Any One Still Playing This Game?

[Makinus]

Of course i still play!

I occasionally play some other games, but 90% of the time i either play SEIV or Baldur´s Gate 2, two classics that simply don´t age for me...

In fact, i´m in the middle of a medium game with slow research (10 times slower research production) and small AI bonus using TDM, where i´m at war against 3 AIs and allied with 1 other, and i still need to meet the other 15 AIs in the game (well, 14, as 1 appear to have been eliminated before i even meet it)

My copy of SEV finally arrived last week, but i played a few turns and got tired of the long processing times, so i stored it for when i have a better computer (at least 2 more years since i need to finish the payments of my new house first).

BTW: i´m with a 1.73Ghz processor (forgot the brand now), with 512MB Ram and a 256mb video card and a 7200rpm HD running WinXP Pro, what i should do to reduce turn processing times (both in SEIV and SEV)? Buy more ram or a better videocard?

[Q]

I do still play SE IV although at the moment less than I thought I would.
I like very much the new combat emgine of SE V, but when the still numerous bugs or limitations frustrate me I return to SE IV. In the end the quality of the AI will decide if I play more SE IV or SE V.
SE IV is a game I modded to my likings and I am not sure that I will learn to do this for SE V, especially if it involves the AI.

[Gandalf Parker]

To be fair, if you compare SEIV to SEV then you need to do it using the vanilla clean-install version of SEIV. I actually did play a fresh install recently and personally I do think I enjoyed it more (I definetly played it longer) than my copy of SEV.

I suspect that I will not be thrilled with SEV anyway but I withhold my final judgement until I can play it as the same game I have in SEIV.

[Fyron]

Video cards have nothing to do with processing times, since there is no rendering going on. RAM will only help if you notice it begin maxed out in the task manager, with excessive page file usage (enable the virtual memory column to see the total memory the app is using). The surest way is a new CPU.