Now THIS is how Civ was meant to be enjoyed!

[vmxa1]

It is perceptions. I am griping with just a large map in my system which as a raptor drive and 1GB mem. I just expect no delays at all and you will get some on any system.

I two usually do not have other things running, but when I come to the net, I will open a few things.

[Ouro_827]

Well, I've got two systems.... An ancient obselete, defective, last of the class IBM laptop, 400 Celeron or so, and 64k RAM. That's what I've run it on for a long time... My other system is a 2.66 with 512, but want to get some more speed, both kinds, because my graphic games use all the space they can get... thinking dual Xeons.

[Krill]

You're all lucky g*its (except Arrian). I've got 1.4Gz Athlon, 256Mb DDRram, but the graphics is on board. (Probably) doesn't matter for civ, but other 3D games? No chance

[binyo66]

No, it does matter. I figure why my 2 CPU was so slow when I played CivIII 1.07f (with 2 CPUs and 1.44G 512M) was because the graphic was onboard (Intel Server Motherboard). Especially when scrolling.

[vmxa1]

If you have a non AGP card that could put more on the bus. If your card needs more cpu cycles it will slow it down.

So if you have a good card it will put less of a load on the CPU.

[asleepathewheel]

One odd thing I've noticed is, and this is for at least back to PTW, that if I have any internet explorer browser windows open, it takes forever to exit the game, system just hangs for a while.(1.7ghz 768 rdram) if no ie windows are open, it exits immediately. Anybody else noticed this, I saw Bongo did I think, but not sure of the IE correlation.

[vmxa1]

I had not noticed it, but I have not exited the game in days. I just leave it up, even when I go to bed.

[Aqualung71]

Man, that would kill my machine. Every time I run Civ, I have to restart my computer if I want to do anything else afterwards.

[bongo]

asleepathewheel , I haven't looked for an IE correlation but I will next time I play.

Normally there is a lot of starting and exiting the game when I play. As I take part in several demogames/PBEMs I need to jump between c3c and PTW, I also want to have IE at hand for turn-reports, instructions etc.

[vmxa1]

Ok just for sleepy I exited the game. It had about 2 seconds where the IE window was not avilable (grayed). Then things were normal.

[bongo]

asleepathewheel & the rest.

This time I ended all IE windows and civ exits much faster now. Thanks

[asleepathewheel]

glad I could help. It really drove me crazy how my sytem would hang like that. sucks to have to exit the browsers though.

[smellymummy]

ie + civ used to slow my system, especially when the IE process was running for extended periods of time

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

is a perfect replacement for IE. I keep civ running with keepres on and the mozilla browser for days without ever experiencing any system lag

[vmxa1]

It is not lag I fear, but rather hackers. I disconnect as soon as I am done. No leaving IE up fo rme.

[smellymummy]

yeah, and thats another reason why I don't use IE anymore. There's so many exploits for that browser. You can get hacked through a pop up and you wouldn't even know it.