Recent content by Mendel

Thanks, Cromm! I've got a 1gb stick and a 512mb stick. Old memory. So old, I don't even remember what kind it is. I'll try pulling the 512 stick when I get a chance. Anything is worth trying right now.

I've had Civ IV since its inception. I've given up on it several times because of this problem. I'm back again. With my older AMD processor and nVidia 4200Ti video card and the Asus motherboard on-board audio, the basic Civ IV just doesn't cooperate. It will play along fine for a bit, then...

I'm excessively old-school. I voted 'Other'. Does anyone other than me remember 'Master of Magic'? What was nice about that game was that the leaders had different abilities and the various nations also had different abilities. The combinations were far more than most of the other Civ-style...

This specific patch idea has improved Civ4 performance dramatically for me. Since I put this in (Friday), I've been able to play Civ4 for stretches longer than 2 hours at a time. It has not locked up or crashed to desktop since. It has not fixed the wonder movies, however. Now, I can try to...

In almost every game I attempt, I get several 'crash to desktop' errors every single game. It's not unusual for a single epic game to require me to reload from the auto-save 8+ times. I am extremely dismayed that the developers put out one patch rather quickly that addressed many problems...

I'm sorry, Soren, but the SDK really won't help fix the bugs that cause me to crash to desktop, or graphics lockups or other issues that I've needed fixed since day one. Isn't there some way to seperate the 'additional' features like the SDK and Pitboss from the bug fixes? I've migrated to...

The latest patch seemed to make a stab at some of the technical problems, but I don't really see that it improved the basic game. Some of the gameplay (specifically, city support cost) appears to have changed to the player's detriment. It almost seems that Firaxis wants every player to use the...

Thanks for the advise so far. It seems I'm having really bad luck on Temperate worlds, by getting wide expanses of grasslands, deserts and plains to start. Without nearby forests, chop-rushing anything isn't viable. One of the other things I'm seeing with Epic scale that appears to be a...

I'm having trouble when starting with a Temperate world. It seems that everything at the early game takes far too long to build, even with optimizing the hammer production in the city. I've seen some games where I've only managed to build 1 warrior, 1 scout, a barracks and 1 settler (usually...

Does anyone have any information on patches to Civ IV beyond the 1.09 patch? I still crash to the desktop, and occasionally Blue Screen WinXP. The game is unplayable for me in its current form without a save-game every turn.