System requirements

[SamBC]

The system requirements are finally revealed!!
http://steamcommunity.com/games/289070/announcements/detail/892100538370620761

Minimum

OS: Windows 7 64bit / 8.1 64bit / 10 64bit
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i3 2.5 Ghz or AMD Phenom II 2.6 Ghz or greater
MEMORY: 4 GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: 12 GB or more
DVD-ROM: Required for disc-based installation
VIDEO CARD: 1 GB DirectX 11 Video Card (AMD 5570 or nVidia 450)

Recommended

OS: Windows 7 64bit / 8.1 64bit / 10 64bit
PROCESSOR: Fourth generation Intel Core i5 2.5 Ghz or AMD FX8350 4.0 Ghz or greater
MEMORY: 8 GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: 12 GB or more
DVD-ROM: Required for disc-based installation
VIDEO CARD: 2 GB DirectX 11 Video Card (AMD 7970 or nVidia 770 or greater)

Other Requirements

Initial installation requires one-time Internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include Steam Client, Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 and 2015 Runtime Libraries, and Microsoft DirectX. Internet connection and acceptance of Steam™ Subscriber Agreement required for activation. See www.steampowered.com/agreement for details.

Mac system requirements have also been published (by Aspyr) at https://blog.aspyr.com/2016/10/04/sid-meiers-civilization-vi-faq/

Operating System: OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) and MacOS 10.12 (Sierra)
CPU Processor: Intel Core i5 (4 cores)
CPU Speed: 2.7 GHz
Memory: 6 GB
Hard Disk Space: 15 GB
Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 6790
Video Card (NVIDIA): GeForce 775M
Video Card (Intel): Iris Pro
Video Memory (VRam): 1 GB
Peripherals: Macintosh mouse and keyboard, Steam Controller (optional)

Feel free to discuss these and ask questions about what fits in them. Not that you're likely to get official answers, but you'll probably be able to help one another out a bit.

[SamBC]

They've only added Iris Pro on Mac, not on Windows.

[mvon007]

Opps didn't notice that part. Makes sense as their low end 15" has only that, crazily lacking a dedicated card.

It's a tricky thing given the prices of some of the high end 13" machines, like the Dell XPS 13 gets up to over $NZ3,000 and by the sounds of it won't run this very well. And the Macs are even more expensive and far more out of date.

[keith_dackson]

Originally posted by RRW359:

Oh, sorry. I still think people shouldn't complain much if they game on a laptop. They chose to sacrifice upgradability and reliability for portability.

Man oh man. Are you dense? I bought the machine for portability because I travel a lot. It was not purchased only for gaming. And in 2013, this was a top of the line laptop.

There is much more to the world than games. The games are a stress relief, not my reason for existence.

Would any other industry create software that at least did not have some sort of "backwards compatibility" to be able to run without having to make upgrades to the base platform?

Yeah, I know this is a philosophical discussion, and it might just be a little over your head. But there is a fairly large segment of the population who might just be fed up with the whole "let's make the game work on the absolute best stuff there is available right now, the incremental cost over and above the list price of the game be damned!"

[SamBC]

Even in 2013 it wouldn't be top of the line if you were actually looking at gaming capabilities. Maybe top of the line in sense that it was the top of its product range (the original meaning of the expression), but laptops built with gaming in mind have dedicated GPUs. And did 3 years ago, too.

[Targonis]

Originally posted by keith_dackson:

Originally posted by RRW359:

Oh, sorry. I still think people shouldn't complain much if they game on a laptop. They chose to sacrifice upgradability and reliability for portability.

Man oh man. Are you dense? I bought the machine for portability because I travel a lot. It was not purchased only for gaming. And in 2013, this was a top of the line laptop.

There is much more to the world than games. The games are a stress relief, not my reason for existence.

Would any other industry create software that at least did not have some sort of "backwards compatibility" to be able to run without having to make upgrades to the base platform?

Yeah, I know this is a philosophical discussion, and it might just be a little over your head. But there is a fairly large segment of the population who might just be fed up with the whole "let's make the game work on the absolute best stuff there is available right now, the incremental cost over and above the list price of the game be damned!"

You may be missing the whole issue when it comes to this stuff. Short version: there are certain things that MUST be present for the game to work. The fact that Intel has always had sub-standard support for DirectX has penalized those who buy computers with Intel graphics built into them. If the game REQUIRES DirectX 11 support in hardware, and your machine doesn't support that, then that is the issue. If you have it, then things will be slow for you, but it SHOULD work.

