Civ 4 - Excited? [UPDATED pt.2 - Game is out & now PATCHED! Share your thoughts.]

Mine is on its way from EBgames.com. Scheduled to be on my doorstop tomorrow afternoon. :) I'm getting a bit concerned. I'm running everything off my laptop right now and it has an ATI video card - so it'll probably run a bit slow as I don't meet the recommended specs.

Pentium M 1.6
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo Card (128 version)
1 Gig of Ram

I hope I don't have problems or they at least release a patch soon. Been looking forward to playing this game for many months. If it doesn't go smoothly I'm going to have some choice 4 letter words...
 

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And Gamespot's review - a 9.4!

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/civilizationiv/review.html

Wow! Same score as IGN. I'm a little creeped out now, to be honest. Both places love the game. That means I'll either love it (likely) or be really dissappointed because of the hype.

Oh, and I just found this on the gamespy forums for ATI card users -

http://www.forumplanet.com/planetcivilization/topic.asp?fid=15498&tid=1771119

And once I get the game - Anyone interested in getting a multiplayer game going? The multi is supposed to be the best yet.
 

John Crichton said:
And once I get the game - Anyone interested in getting a multiplayer game going? The multi is supposed to be the best yet.
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I'd be interested if I could get the damn thing to run. My problem is not the game, but the version of Directx 9.0c that it comes with, it FORCES you to put it on your system or the game won't run. So when I try and install the game, the direct x install come up and I run that, but I get "A cabinet required for installtion cannot be trusted" error box, and I have to click on that and it says installtion failed. No option to retry, ect. . Why they force you to do that??? :( :( :(
 

Hmmm. There seems to be 3 basic problems with the game people are having.

1) What Ken has, which is due to Civ 4 requiring a super-duper new version of Direct X 9.0c. (Apparenlty there are lots of versions of 9.0c. Which doesn't make sense to me...)

2) An unknown problem for people with ATI cards. There doesn't seem to be a common thread, except most people with 9700s seem to be able to get it to work. Some people with one model can get it work, others can't.

3) Some older cards that do support T&L (which is supposed to be requirement) actually don't work properly. You also might need at least Shader 1.0 support.
 

trancejeremy said:
1) What Ken has, which is due to Civ 4 requiring a super-duper new version of Direct X 9.0c. (Apparenlty there are lots of versions of 9.0c. Which doesn't make sense to me...)
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This is Microsoft we are talkng about, when has Microsoft made sense?
 


DaveMage said:
First impression is....I'm not sure I like it....
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That was my initial thought with Civ 3. But after learning the game, it is still one of my all time favs. I have faith I will love this one too.
I managed to get it installed ok, no problems there. I did play about 10 minutes of the tutorial, so far no run problems. Though I do have a GeForce (this is just one more reason to justify my hatred of ATI! :D )
While I am looking forward to some MP action, it's gonna take me many a game to wrap my brain around all these newer rules.
 



mrtauntaun said:
That was my initial thought with Civ 3. But after learning the game, it is still one of my all time favs. I have faith I will love this one too.
I managed to get it installed ok, no problems there. I did play about 10 minutes of the tutorial, so far no run problems. Though I do have a GeForce (this is just one more reason to justify my hatred of ATI! :D )
While I am looking forward to some MP action, it's gonna take me many a game to wrap my brain around all these newer rules.
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I still have to learn things about it, like the value of missionaries, etc.

One of the things I don't like so far, is that the number of villiages that provide freebies seemed very small on my first run-through. Also, did I understand it correctly that you are limited in the number of wonders you are permitted to build?

I hope that isn't the case...
 

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