Advanced Setup = CRASH

[Archwizard]

I have an HP dv7 Pavilion Entertainment Notebook w/ Intel Core i7 Quad Core 1.6GHz, 6 GB RAM, NVidia GeForce GT 230M w/ 1GB VidRAM and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

I am currently playing version 1.0.0.167 without any mods.

So after not playing for almost 2 months, I decided to try and fire CiV back up and see what 2 months worth of patches had accomplished.

Not much apparently.

I opened the game, chose Japan in Basic Setup and then clicked on Advanced Setup. The game then proceeded to crash, leaving the screen unchanged, but everything frozen with the "CivV has stopped working" dialogue box in the background, only accessible via alt-cntrl-del and starting the task manager, then forcing CivV to close.

This is the same exact type of bug that I was experiencing back with 1.0.0.20, so I guess I'll go back to playing Dragon Age: Origins now, which is a fantastic RPG (probably the best I've ever played, and I play a lot of them) and is also almost bug-free.

Sorry if this post is a little bitter and rambly, but I can't help but feel I got screwed by Firaxis/2kGames on this, and I'm tired of being nice about it.

I hope this bug gets fixed some year, I may or may not find out about it.

 

[The_J]

Is it "only" the advanced setup, or also the normal play now option?

 

[Archwizard]

No idea. That was the very first thing that happened upon trying to play again, I haven't bothered trying to relaunch the game, because if I can't even set up a game to play how I want, why should I bother?

 

[The_J]

Would be important for testing, because it would be quite a suprise if only that one option didn't work.

 

[prismnights]

I have the same problem. civ crashes on advanced setup screen, but it will also crash for any screen during game like the science adviser or city production screen

 

[Petek]

Please post your DxDiag file.

Are you playing vanilla Civ5 or G&K?

Also, verify your game cache files (Steam --> Library --> Right-click Sid Meier's Civilization 5 --> Properties --> Local Files --> Verify Integrity of Game Cache). It's normal for some files to be reacquired the first time you run this. Keep running this procedure (without starting the game while doing so) until no files are downloaded.

If this doesn't help, try switching from DX9 to DX10/11, or vice versa.

If that doesn't help, try lowering your video options.

Do any of these steps help?