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    Civilization 4

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by dazzacw, Jan 2, 2008.

  1. dazzacw

    dazzacw Newbie

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    Help! Will i be able to run civilization 4 on the following:

    Dell Inspiron 1721
    AMD Turion TL-60
    RAM - 2GB
    ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 integrated

    Thanks
     
    dazzacw, Jan 2, 2008
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  2. Heaven

    Heaven Newbie

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    Ofcourse, why not?

    Good luck playing the bgest game on the planet earth!!!
     
    Heaven, Jan 2, 2008
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  3. hwaforumtk

    hwaforumtk Notebook Guru

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    Well the good thing is that Civ4 does rely quite heavily on CPU and memory (you pass with flying colours). I'm not sure about the 1270 though. I remember running this on my 6600GT and it sometimes lagged although I was slightly behind in your CPU and memory specs. Try it, if you run into problems just tune down the graphics, its really an irrelevant aspect in a game like this.
     
    hwaforumtk, Jan 2, 2008
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  4. davey

    davey Notebook Guru

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    It will run Civ4...

    Ive played it for many hours at 1024x768 low settings on my old pentium m 2.0ghz, gma 900 laptop. This got 198 in 3dmark05 compared to ~900 with a 1270 card. Admittedly it was very low fps even then but its playable and you get used to it. Since its turn based it doesnt really matter anyway, i checked and i was playing fine at 10fps often. You will just have to except a bit of sluggishness scrolling on the map or zooming in especially in the later stages.

    Now i have a 8400gs (~3000 3dmark05) with a 2.0ghz core 2 and im playing it at 1400x900 high no problems. Its alot smoother that at the settings previous and i get a low of 18fps and average around 25-30fps...so totally playable.

    Youre card should probably be perfectly playable at 1280x800 low im guessing and you maybe able to get away with 1400x900 low since it would be better playing with youre 17in screen.

    Dave
     
    davey, Jan 2, 2008
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  5. washirv

    washirv Notebook Enthusiast

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    I run Civ 4 with BTS expansion on the venerable Compal CL56 -- 4 years old and running strong (kind of). If I turn all settings to lowest possible, it's very playable. It chugs more than my X64 desktop, of course, and more detail would probably make my laptop cry.

    If this can run Civ4, then I'd guess any modern notebook should be able to do it.
     
    washirv, Jan 18, 2008
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  6. hwaforumtk

    hwaforumtk Notebook Guru

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    Seems like the op is probably gone by now but to be fair a Radeon Mobility 9700 is a much more powerful GPU than an integrated Radeon 1270. No wonder your Compal can run it.
     
    hwaforumtk, Jan 18, 2008
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