My comp runs Rome Total War with Barbarian Invasions without a hiccup unless Atilla brings his extended family and everyone they know to battle, and even then only lags when on high speed setting, yet Civ 4 locks up, jerks around and generally pisses me off.

I love the game, I hate the fact that it won't run properly despite being turn based.

Hmmm, I haven't had any problems with the game.... I run with all options on high at res set at 1600x1200. Never studders and has NEVER CTD once...

Thanks for the link, I actually found that this weekend... Great site.

I'll have to say Civ 2 was one of my favorites of all time, and I still haven't played 3. I'm kind of afraid of having to learn everything all over again, because it took forever to get good at 2. How bad is the learning curve here???

Not very bad, and fun as hell (I also was a big Civ 2 fan...I did play Civ 3, but not for very long...). But hold off until a patch or two comes out or you may be a very frustrated Civ4 owner.

well, i thought it was terrible


such a dissapointment

even on "epic" it doesnt retain the style and epicness of civ2. it's way too fast and small.


they got rid of everything cool, and eveything they added was pretty minor (government styles ala alpha centauri)

AC with alien expansion is still the best sid meier game out there

bar none

Yeah they took out a lot of the touches that were in three. BUT they did improve the battle system and the corruption. The religion system is neat. Seems like they removed a bunch of the endgame military units, but I don't know what. There also doesn't seem to be much of an editor so the chances of a decent mod community sprouting up are probably nil. I'll probably give this another week or so but then it's getting ebayed.

Sound like a patch should be released on monday or soon there after (via civ4.com)

hope they fix performance degredation.

My god, Firaxis/Take Two can't even release a patch without loads of bugs. :lol:

Earlier today a patch was released briefly through the game's autoupdate but pulled soon after. Pathetic.

Well the final patch 1.09 came on on the 26th. you can get it through Advanced updates, so far for me it is working slightly quicker

from what i've read though the patch doesnt help out with the Radeon crashes

This has to be the most addicting game I have ever played.....

Now don't get me wrong I have all of the earlier incarnations of the game, but this one has the right amount of enhancements......

The graphics are better and the overall presentation of the game is better.

Thankfully they brought back the Wonder movies.....

I hope they will do more in future releases......

\Quick note to all civ 4 addicts out there who found the game still too fast on epic, with the new 1.52 patch there is a new speed setting that is three times as long. Very fun :D