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Dr. A. Cula
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Speaking of Civ1, does anyone have any idea why it runs slower on a modern computer that it did when it came out? It ran just fine on a 25Mz 80386 processor with 4MB RAM and it ran frustratingly slow on every processor I used since the first Pentiums came out. The reason I'm asking is because I have the habbit of trying to run it on every new Windows installation. Last night was the first time I ran it on XP and the first time in 10 years it had sound on the first try, without having to resort to hunting for obsolete hardware, untested drivers and/or voodoo incantations. It is painfully slow, though. After this, I dug out other games I had from that time and most of them followed the general trend of running much faster.
And I was so looking forward to replaying Civ1 once again.
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MegaCore
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Hopefully the N-Gage version will be based on Civ3. I also miss some of the things in Civ1, but if I went back, i would miss things like culture and automatic workers.
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ceroomaster
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Casnewydd, Cymru
Aug 2002 time: 05:36
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quote: Originally posted by Dr. A. Cula
Speaking of Civ1, does anyone have any idea why it runs slower on a modern computer that it did when it came out? It ran just fine on a 25Mz 80386 processor with 4MB RAM and it ran frustratingly slow on every processor I used since the first Pentiums came out. The reason I'm asking is because I have the habbit of trying to run it on every new Windows installation. Last night was the first time I ran it on XP and the first time in 10 years it had sound on the first try, without having to resort to hunting for obsolete hardware, untested drivers and/or voodoo incantations. It is painfully slow, though. After this, I dug out other games I had from that time and most of them followed the general trend of running much faster.
And I was so looking forward to replaying Civ1 once again. |
I think it might have something to do with the fact that windows no longers uses the Expanded (EMS) memory area any more, but the Extended (XMS) area, and Civ 1 required EMS memory to be run (and as a DOS program it doesn't recognise XMS).
You could try looking at the .pif properties. The fourth tab is 'Memory' set all the values to their highest and tick/check all the option boxes, it may work...
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