hey everyone, have not posted here in a long time i have been very busy with other things, and i just got an emachines m6805 laptop from a friend of mine and i was wondering if it would be able to run civ4 ok? i checked out the system requirements for it and it seems like it should do ok. is anyone else here running civ4 on a laptop or tell me if my m6805 should be good to go or not?
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Civilization 4
- Thread starter AMD_Gamer
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It should run on the laptop you mention fine. There is a slight issue with ATI graphic users, but Firaxis is looking into it. If you have some additional funds, you may want to bump the RAM up to 1GB.
Recommended: P4 2.6 GHZ 512 MB ram RADEON 9600 or better
Recommended: P4 2.6 GHZ 512 MB ram RADEON 9600 or better
Firaxis is currently looking into the startup issues people are experiencing.
There appear to be two seperate issues which lead to the "Failed to Initialize Renderer" bug.
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1) When installing Civ 4 you MUST install the version of DirectX 9 that shows up. If you get a window asking you to upgrade you NEED to update to the new version. Aside from Civ 4 this version is only available through the DirectX Development kit and does not come with other games or with the user DirectX you find through Microsoft.
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If you still get the error...
2) People who are receiving a failure to initialize error on startup that own ATI cards should do the following. This has worked on every test case where this problem was experienced.
1. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall the listing titled ATI Graphics Driver
2. Once uninstalled they need to download the latest version of the Windows Catalyst Driver 5.10
Windows XP & Windows 2000:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...ge&folderID=27
3. REBOOT
4. Retry launching the game
chillywilly007
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I must be lucky.... No problems with Civ 4.
P4 1.6a
768 megs ram
radeon 9500 pro 5.10 cats
too early for my opinion of the game, need more time to play. But I can tell you this much: it's the same ole Civ....
P4 1.6a
768 megs ram
radeon 9500 pro 5.10 cats
too early for my opinion of the game, need more time to play. But I can tell you this much: it's the same ole Civ....
PCJ said:Anyone have an idea how a Intel GMA900 would run it? It's within the system requirements, but I would like to run at 1280x800.
It is worth a shot, but integrated video typically does not do well with demanding games. Since this GMA900 takes up to 256MB of system memory, you may want to install more RAM and then increase the allocation for the integrated video chipset.