Literaly unplayable? True.
I have a 1.2 GhZ AMD Thunderbird, 128 MB DDR RAM, GeForce2 GTS 32 MB... I tried playing on a huge map, with 10 civs, and in the 1800s the game got unplayable. I thought maybe it was because of my CPU... maybe the game wasn't optimized for AMDs... I tried a Pentium III 700, 128 MB machine, and to no avail the results were much worse.
With 1.2 GhZ AMD I started getting 1-3 minutes of wait time which made the game unplayable for me, but as I look here in the forums, AMD performs much better than Intel because of it's strong math processing and level1 and L2 caches start giving hits after a few minutes of playing.
The best thing would be a patch or at least a SUGGESTION from Firaxis. The next best thing, if you can buy a DDR AMD 1500+ and 256+ system. I beleive it would make the game a bit more playable, at least not 15 minutes. The last best thing is DON'T play on huge maps. You can still play on large maps with 16 civs w/o much problems.
I have a 1.2 GhZ AMD Thunderbird, 128 MB DDR RAM, GeForce2 GTS 32 MB... I tried playing on a huge map, with 10 civs, and in the 1800s the game got unplayable. I thought maybe it was because of my CPU... maybe the game wasn't optimized for AMDs... I tried a Pentium III 700, 128 MB machine, and to no avail the results were much worse.
With 1.2 GhZ AMD I started getting 1-3 minutes of wait time which made the game unplayable for me, but as I look here in the forums, AMD performs much better than Intel because of it's strong math processing and level1 and L2 caches start giving hits after a few minutes of playing.
The best thing would be a patch or at least a SUGGESTION from Firaxis. The next best thing, if you can buy a DDR AMD 1500+ and 256+ system. I beleive it would make the game a bit more playable, at least not 15 minutes. The last best thing is DON'T play on huge maps. You can still play on large maps with 16 civs w/o much problems.
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