Systems Civ3 runs fine on

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Droximus
Not running...the screen keeps going blank after the intro movie. It's a bit disheartening.

Running a brand new computer...

1.4Ghz
512 Mg RAM
GForce video card
Windows XP

Can't seem to figure it out. But then again, my computer guru friends are unreachable at the moment.

probably a driver incompatibility or something

Jon Miller

[TechWins]

Yeah, can you believe someone trying to run Civ3 with a 4mb graphics card?!?!?

On one of my brother's computers he has a PII 233 running with a 4mb video card and it works on there. I have had plenty of other games work perfectly fine for me, so yes I think it is the game. Plus the problem obviously has been reported by other people sine it has the problem I am having has been specifically stated, if you look at the troubleshooting hints link.

[SCLZ]

Originally posted by Droximus
Not running...the screen keeps going blank after the intro movie. It's a bit disheartening.

Running a brand new computer...

1.4Ghz
512 Mg RAM
GForce video card
Windows XP

I've seen people on the boards with Windows XP having trouble like this until they try the Windows98/ME compatibility mode. I don't have Windows XP (or Civ3 for that matter ) so I'm taking a stab in teh dark but maybe it will help.

LZ

[Asher]

Both systems work flawlessly for me:

Pentium III 800MHz
384MB RAM
GeForce 3
SoundBlaster Audigy
Windows XP

and

Pentium III 600MHz
256mb RAM
Radeon 64MB DDR
SoundBlaster Live!
Windows XP

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Steve Clark
Yeah, can you believe someone trying to run Civ3 with a 4mb graphics card?!?!? Needless to say, dude is blaming the game.

Steve, what's your point? The game doesn't need any 3D advanced card AFAIK, nor any resolution larger than 1024*768 is needed.
32MB GeForce aren't required in Sys Requirements by official site of Firaxis.

With that resolution and colour depth any 4MB card should be enough, not to mention many people complaining in HELP section are using system with better Video Card.

Enjoy your powerful system and consider the possibility that... Yes, if all his other SW works fine, the game could really have its part in this trouble.

[Earthling7]

Re: Systems Civ3 runs fine on

Originally posted by Jon Miller
I would recommend people get the SE edition too

Are you going to explain why?

[Max Webster]

No problems here


AMD Athlon XP 1.4 or 5 GIG
512MB RAM
GeForce 3
SoundBlaster Live
Windows 98

[GodSpawn]

Originally posted by Adm.Naismith
The game doesn't need any 3D advanced card AFAIK, nor any resolution larger than 1024*768 is needed.

It could make a *HUGE* difference to scroll rates if the game was using a very large bitmap to store the entire scrollable area, and just blitting the necessary bits when you scroll.

If the graphics card has enough memory, it would all work from the card's memory. If it didn't have enough memory, the blits would have to go from system memory to graphics memory - which is *MUCH* slower.

[Peterk]

For anyone wondering - Civ III runs like a dream on a P2 300 Mhz machine. I'm close to the minimum req with a good graphic card and 128M memory and it works perfectly; haven't spotted any glitches yet.

Played a 6 hour session last night and the game didn't crash either, so it's very stable as well in spite of other reports.

And the AI is kicking my butt too in a way that Civ II never did. Great fun!

[BlueHooHoo]

Machine specs:

Civ 3 runs a bit slowly on my home PC

Win XP
celery 633MHz O/C (950MHz)
GeForce 2 (det xp 21.83)
384 MB RAM

On an office PC the scrolling, in particular, is terrible.

Win XP
P4 1.9GHz
GeForce 3 (det Xp 21.83)
512 RAMBUS

Two Other PC's run the game very well

Win 98
Athlon 1.2 GHz
GeForce 2 (det xp 21.83)
256 RAM

Win ME
P3 933MHz
Radeon (4.13.01.7075)
256 RAM

The last machine runs the game brilliantly!

About time I tried to figure out the problem I suppose

[Grim Legacy]

Looks like Win2K and particularly WinXP slow it down...

On a side note, the definition of 'smooth' is probably highly subjective, judging from the claims about 1400 and 300Mhz PC's.

[Asher]

Grim: Rolling back your Nvidia drivers to 12.80 fixes the scrolling problem for now.

It appears to be a bug in Nvidia's Windows NT driver (2000, XP), but Mike from Firaxis also said it was due to sloppy coding on his part.

Whoever is at fault doesn't matter, I just hope they fix it.

[Adrock25]

P3-1000
GeForce 256
384 Ram
SB Live Value
Windows ME

It works fine...no chopiness that people have reported. No issues at all in fact.

On a side note: man this game is hard...I got worked on Warlord last night

[Jack_www]

I have not gotten the game yet, but I suspect that most of the problems with the screen going drak after the intro movie may be windows. I think all would agree with me the windows has a long history of bugs. That is why when windows ME came out I did not upgrade to it and that is the same reason why I did not upgrade to windows XP as well. I do not trust windows, I think it is the most horrible os out there, but what can you do? One of the reasons I like mac computers is because the os is much better than windows, not as many bugs or problem. Sorry if I got off topic.

[Provost Harrison]

Well I am optimistic for my Athlon 700 with 384Mb RAM, 32Mb GeForce DDR and 18Gb HDD then