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#1
December 10th, 2006, 04:28 PM
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| Will Civilization 4 work on a 1.42 eMac? No.1 son has a 2005 eMac 1.42. G4 with 1GB RAM. He has Civ3, would like Civ4, but the site says that system requirements are 1.8GHz G5 with a recommended 2GHz. Will Civ4 not work on the eMac, work erratically or just be a bit slow? I don't want to buy a present that is useless or virtually unusable...  |
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#2
December 10th, 2006, 04:38 PM
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| I doubt that it'd be very useable (if it lets you install at all), the requirements are for a system about two times as fast - as a minimum. I ran the demo on a 2 GHz G5, and it was a bit heavy.
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#4
December 27th, 2006, 09:42 AM
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| Try Rise of Nations Gold edition. It's a fun version of Age of Empires. They say it's a mix of Age of Empires and Civilization but it's really more like Age of Empires with some more features and some more fun worked in it (imo). On topic, I tested Civ IV on a Powermac DP G4 2x1.25Ghz with 2 Gb of RAM, a fast HD and a 256 Mb Gcard and the game was borderline unbearably slow, and all but enjoyable at that speed (trying it on a Macbook 2Ghz Intel Core Duo 2 soon though I'll keep you posted, maybe your son would like a Macbook to go with Civ 4?  ) |
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#5
December 28th, 2006, 02:42 PM
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| Works pretty good on a MacBook Pro with the 2.33gHz Core2Duo chip / 2GB RAM / 256MB X1600 video. Doubt it would even install on the eMac. When I bought the game, I didn't pay attention to the requirements and tried installing on the last G4 Powerbook (1.67gHz, 2GB RAM, 128MB Video) and it wouldn't allow it.
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#7
February 22nd, 2007, 02:00 PM
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| I have a Mac Mini G4 1.25 Ghz ... The video memory was the biggest problem for me when it came to Civ 4. Civ 3 complete works great. Rise of Nations gold runs wonderfully and is excellent. Sims 2 and Sim City are a little slow. Railroad Tycoon 3 rocks  There are more games I could have tested but I'm holding off buying any more until I get my new mac |
