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I have a confession: I am a Civ junkie. I was actually introduced to the series with CivII. From there, I just played the crap out of this series, and still do. It's one of those series where I go months and maybe a year without playing it, only to binge on it several hours a day for the next couple of weeks.

I just love CivII, and CivIII was a massive readjustment. For those set in their way, it may have been a little off-putting, and there was a steeper learning curve. However, once one could get past the trepidation, one realizes that CivIII hold very well on its own. It can still keel people glued to the game every turn. Like with the previous title, you always tell yourself "Just one more turn" at 11:45PM before you realize that several hours have passed by and its now 3:30AM in the morning and you have work that has to be done.

Not surprisingly, CivIII runs very well under VMware Player running WinXP. As with several other games, I originally tried to run this under 86Box with Win98, but the performance was just too slow for my liking. Since I recorded this session before SoftGPU was released, I didn't test the game on that setup. However, because CivIII doesn't use GPU acceleration, there is no reason why this game shouldn't run under a Win98+SoftGPU+VBox setup. It's just I didn't want to record again knowing that if I did, the game would last anywhere between 10-14 hours spanned over multiple days. I just can't make commitments like that anymore.

VMware Player 17 is virtualizing a x86 multimedia PC with a single core processor (AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core Host with each Core running at 4.2GHz), 3GB of RAM, and a VESA Compatible display with 3D Acceleration Enabled. Windows is running at the screen resolution of 800 by 600, 32-bit color depth. The VM also has a HD audio device, and an AMD PCnet NIC. Windows XP SP3 is installed with the Plus!98 "Inside My Computer" theme that was copied over from a Windows 98 installation.

Songs Used:
Maestro Tlakaelel By
Jesse Gallagher
YouTube Audio Library

Software Used:
Recorded With OBS Studio
Composed In Kdenlive

Hardware Used:
PC equipped with a
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
6 Cores Running At 4.2GHz
AMD Radeon RX570 GPU
Windows 11