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Does civ3 work on your computor? (Time out:0 days after 01-11-2001, 00:42)
Yes, no significant problems
Yes, sort of, some problems
No, too cranky to be fun
No, does not run at all
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Lefty Scaevola is offline Lefty Scaevola
Emperor
San Antonio TX USA
Oct 2000
time: 23:15
Question  Old Post 01-11-2001 00:39
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Does civ3 work on your computor Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

Trying to get a statistical smaple here about its bugginess.
Please slo if you have the time post your result with a description of your platform.

Boris Godunov is offline Boris Godunov
King
Portland, OR
Aug 2001
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  Old Post 01-11-2001 02:26
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Enter the AD-FREE zone

Celeron 400 Mhz
128 MB ram
16 MB Banshee video card (or whatever it's called...)
after install, had about 250 MB HD space left

I consider my system kinda low-end, at least compared to what's out here with most gamers.

I have no significant problems. One minor (to me at least) is that the music skips. I usually turn off the music anyway, so it's not a problem. Since I haven't seen anyone else report the problem, I am assuming it's a quirk of my system and not a game bug.

Cheers.

Faeelin is offline Faeelin
Chieftain
Tau Ceti
Oct 2001
time: 05:15
  Old Post 01-11-2001 02:28
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Got spare money?

tbird 1.2 ghz, 512 ramm, radeon ddr 64 mb.

It crashes constantly.

Acemo is offline Acemo
Warlord
Eastern US
May 2001
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  Old Post 01-11-2001 02:30
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PIII 500MHz
256 MB RAM
GeForce2 32 MB video
plenty of hard drive space (> 30GB)
no problems at all

Lechuck99 is offline Lechuck99
Settler
Ohio
Oct 2001
time: 00:15
  Old Post 01-11-2001 02:46
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Desktop
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PIII/500
128Mb Ram
Voodoo 3/3000
10GB HD
No Probs

Laptop
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PIII/600
128MB RAM
Unknown Video
5GBHD
No Probs


MDA is offline MDA
Settler
Maryland, USA
Mar 2000
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  Old Post 01-11-2001 02:58
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1.8 Ghz Pentium4
Geforce 3 64Mb
512 RDRAM
80Gb Hard drive

no audio problems

video - strange glittery dust clouds periodically pass over some of my flood plains - I think its supposed to do that.

Dis is offline Dis
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 2000
time: 21:15
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Suffering from ads?

mine was a yes (first choice)

It was orginally a Sony P2 300 with 64 megs of RAM if that matters.

It has been uprgraded to a P3 700 processor, 256 megs of ram, voodoo3 3000 video card, fortissimoII sound card with 5 speaker surround sound setup, 13.6 gig hard drive (should have got bigger), 12 (I think- I never upgraded it, never run games from cd) speed cd rom.

dainbramaged13 is offline dainbramaged13
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Dumbass
Mar 2000
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works fine, a little audio skiping once every couple of minutes when a lot of action going on

Lefty Scaevola is offline Lefty Scaevola
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San Antonio TX USA
Oct 2000
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  Old Post 01-11-2001 07:36
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Seems to be running alright so far forthe large majority.

Barnacle Bill is offline Barnacle Bill
Warlord
Somewhere on the wine dark sea
Oct 2001
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If I can actually get to the openning game menu, it works great from then on. However, most of the time when I launch it I get an "invalid page fault" right after that first screen showing the still of the tower of babel. Originally, I had something between a 1 in 5 and 1 in 10 chance of getting past that. If I got into the openning movie, it worked fine (got to about 650 AD in my first game). Then, based on what tech support told me, I assumed my antiquated sound card was causing the problems (latest available drivers still from 1999, too old to be DX 8.0a compliant). So, I bought a new sound card. Now if it gets past the "invalid page fault" it locks up on the intro movie (usually just a white screen, sometimes it gets the Infogrames logo drawn before it chokes).

SYSTEM:

AMD Athlon T-bird 900MHz
Abit KT7A (Via Apollo KT133A chipset) motherboard
128 MB ram
Geforce2 GTS video card (MSI) w/latest Detonator 21.83 drivers
Soundblaster PCI512 (original card)
Soundblaster Audigy MP3+ (new sound card) - CD drivers are the latest

SYSTEM OPERATOR:

Bummed

dexter4dxm is offline dexter4dxm
Warlord
CA, USA
Jul 2001
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400 mhz celeron
128 mb ram
voodoo 3 2000 16mb


it runs fine, however when i played a huge map with all the civs it kinda took awhile in between turns when the computer was going. does it take long for you guys?

Uncle Thade is offline Uncle Thade
Chieftain
Vancouver
Aug 2001
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  Old Post 01-11-2001 10:51
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PII 400
256 MB SDRAM
lots of HD space
ATI 64MB Radeon

Nary a problem yet and it's been running straight for 24 hours now. Scrolling does suck a bit but nothing other than gameplay issues.

Uncle Thade

Fugi the Great is offline Fugi the Great
Warlord
Sheboygan,WI,USA
Mar 1999
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Installation was fine, opening movie worked fine. Planet configuration worked okay, then the program aborted. Reboot to make sure that no extras left from installation, same thing. If they don't fix it fast, I'm asking for a refund. Maybe then I'll try it again two years from now when its only ten bucks on the "old software" shelf at Walmart.

P3 800
512 Meg RAM
64 Meg Radeon
harddrive space for days

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