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Chieftain
Nothing worse than installing the patch 1.09, playing on a Pentium D (3 GHz) with 1 GB RAM and downgrading to 71.89 and still crashing every couple of turns (huge map, medium graphics, 3 hot seat players, and 10 AI players).
Matthias73 said:Hi Everybody
My problem is, that the mouse (USB) is freezing after several turns, sometimes it's possible to play 30 minutes and sometimes it's only possible 2 turns or none. Sometimes it's possible to save the game using the keyboard and restart the computer regularly and sometimes I have to reboot. I have tried many things to find a solution for this problem (drivers, graphic settings, etc), but without success. Should i wait for the patch or has anyone a solution?
thanks
Matthias73, Switzerland
My system
AMD Athlon 1800+
MSI RX800SE
512 MB RAM
Yamaha SW1000XG Soundcard
dankovci said:I am having some video issue similar to what King David is describing. When zoomed in to the detail level, all I see is blackness with the exception of towns, units and resources. Anything that overlays the base tile is displayed, but the base tiles are all black. If I zoom out, to the level where the clouds are visible, the base tiles become visible, but the units, etc. are no longer visible at that level ov view. Also, the leader views only show disembodied teeth and eye - somewhat cool but rather disconcerting to see teeth hovering in mid air. I tried updating every driver I could think of, I reloaded directX, I applied the art pack patch, nothing. I am using a 1 year old Dell computer that has basic on-board intel video. It has 96 mb memory and has been up to the task of everything else I had thrown at it until this game came along. Any ideas (other than going out and buying a $300 video card to run a $50 game) would be appreciated.
As an aside, I am not certain I like the new interface. Having been an avid civ fan (including the spectacular Alpha Centauri) since nearly the beginning, I am having a hard time swallowing the new interface. It appears to be very cluttered and pop-ups come at me from every direction wheter I am interested in what an icon does if it just happens to be between where my cursor and and where I want it to go. And while much of the graphics are quite stunning and detailed, others are quite cartoonish and out of place. And the civilopedia looks like a childs picture matching game, its quite visually assaulting. Call me old school, but I much prefer the older games to this one, but if I can get around the video display issues, I will perservere and give this game a chance to see if it grows on me.