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I'm not sure what my settings are, but I have no problems with a 350Mhz G4 running under system 9.0 and with 192MB RAM. I am not using VM as I have no need for it and it tends to slow down the machine. Yes, many recommend the 1MB trick, but that shouldn't increase speed as I understand, but lower the RAM required for applications.
As a whole, the game tends to slow down with larger maps or more civilizations in the game. Right now I generally play with huge maps and 12 civs (13 including Barbarians). At this setting, speed is relatively slow, but yet acceptable. I'm not sure how it'd be in later stages of the game as I haven't played as much since I started looking through the various text files that are used to set up teh game rules.
If you have problems with speed or memory related crashes I would recommend using smaller maps or less civilizations. Screen resolution should also help (color I believe is not an option for CTP). I run at 1024x768 at millions of colours (but the G4 comes with a great graphics card unlike my G3). Wish I could test the game on my G3 (233Mhz original G3 desktop with no hardware improvements other then some RAM) to compare, but it's sitting on the wrong side of the Atlantic right now.
As a whole, the game tends to slow down with larger maps or more civilizations in the game. Right now I generally play with huge maps and 12 civs (13 including Barbarians). At this setting, speed is relatively slow, but yet acceptable. I'm not sure how it'd be in later stages of the game as I haven't played as much since I started looking through the various text files that are used to set up teh game rules.
If you have problems with speed or memory related crashes I would recommend using smaller maps or less civilizations. Screen resolution should also help (color I believe is not an option for CTP). I run at 1024x768 at millions of colours (but the G4 comes with a great graphics card unlike my G3). Wish I could test the game on my G3 (233Mhz original G3 desktop with no hardware improvements other then some RAM) to compare, but it's sitting on the wrong side of the Atlantic right now.
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