resurfacing for air

[rone]

After about 48 hours of Civ4, i'll have to catch up to see what i've been missing.  I will say this: the so-called "minimum" and "recommended" system requirements, as far as RAM goes, are a joke.  The game sucks up 410 MB of RAM, and i saw it hogging over 700 MB of virtual memory after i exited the game.  When your stripped-down Win2K installation uses 180 MB of memory just sitting there, it's inescapable that you need a minimum of 640 MB, and you should really get a gigabyte in there to be comfy.

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a better patch

[mjlewis.livejournal.com]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145105

it makes a huge difference in terms of memory hoggitude.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I am loath to install a third-party patch.

I was too

[mjlewis.livejournal.com]

especially one coming out of Russia. But Apolyton is a pretty well-trafficed Civ4 site and there are a ton of responses to the thread, so I sucked it up and did it, as have a couple of my friends, and we've been pleased so far.

I can't say for certain that it's not eating out my RAM from the inside, but I'm happy with what it did for Civ4.