Important note for anyone attempting to install Civ 4 in Win8:
YOU HAVE TO RUN THE INSTALLER IN WIN 7 COMPATIBILITY MODE.
Not just Civ.
YOU HAVE TO RUN THE INSTALLER IN WIN 7 COMPATIBILITY MODE.
Not just Civ.
fnord
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Help Thoth buy a laptop
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June 17th, 2015, 18:30
(This post was last modified: June 17th, 2015, 18:31 by antisocialmunky.)
Buy a mac, best laptops for everything you would want to do on a laptop.
In Soviet Russia, Civilization Micros You!
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.” 
*bump* Anyone know a cheap laptop for playing CIV? That's all it's going to be used for, playing CIV whilst traveling away from home.
I think the most important question is if the CPU's in the laptop are good enough to play CIV without a discrete GPU, but I've not paid attention to hardware over the past 5 years...
My 2009 Macbook Pro plays CIV great. It has an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT with only 256 MB of graphics memory. Macbooks aren't cheap laptops, but I feel like just about anything would run CIV. If it's Civ VI you're after ...
(July 19th, 2017, 08:10)Krill Wrote: *bump* Anyone know a cheap laptop for playing CIV? That's all it's going to be used for, playing CIV whilst traveling away from home. I have a six+ year old laptop I got from my wife when she got a brand new one. It lacks a dedicated graphics card and the processor is what you'd expect for a middling consumer model at the start of the decade. It handles Civ well enough on low to mid settings. Not super amazing 60 fps (or even 30-40 once it gets to the modern era on a larger map with a bunch of AIs) but functional enough to play away from home satisfactorily, and it doesn't crash or anything. In short, I'm not sure it's physically possible to buy a new computer in this day and age that can't run Civ IV.
If it's an Intel processor Krill I'd feel good with any CPU with a ~15w TDP. The ~4-6w chips have really low base clockspeeds and since Civ is a steady and not a peak load I'd be concerned about running one of them, though that might be overly cautious considering the age of the game.
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