System requirements · PC
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization PC system requirements
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization needs at least a processor listed as “1.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent”, 512 MB of RAM and a graphics card listed as “DirectX 9.0c-compatible 64 MB video card with Shader 1.1 Support or better”, on Windows® 2000/XP/Vista.
For the recommended settings: a processor listed as “1.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent”, 1 GB of RAM and a graphics card listed as “128 MB Video Card w/ DirectX 9 support (pixel & vertex shaders)”. It takes 900 MB of storage.
Minimum and recommended requirements
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows® 2000/XP/Vista | Not listed |
| Processor | 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent | 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent |
| Memory | 512 MB RAM | 1 GB RAM |
| Graphics | DirectX 9.0c-compatible 64 MB video card with Shader 1.1 Support or better | 128 MB Video Card w/ DirectX 9 support (pixel & vertex shaders) |
| Storage | 900 MB | Not listed |
| Sound card | DirectX 9.0 compliant sound card Same for both: minimum and recommended | |
| Additional notes | Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization DirectX(r) version (included on install) | Not listed |
How demanding is Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization?
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Memory: No PC game we track asks for less minimum RAM than Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization (512 MB).
It is on our list of low-end PC games (4 GB of RAM or less).
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Storage: Larger than 5% of the 1,852 games with a storage figure (900 MB).
It is on our list of small PC games (under 5 GB).
Compared with the minimum requirements of every game that has a requirements page on gamekeys.deals. We compare memory and storage only: processor and graphics card names cannot be ranked reliably from Steam's text.
Other platforms
Mac
| Minimum | |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.1 |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo CPU |
| Memory | 2 GB RAM |
| Graphics | (ATI): Radeon X1600 Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 8600 |
| Storage | 1 GB free disk space |
| Additional notes | 2.4 GHz (VRam): 512 MB Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires broadband connection. DVD-ROM Drive Macintosh mouse and keyboard ATI Radeon X1600, X1900, 2400, 2600, 3870 NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800, 9400, 9600, GT 120 Apple original CPU’s only, CPU upgrades not supported. Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported. This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive) |
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