional Notebook
Intel ®
Celeron ® CPU 2.00 GHz
1.99 GHz 224 MB of RAM
Anyway, I recently saw “Civ 4” at a bargain price and was suddenly possessed by the strangest feeling that it WOULD work on my laptop after all. So after fishing around on the net for a bit I managed to find and download a demo for the game, which I installed with high hopes and anticipation of buying the full game if it ran ok.
Short story…. It didn’t! But there was just something about the actual was it refused to play ball, which made me wonder if the full game would act the same way or not.
The demo was fine up to selection screens, but when I clicked to move into the game proper it simply crashed with no actual explanation as such, but an option to report the failure to Microsoft.
So what I’m wondering is this….
Is the failure of the Demo a definite indication that the game proper will not run on my machine (as I originally assumed) or is it (as I am wishfully hoping) that the full game contains something like … oh I don’t know… “Flash 9” or something like that, which it’ll install on my system in order to run properly, but the current absence of which makes it impossible to run the demo.
Erm…. Reading that back I’m not sure the question makes sense, so I’m hoping that between your combined brainpower will be enough to decipher what I’m trying to say.
Yours with fingers (claws) crossed.
Badger
This might seem like an odd question to the more technically adept among you, but unfortunately when God was giving out Brains, I thought he said “Trains” and I asked for a big slow one! So here goes ….
I’ve always enjoyed the “Civilization” series and have at one point or another owned each one so far, that is until the latest one.
About the time that “Civ 4” was being released, my “long in the tooth” gaming pc was finally giving up the ghost after many years faithful service and then sadly “popped its clogs” which with nowhere near enough spare cash to even consider a replacement, left me forlorn in a gameless wilderness.
All was not lost though as a few months later (May just gone) my lovely wife bought me a shiny new “X-Box 360” and while it’s not a PC, I am very much enjoying it. But you can’t play “Civ 4” on a 360. (At least not at the moment.)
I also have a laptop which I use for work and though it was bought specifically with work in mind (hence no 3D graphics card etc.) I do play the occasional game on it.
One of the games which works beautifully on the system is “Civ 3”, but I’ve always assumed that “Civ 4” would be beyond its capabilities.
I know little or nothing about “Specs” as such, but I wrote down what I found under system info and here it is.
Microstar Professional Notebook
Intel ®
Celeron ® CPU 2.00 GHz
1.99 GHz 224 MB of RAM
Anyway, I recently saw “Civ 4” at a bargain price and was suddenly possessed by the strangest feeling that it WOULD work on my laptop after all. So after fishing around on the net for a bit I managed to find and download a demo for the game, which I installed with high hopes and anticipation of buying the full game if it ran ok.
Short story…. It didn’t! But there was just something about the actual was it refused to play ball, which made me wonder if the full game would act the same way or not.
The demo was fine up to selection screens, but when I clicked to move into the game proper it simply crashed with no actual explanation as such, but an option to report the failure to Microsoft.
So what I’m wondering is this….
Is the failure of the Demo a definite indication that the game proper will not run on my machine (as I originally assumed) or is it (as I am wishfully hoping) that the full game contains something like … oh I don’t know… “Flash 9” or something like that, which it’ll install on my system in order to run properly, but the current absence of which makes it impossible to run the demo.
Erm…. Reading that back I’m not sure the question makes sense, so I’m hoping that between your combined brainpower will be enough to decipher what I’m trying to say.
Yours with fingers (claws) crossed.
Badger
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