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RE: Civ 5
September 15, 2014 at 6:36 pm
Hey I was just wondering what specs do you guys play with?
I'm asking this because I have a shitty laptop (for gaming), a sony vaio, with a pentium dual core 2.2Ghz and an integrated intel HD graphics card.
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RE: Civ 5
September 15, 2014 at 6:43 pm
(September 15, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Blackout Wrote: Hey I was just wondering what specs do you guys play with?
I'm asking this because I have a shitty laptop (for gaming), a sony vaio, with a pentium dual core 2.2Ghz and an integrated intel HD graphics card.
I run on a Dell XPS 17 laptop - Core i7-2630QM, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M video
I know a guy who plays on a super-low end three year old laptop. IIRC, it's got some kind of shitty Pentium CPU, 4GB of RAM, and integrated Intel video.
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RE: Civ 5
September 15, 2014 at 6:47 pm
(September 15, 2014 at 6:43 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (September 15, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Blackout Wrote: Hey I was just wondering what specs do you guys play with?
I'm asking this because I have a shitty laptop (for gaming), a sony vaio, with a pentium dual core 2.2Ghz and an integrated intel HD graphics card.
I run on a Dell XPS 17 laptop - Core i7-2630QM, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M video
I know a guy who plays on a super-low end three year old laptop. IIRC, it's got some kind of shitty Pentium CPU, 4GB of RAM, and integrated Intel video.
Yeah my processor/cpu is fine, the problem is my integrated graphics card - But I am able to play civ V just fine, it's running without lag and the graphics are pretty good.
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RE: Civ 5
September 15, 2014 at 6:50 pm
(September 15, 2014 at 6:47 pm)Blackout Wrote: (September 15, 2014 at 6:43 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I run on a Dell XPS 17 laptop - Core i7-2630QM, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M video
I know a guy who plays on a super-low end three year old laptop. IIRC, it's got some kind of shitty Pentium CPU, 4GB of RAM, and integrated Intel video.
Yeah my processor/cpu is fine, the problem is my integrated graphics card - But I am able to play civ V just fine, it's running without lag and the graphics are pretty good.
I get the impression that it's more CPU/RAM bound than GPU.
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RE: Civ 5
September 15, 2014 at 6:55 pm
(September 15, 2014 at 6:50 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (September 15, 2014 at 6:47 pm)Blackout Wrote: Yeah my processor/cpu is fine, the problem is my integrated graphics card - But I am able to play civ V just fine, it's running without lag and the graphics are pretty good.
I get the impression that it's more CPU/RAM bound than GPU.
Why? By the way, I have 4GB of RAM - And my CPU is an intel dual core, B960 2.20GhZ, to be more specific.
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RE: Civ 5
September 15, 2014 at 7:44 pm
(September 15, 2014 at 6:55 pm)Blackout Wrote: (September 15, 2014 at 6:50 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I get the impression that it's more CPU/RAM bound than GPU.
Why? By the way, I have 4GB of RAM - And my CPU is an intel dual core, B960 2.20GhZ, to be more specific.
Because it's not particularly graphics intensive and I have certainly experienced sluggish gameplay despite having very good graphics (for a laptop) - and games that are graphically intense but not computationally so run without such sluggishness. It's my impression that it's the AI that slows things down. Could be wrong, of course.
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RE: Civ 5
September 15, 2014 at 9:17 pm
I have noticed my settings are mostly on low or minimum. Luckily I don't care much about graphical quality when it comes to strategy/war games, as long as they are minimally enjoyable it's fine. The graphics are pretty satisfying on low resolution for a strategy game.
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RE: Civ 5
September 16, 2014 at 6:46 pm
Anyone tried out CIV IV?
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RE: Civ 5
September 17, 2014 at 5:19 pm
I've played them all and they are all really good with lots of replay ability. Keep in mind Beyond Earth (Civ 6) comes out Oct. 24.
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RE: Civ 5
September 17, 2014 at 5:35 pm
In the middle of a game as the Inca. Extremely powerful civ, enjoying them very much.
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