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Civ 5

I've always been a big Civ fan. Civ 3 and 4 are responsible for draining thousands of hours from my life.

I'm so disappointed with Civ 5. Hexagon tiles and single unit/tile is great. But the game is programmed so badly it's nearly unplayable for me. When I read that the game was designed to take advantage of multithreading I got excited. No more long turn waits late game right?

Wrong.

This is not someone who hasnt updated their pc in 5 years bitching about the requirements. I have a phenom quadcore and all my specs are exactly double the recommended requirements. After around 1000AD on Epic I'm waiting 1-2 minutes each turn for the AI to calculate and it quickly goes downhill from there. This is so much slower than Civ 4 it's almost a parody. Changing graphic options does nothing since the calculations in this game are almost entirely CPU based.

The game is optimized like shit and 2k should be ashamed to release a clearly unfinished product. I wanted to like this game so bad, but I can't play it on anything but the smallest map. I know people with overclocked i7s who aren't faring much better. Fuck this.
 
I'm pretty pissed myself. I like what I can see, but it is crashing too damn often - hell I can't even get past about 5 turns max. I may not have the recommended hardware, but I'm just a hair under it, and well above the minimums. I can't believe they launched this crap. They needed more testing, considering how many crash issues I'm seeing out there, and the lagging as described by Transcendence. :\ Guess I'll have to wait for a few more patches before it's playable.
 
Transcendence said:
This is not someone who hasnt updated their pc in 5 years bitching about the requirements. I have a phenom quadcore and all my specs are exactly double the recommended requirements. After around 1000AD on Epic I'm waiting 1-2 minutes each turn for the AI to calculate and it quickly goes downhill from there. This is so much slower than Civ 4 it's almost a parody. Changing graphic options does nothing since the calculations in this game are almost entirely CPU based.

The game is optimized like shit and 2k should be ashamed to release a clearly unfinished product. I wanted to like this game so bad, but I can't play it on anything but the smallest map. I know people with overclocked i7s who aren't faring much better. Fuck this.
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From what I've heard it could be either a memory leak problem or something to do with saved game files? Does it run smoothly for a while when you start playing and get progressively worse? If so you might have to wait for a patch to address the performance issues?

Edit: Maybe check out this forum - http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=409
 
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Heh haven't gotten past runni g this in directx10. I ran a world map and it was fairly slow towards the end. Never do that again. I tried multiplayer and that was broken. No crashes tho. Other than that its really fun and long. The new ui looks great. Sound track is awesome. Be interested in trying this as a lan game but I dunno.
 
i just got civ 4 about a month ago and i love it. ive started about 5 serious games and havent finished a single one because i want to win by science first! my first game i could easily sweep the other guys with tanks but i want to win by being smart not strong. i can barely run 4 on my laptop though so i wont mess with 5 till i get a pc up and running.
 
thank you sooooooo much. i just started a new game and it feels much more fleshed out now. i still havent wrapped my head around bug yet, but the more i play, the more ill figure out im sure.
 
lol
i also set my laptop on top of a fan and im now able to play civ 4 with everything on high. its like a new game!
 
So yeah, I've found a) my graphics card is bouncing on the bottom of the recommended hardware, and I can't run in Dx10 or 11 (despite latest prototype drivers, updated C++ library, etc). Been playing in Dx9...meh. Some things seem simplified, some things seem more involved. Overall, I'm almost tempted to go back to Civ 4 (also second the recommendation for BTS, I had Warlords, but BTS was better IMO).

The eye candy of Civ5 was the main draw, as the interfaces and general strategy balancing don't appeal to me. If I can't get the eye candy, I may drop back and punt until I can afford a better card (which leads to a better system rebuild :D ).


Min Reqs (for those that didn't check):
OS: Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP2 / Windows 7
Processor: Dual Core
RAM: 2 GB
8 GB free space
VGA: 256 MB ATI 2600 XT / NVidia 7900 GS or better video card or integrated graphics on the Core I3 or better.
DirectX: 9.0c


My Current Rig (dick size):
OS: Windows 7 x64
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550S (2.83GHz)
RAM: 4 GB
VGA: 320 MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS (drivers 258.96, released July 2010)
DirectX: 11


grrrr.....
 
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i love RTS but the only good game imho is still Empire Earth II. it's not turn-based and can field a SHITLOAD of units without causing much headache for a newer processor. graphics are meh cuz it's old as hell but at least there isn't much in terms of bugs, it's easy to game with a friend via hamachi, and, well, as far as i'm concerned gameplay is a lot more important in strategy games than how good everything looks.
 
Needs a mac version. I'm happy to wait, because, well that's what we do. But hurry it the fuck up!
 
I'm not much of a gamer but I do play civ and have been since the first one.

I've found that the AI cannot really handle the lack of unit stacking. That means there are just less units in general, so any human player can simply unit spam and be able to beat the AI pretty effortlessly, even on harder difficulty levels. I like the new military system, but the AI needs some touching up for it to be playable. Also, I'm waiting for Rhyes to make a mod for civ 5...
 
I've played the earlier Civ games. But I never could get into the Turn-based Strategy games. I prefer Real Time over Turn-based
 
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