Crash in game - Vista, BTS, NVIDIA Quadro, Thinkpad R61

I have lately purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad R61 (it's a laptop) with the following specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.00 GHz
RAM: 3 BG
OS: Windows Vista Business

Graphic card: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (128 MB dedicated)

CIV: Bts patch 3,13


I have no problem,installing or initialising the game, and I can also play the game, sometimes for more than an hour - but regularly the game crashes, and stops the computer totally. On the screen there suddenly appears several small green lines, and the picture gets blured. It is still somewhat clear what the screen shows (except for the text) , but the game is frozen, as well as the computer. I can't do anything but to hold down the power button...

This has happened on mods, on huge maps, on small maps, early game, mid game and late game - so that's not the issue.

I've downloaded the latest dirctx (directx_nov2007_redist) from Microsoft, that didn't help either

I've tried to do changes on the graphic card settings, but same result.

I have the latest driver for the graphic card, newer than the driver mentioned on lenovos site...

Please help - I've played it a lot on my hold laptop, but it's worn out now

Btw.

I've also tried to uninstall and reinstall all the way.

Installing CIVIV, then patch 1.29, then 1.74

Then BTS, then 3.02, then 3.03 and finally 3.13

I have the same problem. I have an Nvidia Quadro video card in an HP 8510w Portable Workstation (powerful laptop)

I am running Windows XP Pro, 32 bit with 4gb of memory. The problem as you described it is the same. I'm running the August 9 (or is it aug 15 or so) revision of the video drivers, which is the most recent HP offers for my computer.

While I don't have a solution for the problem, Interestingly enough, after holding down the power button a few times and killing the power, I actually found that the video drivers are apparently crashing, but the OS appears to be in-tact underneath. While you obviously have to reboot to use the computer, try using keystrokes to shut it down (ie. Control-Esc / windows key), then use the arrows and enter key to navigate to shut down or restart. (you may want to figure out the keystroke order to shut down the PC before you actually have a crash!)

On very rare occasion, I get a blue screen instead of this problem, and it lists the nv_(i forgot).dll file. So it's clearly a video driver issue.

I'd be interested to find out if you have the same problem.

My video card is an Nvidia Quadro FX 570M

Welcome to CFC

please post your dxdiag results

Since the crashing. After skimming some other posts and seeing some success with rolling back drivers, I have rolled back my driver to the previous (1st and only previous release, 05/25/2007 date) release and have had no crashes. However, I have not given it enough time really to be sure. I just played for a few hours in single player, and I've played a number of hours of multi-player... would not rule out the problem being gone though... but it has not replicated yet either. I'm still posting the results incase anyone is interested... this is with the OLD revision drivers which *apparently* work better... (I'll know for sure in a few weeks after I play more multiplayer games with against my wife)

As a note to the 1st poster, you mentioned you are using new drivers, even newer than your PC vendor had.. Try rolling back to a previous driver, even the 1st release of the driver. It's sometimes a risk to put drivers on the computer which the PC vendor has not yet "tweaked".

Keep in mind that I am on an HP computer, the original user was on an IBM? Could be different issues w/same symptoms.