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Civilization V is the first game that supports DX11 multi-thread rendering

DasReviews writes: "One of the big aces of DX11 was its multi-threaded capabilities. DX11 would enhance the scaling and would be quite beneficial to all those CPU bound games. Ironically, there wasn’t any game that offered proper DX11 multi-thread rendering till recently. Hell, even Nvidia hadn’t included any command lists to their drivers about the multi-thread rendering. Everything is about to change though, as the first 270.xx ForceWare drivers have finally enabled the full support of it..."

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Shuklar5194d ago

Now if they could only work on the multi-threading of the AI scripting. Waiting 20-90s per turn once you reach higher level games is annoying as f*ck

lzim5194d ago

that's why you play RTS games. As well why CIV is garbage compared to Rails! the world needs Rails 2 with dx11 love.

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It's Official; Someone Has Sunk Over 20,000 Hours into Civilization V

Civilization V continues to be one of the most popular grand-strategy games you can play on Steam, for about three years.

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mandf894d ago

I know the shame. Not this game but I have about 5 different games with humiliating time in them.

sadraiden894d ago (Edited 894d ago )

It's about 4-5 hours a day, every day since launch.

Edits: bad math initially.

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15 Best Strategy Games for Low-End PCs

Love strategy but your processor and graphics card doesn't love you? The best strategy games for low-end PCs have you covered.

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How ideas of civilisation have shaped gaming

Philip Boyes:
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Civilization 2. I played a lot of strategy games in general, but having a deep love of both history and sci-fi, the epic sweep of Civ 2 from prehistory to the stars held a particular appeal. I loved taking my little people from their huts and ziggurats to the world of science and advanced space-flight.

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