Still, keep that in mind. It is like the people who bought a Nintendo Wii complaining that the other consoles had games they could not play, because the Wii was far below the technical capabilities the game developers wanted to put into their games.

[RRW359]

Originally posted by keith_dackson:

Originally posted by RRW359:

Oh, sorry. I still think people shouldn't complain much if they game on a laptop. They chose to sacrifice upgradability and reliability for portability.

Man oh man. Are you dense? I bought the machine for portability because I travel a lot. It was not purchased only for gaming. And in 2013, this was a top of the line laptop.

There is much more to the world than games. The games are a stress relief, not my reason for existence.

Would any other industry create software that at least did not have some sort of "backwards compatibility" to be able to run without having to make upgrades to the base platform?

Yeah, I know this is a philosophical discussion, and it might just be a little over your head. But there is a fairly large segment of the population who might just be fed up with the whole "let's make the game work on the absolute best stuff there is available right now, the incremental cost over and above the list price of the game be damned!"

I actually kind of agree with you when it comes to multiplat games that need extremely powerful specs to run, but if you think about it, the jump in requirements from civ 5-6 is about as severe as office 2010-2016.

[Dwizzle]

running Civ Vi

I have a hp pavilion dv6-6b47dx which I bought to run Civ V. From what I see it doesn't have a good enough graphics card to run VI on "CanIrunit.com. Do you all think I can run it on my system?

[SamBC]

Originally posted by Dwizzle:

running Civ Vi

I have a hp pavilion dv6-6b47dx which I bought to run Civ V. From what I see it doesn't have a good enough graphics card to run VI on "CanIrunit.com. Do you all think I can run it on my system?

Telling people what your system specs are, rather than the model number, would make it easier for people to help you. Otherwise they either can't help, or you're expecting them to do the looking up for you, in the hope that that model can be found with Google.

[Dwizzle]

Good point. here are the specs:
2.4GHz/1.5GHz VISION A8 Technology from AMD with AMD Quad-Core A8-3500M Accelerated Processor
Microprocessor Cache 4MB L2 Cache
Memory 8GB DDR3 SDRAM (2 DIMM)

Memory Max

Maximum supported = 16GB


Video Graphics

AMD Radeon HD 6620G Discrete-Class Graphics


Video Memory

Up to 4085MB


Hard Drive

640GB 5400RPM)


I have a hp pavilion dv6-6b47dx which I bought to run Civ V. From what I see it doesn't have a good enough graphics card to run VI on "CanIrunit.com. Do you all think I can run it on my system? [/quote]
Telling people what your system specs are, rather than the model number, would make it easier for people to help you. Otherwise they either can't help, or you're expecting them to do the looking up for you, in the hope that that model can be found with Google. [/quote]

[SamBC]

Well, however much they call it "discrete-class" graphics, that's still integrated, so it's limited to system memory speed and using the same memory lanes. However, I think that has full DX11 support, so I wouldn't expect it to refuse to run - it may just run quite poorly, graphics wise. You can always play in strategic view to offset that.

[Dwizzle]

Thanks Sam for your expert advice. I do however wonder why you locked my other post. It may be redundant, but I'm trying to get information from a variety of sources before I make an investment. I took your advice and presented my question in a clear way and you blocked the chance for getting that question answered. Probably because you are annoyed, but is that a good reason to deny me a chance to make an informed decision?

[SamBC]

Originally posted by Dwizzle:

Thanks Sam for your expert advice. I do however wonder why you locked my other post. It may be redundant, but I'm trying to get information from a variety of sources before I make an investment. I took your advice and presented my question in a clear way and you blocked the chance for getting that question answered. Probably because you are annoyed, but is that a good reason to deny me a chance to make an informed decision?

No, it's because this is the thread to ask about system requirements, and redundant threads get cleaned up.

Happy to answer questions, but I should also note that arguing with moderation is not allowed.

[[BW] Olof]

Will this one run Civ VI decently?

Integrated Intel HD Graphics 620
512GB SATA3 SSD
8 GB DDR3
Intel® Core™ i5 7200U Processor

[SamBC]

Originally posted by BW Olof:

Will this one run Civ VI decently?

Integrated Intel HD Graphics 620
512GB SATA3 SSD
8 GB DDR3
Intel® Core™ i5 7200U Processor

Given that it doesn't mean the minimum requirements for GPU, I wouldn't expect it to run well. You could refer to the article linked earlier in the thread where someone with a press preview tried it on a machine with recent Intel integrated graphics.

[Strategia]

I know I asked this before, but I have an late 2013 Intel Iris Pro w/1536 MB. Is that at least in minimum specs?