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Game Forum / Strategy Games / Civilization / July 2008Playing Civ4 on laptop?
Buying myself a laptop soon, and I want to make sure I can play Civ4 on it. Any of you guys playing Civ4 on a laptop? Not really worried about CPU, RAM, etc, as those will all exceed spec. What I wonder about is whether the onboard graphics card will be able to handle it, as it is an expensive pain to try to change/upgrade graphics card on a laptop. The included graphics on the Dell laptops I'm looking at is an Intel X3100 graphics accelerator. I could upgrade that to a 128 MB or 256 MB NVIDIA card, but at extra cost and I'm worried about the impact on heat and battery life. If you are playing Civ4 on a laptop, what kind of graphics card do you have in it? Thanks, BP >Buying myself a laptop soon, and I want to make sure I can play Civ4 >on it. Any of you guys playing Civ4 on a laptop? [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >BP I bought DEll's XPS 1710 last July specifically to run World of Warcraft and CIV4 when I travel. You can google the specs on line. As I recall I maxed most everything out and understood that it would be obsolete in 36 months. While pricey, and heavy (24lbs) it runs both games almost as well as my Falcon Northwest desktop. - redvet >I bought DEll's XPS 1710 last July specifically to run World of >Warcraft and CIV4 when I travel. You can google the specs on line. As >I recall I maxed most everything out and understood that it would be >obsolete in 36 months. While pricey, and heavy (24lbs) it runs both >games almost as well as my Falcon Northwest desktop. - redvet Thanks, but I think the extra weight and cost would rule that one out for me. This will be primarily a work laptop, I'd just like to be able to run some games on it, too - when stuck overnight after a conference, for example. BP >>I bought DEll's XPS 1710 last July specifically to run World of >>Warcraft and CIV4 when I travel. You can google the specs on line. As [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >BP Yeah, I agree....though if you are in the graphics design field you might find some justication for it - but then you'ld have a Mac :) - redvet On Tue 10 Jun 2008 11:08:56a, BP (reply@newsgroup.please) wrote > Buying myself a laptop soon, and I want to make sure I can play > Civ4 on it. Any of you guys playing Civ4 on a laptop? [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thanks, I installed it on my Dell Inspiron 1450 w/ Vista and it runs more stable than my XP desktop. Didn't even need to get a graphics card, unlike I did with the desktop.  Signaturewjlmuttatyeahwhodotcom "I before E except after C, and E before N in chicken" >I installed it on my Dell Inspiron 1450 w/ Vista and it runs more >stable than my XP desktop. Didn't even need to get a graphics >card, unlike I did with the desktop. Cool! Good to hear. BP Hi there, > Buying myself a laptop soon, and I want to make sure I can play Civ4 > on it. Any of you guys playing Civ4 on a laptop? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > If you are playing Civ4 on a laptop, what kind of graphics card do you > have in it? I have CIV IV BTS running on a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E8410 with Nvidia Graphics GeForce 8400M 128 MB. Feels a bit sluggish at times in 1600x1200 graphics mode (TFT monitor) or 1680x1050 mode (laptop tft screen), but otherwise working just fine. Best Regards, Martin SignatureMartin Boening, mboen@t-online.de, Linux Registered User #258205 KERNEL: A part of an operating system that preserves the medieval traditions of sorcery and black art. >I have CIV IV BTS running on a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E8410 with Nvidia >Graphics GeForce 8400M 128 MB. Feels a bit sluggish at times in 1600x1200 >graphics mode (TFT monitor) or 1680x1050 mode (laptop tft screen), but >otherwise working just fine. Do you have the graphics option set to high, medium, or low? Thanks, BP Hi there, > Do you have the graphics option set to high, medium, or low? its all set to high, which of course contributes to slowness here and there... Have fun, Martin SignatureMartin Boening, mboen@t-online.de, Linux Registered User #258205 KERNEL: A part of an operating system that preserves the medieval traditions of sorcery and black art. >Buying myself a laptop soon, and I want to make sure I can play Civ4 >on it. Any of you guys playing Civ4 on a laptop? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >If you are playing Civ4 on a laptop, what kind of graphics card do you >have in it? Runs fine on mine, Intel 950, which isn't as good as what you're looking at. Can't max settings, but that doesn't matter as I'm happy as long as it doesn't use single-unit graphics and has animations, which does work. OTOH, if you're serious about gaming, either ATI or Nvidia are the way to go, better than anything Intel. Signature*-__Jeffery Jones__________| *Starfire* |____________________-* ** Muskego WI Access Channel 14/25 <http://www.execpc.com/~jeffsj/mach7/> *Starfire Design Studio* <http://www.starfiredesign.com/> |
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