Civ 4 demo

[Daehawk]

Anyone tried it? says 100 turns..is that enough to see how the game is?

[CeeKay]

I downloaded it and tried it.  100 turns was enough to prove to me that the game had the original 'Civ' feel that 3 didn't have.

[Daehawk]

Ill try it once I figure out what to delete. Got 120gigs full right now..barely got room to grab the Quake 4 demo thats just gone up.

[Dante Rising]

Strange...on my midrange system the game crawled at 1024x768x32. I was getting about 6 frames per second after the second turn. So I can lay Doom 3 on this setup, but not Civ 4.  <shrug>


AMD Sempron 2800
512MB  DDR 400
Geforce 6600GT
Win XP Home

[Ranulf]

Strange...on my midrange system the game crawled at 1024x768x32. I was getting about 6 frames per second after the second turn. So I can lay Doom 3 on this setup, but not Civ 4.  <shrug>


AMD Sempron 2800
512MB  DDR 400
Geforce 6600GT
Win XP Home

Might be your low ram. It ran fairly well on my 2100 with a plain 6600, but 1GB system ram.

[EddieA]

I have an Athlon 2200, a Radeon 9550 video card, and 512 MB RAM, and it ran very smoothly on mine.

[Gromit]

I found that disabling AA on my system helped immensely.  It crawled when I first tried it.

Athlon 3400+
1GB RAM
Nvidia 6600GT

[Exodor]

The full game runs fine on my aging 1.6 Ghz PIV with 512 MB of PC-133 RAM once I turned graphics down to "medium".   I can't see a difference in quality, but it went from bogging down in the end-game to running nice and smoothly.

EDIT - you might also turn off the in-game music and see if that helps speed things up.