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[freethought]

To start, i have not bought/played a computer game in close to a decade, actually, probably more than a decade now that I think about it.

I'm heading to Korea for my second tour of duty as an english teacher in about a month and I figured that I would bring a game over, the game in question is Civilization 4. I have a macbook, 1.83 ghz and a GB ram. The system states its min requirements are 2.0 ghz and a gig ram.

My question is should I opt for Civ 3 or can my machine handle Civ 4? The last time I was playing with video games was on a pentium 1 and I believe it was 60 mhz and so I have no idea how closely min requirements need to be followed anymore.

[muggie2dammit]

[freethought]

thanks for the reply.

After I posted i continued my search and found that the macbook due to the shared graphics will/does not handle Civ 4 well. This being the case, I will be purchasing Civ 3. This purchase does raise another question, though, that being will there be conflicts in the mac Civ 3 which was put out on the old processor, and running it on the coreduo?

[cubanlord]

check this site out. It's pretty spot on for some of the games I've checked:

http://www.srtest.com/referrer/srtest

[cubanlord]

[freethought]

yeah, it's the intel coreduo processor. My concern is that between the less than suggested processor, combined with the shared graphics memory that it'll have trouble running. I was addicted to civ as a 12-15 year old, and though I certainly plan on doing 'other things' when I get back to Korea, I figure a little civ will help pass the time. I just want to make sure that I have a functioning version of civ.

[cubanlord]