OT: Civ 3 Complete Edition or Civ 4?

Yimboli · #1 November 19th, 2006, 12:57 PM

Civ 4 is absolutely amazing. Have the previous graphics card issues with nvidia been fixed? I use ATI and its always worked well, but I think for at least a year after release it crashed a lot with nvidia cards, caused a LOT of heartache amongst the populace...

I can't recommend civ4 enough. Plus it's incredibly moddable!!!

StarShadow · #2 November 19th, 2006, 01:06 PM

I'd reccomend playing more Alpha Centauri, Civ 3 isn't too bad though. I wouldn't reccomend Civ 4 though, it's a complete disappointment, which is a shame because I own all the civ games except civ 4.

Fyron · #3 November 19th, 2006, 03:53 PM

The moddability of Civ4 puts SE5 to shame. Too bad it still has that shallow Civ gameplay. :-\

tesco samoa · #4 November 21st, 2006, 01:48 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:
The moddability of Civ4 puts SE5 to shame. Too bad it still has that shallow Civ gameplay. :-\

Too bad its a CIV Game

Phoenix-D · #5 November 21st, 2006, 01:52 AM

Alpha Centauri runs fine on dual-core machines. Just ignore the not-compatable box; it does that on all my machines, and they all play it fine.

If you do have problems, add
[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1

to the bottom of your alpha centauri.ini file.

Dosbox won't work because AC is a Windows game, Fyron.

PDF · #6 November 19th, 2006, 07:20 PM

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Yimboli said:
Civ 4 is absolutely amazing. Have the previous graphics card issues with nvidia been fixed? I use ATI and its always worked well, but I think for at least a year after release it crashed a lot with nvidia cards, caused a LOT of heartache amongst the populace...

I can't recommend civ4 enough. Plus it's incredibly moddable!!!

In my experience it was the reverse, ie compat problems with ATI in the first game release, then fixed. I've had an ATI 9600 since 3 weeks ago, then a GF6600, and no problems at all with the later !

Caduceus · #7 November 19th, 2006, 10:33 PM

Civ 4.

I have the first edition of both games. Aside from graphical problems and some quality controls (play disc 2 - really use disc 1) I like Civ 4 better.

Kana · #8 November 20th, 2006, 02:04 AM

Civ 4 has many fine elements. The multiplay is practically solid, and could only dream that SE4 or SE5 would play as well. There are more mods and such than you can shake a stick at.

Fyron · #9 November 20th, 2006, 04:23 AM

But the mods that are worth looking at can be counted on a hand or two.

Atrocities · #10 November 20th, 2006, 06:11 PM

Civ3 gave me nightmares. Literally, dark depressing horrifying nightmares. I still cannot play it to this day or even think about it without being filled with complete dispair.