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Title: computer question Post by: Axlfreek on June 01, 2007, 10:57:44 AM I just bought Civilization IV and i have been playing it on my roomates computer, but the further i progress the slower the game has got. And it does nothing but lags and I have to wait 5 minutes to do anything. Is there anything I can do to make the game run faster ? should I buy more memory ?
Title: Re: computer question Post by: meanmachine73 on June 01, 2007, 10:58:45 AM Memory is the Key......What are you running at the moment?
Title: Re: computer question Post by: Axlfreek on June 01, 2007, 11:01:42 AM at this point, i'd say below minimum requirments :P
Title: Re: computer question Post by: meanmachine73 on June 01, 2007, 11:08:30 AM Hey Bill Gates better be carefull, theres a new kid on the block.... :beer:
Take it easy. Title: Re: computer question Post by: Prometheus on June 01, 2007, 12:01:41 PM playing the hell outta Civ4...... and i have the same damn issue.......though mine never hits 5 mins of lag time..... but i think the coding for the game is off a bit..... mine hits at about 1700AD playing on a huge world...... and i have a kicking system..... well for most of the games I play its kicking and runs em fine..... im only runnin 1gb of ram..... sigh only 1 gig...... i can remember when if you had 16mb of ram people thought you were crazy..... lol..... im thinking that an extra gig will fix the prob......
Title: Re: computer question Post by: pilferk on June 01, 2007, 01:13:11 PM playing the hell outta Civ4...... and i have the same damn issue.......though mine never hits 5 mins of lag time..... but i think the coding for the game is off a bit..... mine hits at about 1700AD playing on a huge world...... and i have a kicking system..... well for most of the games I play its kicking and runs em fine..... im only runnin 1gb of ram..... sigh only 1 gig...... i can remember when if you had 16mb of ram people thought you were crazy..... lol..... im thinking that an extra gig will fix the prob...... 1.5 GB seems to be the point where it got better, at least for me (2 GB if you're running DDR, because you hae no choice). My processor wasn't anything all that special, either. AT 1 GB, it would do exactly what you're describing. I added an extra 512 MB and it seemed to completely smooth out...probably because it has to hit the Virtual memory and cache a lot less. A couple weekends ago, I bit the bullet and bought a new PC....with 2 GB's of Ram. I think gaming people are going to have to start looking at THAT number as the minimum VERY soon. Title: Re: computer question Post by: Lucky on June 02, 2007, 02:27:25 PM save, and restart the game
Title: Re: computer question Post by: MadmanDan on June 02, 2007, 02:36:45 PM Goddamnit, 2 gigs of RAM !!
Funny how technology keeps advancing, but games are more and more boring and unoriginal... Title: Re: computer question Post by: mrlee on June 02, 2007, 02:38:54 PM Goddamnit, 2 gigs of RAM !! Funny how technology keeps advancing, but games are more and more boring and unoriginal... not neccessarily, STALKER is ownage. |