Civilization 5 + 8GB of RAM vs 4GB of RAM

I had installed Civ5 and played a bit on 4GB of RAM but I did the biggest map + + the longest game. It got really slow in between turns and at some points the tiles would turn into red/white checkers. I remember it had a huge RAM requirement as well.

Would increasing to 8GB help or is this more of a VRAM issue?

 

I loved Civ III and Civ IV but I never bought Civ 5 for reasons like these. I was going to buy it when it was released and all I read what a buggy mess the game was. It would not surprise me if this game actually needed 8GB to run a TBS game LOL.

If Sid Meier ever gets to fixing this game properly I will buy it. Every time I see it on sale I think of comments similar to yours that keeps me from buying it.

 

Yeah I'm at 4GB and it was using a LOT of it.

 

I've read that it's linked to DX11.

 

That's insane that a TBS/tile based game would need 4GB to run and would take more if you gave it. Thankfully I held onto my copy of Civ IV Complete. I was planning on trading it in when I heard Civ 5 was about to be released.

Your problem almost sounds like a memory leak and I would lean on it being the GPU mem but at this point I can't say when 4GB isn't even enough to run it. What kind of GPU do you have btw?

Yeah I forgot about that, is that what your running it in? Have you tried DX9?

 

Can't even remember because I haven't had it installed in such a long time.

 

Try running it in DX9 and see if the game runs better.

 

IT RUNS MUCH BETTER, there is no other way to play this game

 

Civ IV and V are different games. I would never get rid of Civ IV!

 

What were the advantages to run it in DX11? Kind of silly on the developers part for TBS game.

 

new effects that were implemented in dx11, however since the code is poor its not felt as an improvement, but as a ***** feature