Recent content by happycat

Update to my previous reply to your suggestion: I have now tried it, plus "dumbing down" everything in the graphics settings, turning off my vc, and it still gets the occasional black screen and cannot recover from it. Interestingly, if I run the game in DirectX 9, it doesn't crash---once in a...

Thank you, I will try that.

Patch installed, played two turns, then crashed (black screen, game cursor still remains, sound still audible). Started game again, and so far played to 1000 AD without any problem. The black screen issue seems to occur (both before and since patching). I'm running Win 7 on a 2.6 ghz 2gb ram...

I just intalled the new nvidia beta driver, and it seems to have resolved my black screen issue. Every few turns my display would turn black, although sound and cursor would still exist. Since installing, I played about twenty turns with no problem, which is a record. I'll keep you posted...

As others here have already said, very frustrating to have these crashes. I'm running a middle of the road dual core system with a couple of gigs of RAM and a gig of video memory. The game runs fine for a few turns, and then all of a sudden the screen turns black. All that remains is the...

England will be my first game; using a real world map---I enjoy trying to recreate British North America (and hopefully NOT losing it to the colonists.):king: