steffeeh :
How much RAM do you have atm? And if you load a Civ map (not blank) and open up Task Manager, how much RAM does it say you're consuming?
16 GB is more than enough as said above. You won't have any problems with too little RAM with having 16 GB unless you run unoptimized games.
Even 8 GB could be enough for such game in general, though I'm not that experienced with Civ RAM consumption, hence why I ask.
Now I have 12 GB RAM 1600MHz DDR3. Civ 4 uses 2,5 GB of it, CPU is AMD Prenom IIX4810 2,34 GHz, CPU usage is 44%, but game is not fast
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Civ 4 uses mostly 1 CPU cores
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Video is
GeForce GTX 750 Palit KalmX 2GB Edition!
1)The shortest point is not the RAM!
2) Maybe video card is the shortest point. I want to make that game(civ4) run faster! Civ6 is nightmare slow on my machine.
3)or maybe faster CPU may result to faster Civ4 game play, even that Civ4 uses just a single core