Recent content by Perplexed009

Wonder of Wonders -- updating the driver for the video card made a difference. I can complete wonders now without a crash, and game play is smoother. Thanks Quintillus and Mr. B for taking the time to make your suggestions, it made a difference! Appreciate it...

Q, thanks for the suggestion. The video card is running with an old version of the driver, since I recently had to do a clean re-install on XP. I will try and update the driver and see if that makes a difference on game play.

All good suggestions in the above post - thanks. Tried them all, but unfortunately the game still crashes when the wonder loads, or tries to. I think you put your finger on the nub of the problem, Mr. B., which is that even 512 MB RAM is not really adequate to run the game. I'm surprised that...

Thanks for the suggestion, Mr. B. In answer to your question, I am playing the "plain vanilla" version of the game - the CDs are out of the box, and I haven't (as yet) downloaded any patches or updates for the game. Looking over my post, I thought it might be helpful to describe what I mean...

Hello Civ Fanatics, I am looking for some help with a crash issue. I am playing Civ 4 out-of-the-box (no downloads, updates or add-ons), and the game is freezing and then crashing when one of my cities completes a wonder. Specifically, this has happened with the Hanging Gardens and the Great...