Soldato
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- 14 Mar 2011
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Hey all,
Thinking with the lockdown being what it is and his Birthday coming up I might get my Dad a copy of one of the Civ games as I'm sure he would really enjoy it... however his laptop isn't exactly a powerhouse nor is he particularly technically capable (and even ignoring the current lockdown I live too far away to visit and help much) so trying to decide whether it will work without too much issue (and/or whether it might be a sensible move to go for Civ V rather than VI if that would perform better - yes yes, I know VI is a bit marmite, I like both personally)
Anyway, the laptop is a Lenovo z580, which has an i7-3520M, 6Gb RAM and unfortunately I don't think has any sort of graphics card, so will just be the Intel HD4000. Any chance of that being a vaguely playable experience? I can advise him to avoid playing on a huge map with lots of CPU players and to set all the graphical options to low.
Thinking with the lockdown being what it is and his Birthday coming up I might get my Dad a copy of one of the Civ games as I'm sure he would really enjoy it... however his laptop isn't exactly a powerhouse nor is he particularly technically capable (and even ignoring the current lockdown I live too far away to visit and help much) so trying to decide whether it will work without too much issue (and/or whether it might be a sensible move to go for Civ V rather than VI if that would perform better - yes yes, I know VI is a bit marmite, I like both personally)
Anyway, the laptop is a Lenovo z580, which has an i7-3520M, 6Gb RAM and unfortunately I don't think has any sort of graphics card, so will just be the Intel HD4000. Any chance of that being a vaguely playable experience? I can advise him to avoid playing on a huge map with lots of CPU players and to set all the graphical options to low.