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Fayceless on 11 June 2008
Kasz216 said:
Fayceless said:
Hah. My new computer (with crappy on-board video (Radeon X1200)) can't play it, but this 5 year old PC sitting in my room doing nothing atm, can technically run it. Meh, all I need is a low end card and I'm good to go.

However, I wouldn't trust the old PC to run it, the motherboard is in such awful shape I don't know how it still works.


Anyways, this is about what I expected from Maxis, nice low requirements. Great for me, I don't buy the flashy fancy FPS games or whatever. I play turn-based strategy, Sim City and stuff like that. I don't have to spend lots of money on video cards. :D

Civ 4 had some pretty healthy specs when it was released i think didn't it? I remember my old computer could run it... but by the time you got mid game it took like a half hour between turns.


 Heh... I say I'm a 4X fan, but then I remember I actually only own 2 games.  Alpha Centauri and Galactic Civilizations 2.



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okr on 11 June 2008
    For Mac users (from the link in OP): 
  •  MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 
  • Spore requires at least the following:
    • Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
    • Intel Core Duo Processor
    • 1024 MB RAM
    • ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
    • At least 4.7GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for creations.*
    • Intel Integrated Chipset GMA X3100
    • Dual 2.0GHz CPUs, or 1.7GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
  • Supported:
    • ATI Radeon series
      • X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600
    • NVIDIA GeForce series
      • 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800
    • Intel Extreme Graphics
      • GMA X3100

    • This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac).

Kasz216 on 11 June 2008
Fayceless said:
Kasz216 said:
Fayceless said:
Hah. My new computer (with crappy on-board video (Radeon X1200)) can't play it, but this 5 year old PC sitting in my room doing nothing atm, can technically run it. Meh, all I need is a low end card and I'm good to go.

However, I wouldn't trust the old PC to run it, the motherboard is in such awful shape I don't know how it still works.


Anyways, this is about what I expected from Maxis, nice low requirements. Great for me, I don't buy the flashy fancy FPS games or whatever. I play turn-based strategy, Sim City and stuff like that. I don't have to spend lots of money on video cards. :D

Civ 4 had some pretty healthy specs when it was released i think didn't it? I remember my old computer could run it... but by the time you got mid game it took like a half hour between turns.


Heh... I say I'm a 4X fan, but then I remember I actually only own 2 games. Alpha Centauri and Galactic Civilizations 2.


Alpha Centauri rules. Assuming you mean Cid Meyer's Alpha Centauri. Wonder if that runs on vista. I wouldn't mind going back and playing a game of that.

If i wasn't so enthralled with being able to play current day countries on a real earth map i'd probably of liked it more then Civ 2.  With Alien Crossfire expansion that game ruled.



superchunk on 11 June 2008

cool. I'm all good with this.

This game is probably a 1st week purchase.



epsilon72 on 11 June 2008

Oh well....the Frankenstein computer I'm upgrading won't be able to run it, sadly...
(500mhz P3 --> 1.2ghz Celeron, 16mb Riva TNT --> geforce 6200, 6 hundred something MB ram)

My other computers though.....see SamuelRSmith's post.



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PS360ForTheWin on 11 June 2008
salaminizer said:

Windows XP

  • 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 128 MB graphics card, with Pixel Shader 2.0 support
  • At least 6GB of free hard drive space

Windows Vista

  • 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
  • 768 MB RAM
  • 128 MB graphics card, with Pixel Shader 2.0 support
  • At least 6GB of free hard drive space

Supported Graphics Cards

ATI Radeon series

  • 9500, 9600, 9800
  • X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
  • X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
  • 2400, 2600, 2900
  • 3650, 3850

NVIDIA GeForce series

  • FX 5900, FX 5950 (not supported in Vista)
  • 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800
  • 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
  • 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800

Intel Extreme Graphics (Integrated)

  • GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slowly. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts, such as the 945GU, GML, and GMS, will not perform adequately.

Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily.

Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn't listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53076

but.. but... people say you need to spend $1000 to play new games...

and even though I'm totally against it, I'll have to buy the Creature Creator :(

 


 yay i can run it!