Sid Meier's Civilization IV system requirements

Before buying Sid Meier's Civilization IV for PC don’t forget to compare system requirements, provided by game developers, with your system configuration. Usually, minimum system requirements mean the configuration, that will allow game to start and normally work on the minimum quality settings. If your PC reaches the recommended requirements, you can have a stable gameplay with high quality settings. If you like to play on ultra settings, you must have hardware better, then specified by developers in recommended system requirements.

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Minimum system requirements:

Windows 2000/XP;
CPU 1,2 GHz;
256 MB random access memory;
Videocard with 64 MB VRAM;
Sound card, compatible with DirectX;
1,7 GB free space on hard disk drive;
DirectX 9.0с.

Recommended system requirements:

Windows 2000/XP;
CPU 1,8 GHz;
512 MB random access memory;
Videocard with 128 MB VRAM;
Sound card, compatible with DirectX;
1,7 GB free space on hard disk drive;
DirectX 9.0с.

Aside from comparing your PC configuration with Sid Meier's Civilization IV system requirements don’t forget to always have updated video drivers. You must always download only the latest versions of stable drivers – try not to use beta versions, because they might have some bug, not yet found and solved by developers.