Civilization V

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-06-29T18:09:20.000Z

TheWombat:

Heh, maybe. Actually, I rather like the animations. I was just wondering if turning them off would speed things up. I tend to be impatient. Then again, that’s probably why I lose a lot!

What is your operating system? If it’s Vista/7 change your scheme to “basic” and reduce some of the background effects (I’d turn everything off except Font Smoothing). If you are low on RAM you’ll notice it.

Alternatively (or in addition to as needed), turn off Antialiasing and shadows. Those seem like the biggest hitters on your frames.

wisefool · 2011-06-29T23:06:10.000Z

Setup Game
Advanced Setup
Scroll down
Quick Combat (tick on)

I kinda the game realized I tick it on every single time. I hate abandoning a nice start when I realize animations were left on.

rezaf · 2011-06-30T00:06:39.000Z

Chris Nahr:

That’s not what he wrote and what I quoted.

Fair enough, maybe I just misenterpreted what you wrote instead.

Anyway, since I’m in the “this is unfixable” camp (or maybe regardless?), I think it’s actually for the best that they concentrate on you guys with their fixing and tweaking - at least those people (not exactly few) that already DO enjoy the game can benefit from these efforts this way.

Still, I wish they’d at least release the DLL or maybe even just fix the modding tools. Unfortunately, by now I think neither is probable. :(

rezaf

Chris_Nahr · 2011-06-30T00:12:37.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

What is your operating system? If it’s Vista/7 change your scheme to “basic” and reduce some of the background effects (I’d turn everything off except Font Smoothing). If you are low on RAM you’ll notice it.

Er, did you miss his system specs? A Core i7 930 with 8 GB RAM and a GTX 460 won’t have any trouble with Aero… or with any in-game graphics options for that matter.

Regardless, turning off Aero shouldn’t make any difference while running a full-screen DirectX game that doesn’t use the Windows desktop at all. Did you actually notice the game run faster on your system just by turning off Aero?

wisefool:

Setup Game
Advanced Setup
Scroll down
Quick Combat (tick on)

I kinda the game realized I tick it on every single time. I hate abandoning a nice start when I realize animations were left on.

Yeah, you can only disable animations from the startup menu which is annoying, and those “advanced” settings still aren’t saved which is twice as annoying.

Chris_Nahr · 2011-06-30T00:19:40.000Z

Strollen:

The changes they made to the social policies are terrific. Honor now is a viable alternative tree, but all of the earlier trees have been rebalanced. I can honestly say the all of the social policy now provide interesting choices.

I agree, this is the first time since the initial release where all three starter trees are viable, even if you don’t follow through on some specific strategy. Picking Honor is no longer a complete loss if you don’t end up going for a domination victory. Making the last three trees mutually exclusive was also a smart idea since Freedom/Order used to be such a no-brainer combination.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-06-30T03:45:15.000Z

Chris Nahr:

Er, did you miss his system specs? A Core i7 930 with 8 GB RAM and a GTX 460 won’t have any trouble with Aero… or with any in-game graphics options for that matter.

Regardless, turning off Aero shouldn’t make any difference while running a full-screen DirectX game that doesn’t use the Windows desktop at all. Did you actually notice the game run faster on your system just by turning off Aero?

Oops, missed that.

But yeah, back when I only had 2gb of RAM I turned off Aero and it made a HUGE difference. I know Windows is supposed to be managing that, but it seems to do a poor job (though this was Vista, perhaps Windows 7 is better, but now I have 5gb of RAM and it’s not an issue).

TheWombat · 2011-06-30T05:22:24.000Z

Thanks, guys. I figured out “quick combat” meant “no animations” after I posted, but it wasn’t intuitive. I’ll give it a go.

Chris_Nahr · 2011-06-30T07:46:10.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

But yeah, back when I only had 2gb of RAM I turned off Aero and it made a HUGE difference. I know Windows is supposed to be managing that, but it seems to do a poor job (though this was Vista, perhaps Windows 7 is better, but now I have 5gb of RAM and it’s not an issue).

Huh, that’s interesting. Sounds like Vista consumed a lot of memory for Aero stuff while the game was running, even though it wasn’t actually being used. Windows 7 is supposed to generally reduce the memory consumption of Aero, though.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-06-30T11:14:35.000Z

Chris Nahr:

Huh, that’s interesting. Sounds like Vista consumed a lot of memory for Aero stuff while the game was running, even though it wasn’t actually being used. Windows 7 is supposed to generally reduce the memory consumption of Aero, though.

Yeah, Vista wasn’t great about memory management, for sure. Windows 7 is much better about it, at one point I had a stick of 1gb die on me, but I barely noticed going from 4 to 3gb. Later though, I put a 2gb stick in (and destroyed my dual channel) and my performance rating on memory went from 5.5 to 7.2 - even with a slow stick of 2gb in there. Quantity is DEFINATELY more valuable than quality here, eveidently.

Quitch · 2011-06-30T13:56:50.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

Yeah, Vista wasn’t great about memory management, for sure.

lol, wut?

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-06-30T14:25:05.000Z

Quitch:

lol, wut?

What?

Equisilus · 2011-06-30T14:31:32.000Z

Ah, Denmark DLC is on sale on Steam so I grabbed that (just the civ, not the scenarios since I don’t play them). I think I’m going to have to play Civ5 this weekend and leave off some of my other games, just to see what all the changes since I last played have done to the game.

TheWombat · 2011-06-30T14:41:14.000Z

I eventually picked up the Mongols, the Danes, and the Spanish and Incas. They do a pretty nice job on the different Civs, though I still suck royally.

Aeon221 · 2011-06-30T15:07:35.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

What?

Blips · 2011-06-30T15:11:12.000Z

Is there a hole in the wall or is that his nose!?!?!?

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-06-30T15:14:35.000Z

I’m honestly just confused - Vista really DOES have serious memory management issues, it sounded like Quitch didn’t agree, but it’s hard to tell. I’m not 100% sure I get what “lol,wut?” actually means… :(

Aeon221 · 2011-06-30T15:27:14.000Z

Blips:

Is there a hole in the wall or is that his nose!?!?!?

en.m.wikipedia.org

Kilroy was here

Kilroy was here is an American popular culture expression that became popular during World War II; it is typically seen in graffiti. Its origins are debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s – a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching the wall. "Kilroy" was the American equivalent of the Australian Foo was here which originated duri...

Blips · 2011-06-30T15:55:42.000Z

Aeon221:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(graffiti)#section_2

I was being sarcastic :P

Jason_Townsend · 2011-06-30T18:39:02.000Z

I really hoped this Civs-as-DLC thing would blow over on the basis of sales vs. outrage. No way I’m being a party to this sort of crap. Just say no to annoyingly game-detracting nickel and dime DLC.

Equisilus · 2011-06-30T18:43:39.000Z

Jason Townsend:

I really hoped this Civs-as-DLC thing would blow over on the basis of sales vs. outrage. No way I’m being a party to this sort of crap. Just say no to annoyingly game-detracting nickel and dime DLC.

Funny thing is that the civilizations have been the only DLC I’ve purchased for any game ever (aside from new tables for Zen Pinball). For me, the couple of bucks is worth the extra variation.