Your system

[Tiberius]

AMD Duron 900 MHz, 256 MB RAM, S3 Savage4 16 MB video, Win Me.

Works fine on standard maps and 8 civs. Don't know for huge maps and 16 civs 'cause I play with standard settings.

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by lateralis
PowerMac G4 2 x 1 gHz
1.5 gig RAM
80 gig factory HDD
40 gig add on HDD
GeForce4 MX 64meg dual head vid card

everything runs pretty smooth

Macintosh REPRESENT!!!!

Lateralis

Jesus Christ! Are you playing on a server or what? 1.5 GB of RAM

[bongo]

I have a P3, 550MHz with 128MB RAM, it works fine but slows down in the end-game. I suspect that a week graphic-card(AIT rage lt 8MB(!)) is a bottleneck. I added another 128MB RAM and it helped some, not much though.

[Lucarse]

Dell Athlon 1.4GHz
128 RAM
Stealth 3D card (4mb)
WIN 2000 (you know O/S can play a part)

Runs Like the wind until i alt-tab and open my mail..... snore

[anarres]

AthlonXP1700, 512Mb RAM, GForce3 64Mb, Striped RAID 160GB HDD ATA133 , 21" FST IIYAMA, Win2k (I _hate_ XP)

Runs like a beauty in 1600x1200, 100Hz. No problem running other stuff in background.

[eden5900]

Hey Kids - Can you gujys check out "SLOW MOTION SUCKS" Thread and let me know if anyone has any ideas? All game animations run in slow mo. Thanks.
tim.

[Unspeakable Horror]

PIII 600Mhz
256 RAM
GForce 1
WinXP Pro
It works ok even on huge maps (until Industrial Era)

[Jaybe]

HP pavilion 7935 1.3GHz, 30GB HD, 384MB, but NO AGP slot so animations are sllooww. I do NOT like having to turn off animations for battles!

G4 iMac (15" screen) 800MHz, 768MB, 60GB HD, NVDA GeForce 2MX. The video speed about makes up for its slower processor speed compared to the HP.

Jesus Christ! Are you playing on a server or what? 1.5 GB of RAM

He probably just does graphic arts & video (the Mac specialties). With that much RAM he can probably have all the supporting apps open at once.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by vmxa1
AMD 1.6gz 512 mb radeon 8500 on 21" using XP PRO

'Cept for the 21" and the AMD (I've got a laptop), that's me. :P

[Mattaba]

PIII 500 192 MB RAM TNT2 32 MB.
I only play standard maps.

[alva]

amd 1400 TB(works like 1200 d*mned ECS mobo's)
256ddr
geforce 1(sdr) (the original )
19inch (sampo)
80G&40G HD's
win XP

Dell Athlon 1.4GHz
128 RAM
Stealth 3D card (4mb)
WIN 2000 (you know O/S can play a part)

Runs Like the wind until i alt-tab and open my mail..... snore

200$ and your pc is ready to fly again
(especially that stealth thing needs to be changed )
(and add a bit more MEM while your at it )

[sgrig]

I have a Celeron 650 laptop, with 384MB RAM (running Win2000). Actually before I only had 128MB of RAM, and although it handled 140x140 maps with 12 players very well, but the slowdown was tremendous for 256x256 maps with 16 civs - waiting times were upto 40-50 minutes (read a book a browse the net during that!). However now with the recent upgrade, I started a PTW game on 300x300 map with 24 players, and currently I'm in late ancient age (but with most of the map already covered with cities) and waiting time is about 90 secs. However this with about 5 windows of IE6 open, Excel, Outlook, WinAmp playing and maybe other software and while the civ turns are happening, task switching is instantaneous.

I guess for a fairer comparison I should start a more reasonable game, but I just want to see where the limit of my upgraded computer is!

[Jon Shafer]

I agree, Civ 3 and the editor are quite a bit more efficient. Especially the editor. No longer does my 1.6 gHz sit for 5 seconds every time I put a road down.

[lateralis]

There is one key reason I have 1.5 gig of RAM. because I can!!! I bought 2 512m sticks back when Ram was in the bargain basement before it went back up and then back down again. (I guess its pretty cheap again now? I wouldn't know, all my machines are maxed out ) I also play on a tiBook 800 with 768m RAM. On bigger maps, (especially huge) it can lag a bit.

lateralis

BTW Yes, I use my mac for all that "memory intesive" stuff . ie, CIV3

[Finvola]

1.4 GHZ, AMD Athlon,256MB SDRAM,60GB Ultra DMA Hard drive