Sid Meier's Civilization III, commonly shortened to Civ III or Civ 3, is the third installment of the Sid Meier's Civilization turn-based strategy computer game series. It was preceded by Civilization II and followed by Civilization IV. The game offers very sophisticated gameplay in terms of both mechanics and strategy. Unlike the original game, Civ III was not designed by Sid Meier, but by Jeff Briggs, a game designer, and Soren Johnson, a game programmer.

Civilization III System Requirements

Recommended Requirements

Processor: Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon MP
Graphics: AMD Radeon Xpress 1200 Series or NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE
System Memory: 128 MB RAM
Storage: 1.5 GB Hard drive space
DirectX 8 Compatible Graphics Card

PC System Analysis For Civilization III Requirements

Civilization III requires at least a Radeon Xpress 1200 Series or GeForce 6200 LE to meet recommended requirements running on high graphics setting, with 1080p resolution. This hardware should achieve 60FPS. Make sure your GPU can run DirectX 8 or Civilization III won’t run. In short you need a 16 year old PC for best Civilization III performance.

FPS System Benchmark

200+ FPS

High

Graphics Card

GTX 1060

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Where does Civilization III rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: Management, Strategy, Turn-based, Historic

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Civilization III System Requirements

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Recommended Requirements

Intel CPU

AMD CPU

Nvidia Graphics Card

AMD Graphics Card

VRAM

RAM

Direct X

HDD Space

GD Verdict

Pentium III

Athlon MP

GeForce 6200 LE

Radeon Xpress 1200 Series

256 MB

128 MB

DX 8

1.5 GB

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Civilization III PC Release Date:

30 Oct 2001

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Civilization III vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

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CPU

Core I7-5775R 4-Core 3.3GHz

6202%

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 480X 4GB

43233%

RAM

13GB

10056%

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